3 Regional identities 17 Language in use: Guide to California’s Highway No. 1 Read the text about California’s Highway No. 1. Some words are missing. Choose the correct word (A–L) for each gap (1–9). There are two extra words that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. There are a few great road trips that can … 0 almost anybody, a few that can instil a lifelong … 1 about what lies beyond the next turn. The road trip that made me love road trips was on Highway 1, also known as the Pacific Coast Highway, which stretches from Mexico to the town of Leggett in northern California but is perhaps most … 2 between Los Angeles and San Francisco. As a kid, I took that 380-mile journey several times in the sixties and seventies, when my parents drove my older brother and sister to college in the Bay Area. Highway 1 was the road to freedom, and the trips were like … 3 , with The Lovin’ Spoonful or The Doors on the radio, and the mist-shrouded mountains appearing like something out of Tolkien. Of course, it’s not only me. Highway 1 is the sort of road you see in car ads and movies, one that begs to be … 4 in a red convertible. It has stomach-dropping turns, wide, clean beaches and cliffs that plunge to the ocean. And just when you’re thinking, “enough with the drama already”, it offers up acres of soft green farmland – lettuce, strawberries, even the self-proclaimed artichoke capital of the world, Castroville. No wonder this highway is one of America’s unofficial pilgrimage … 5 – for beatniks, surfers, food groupies chasing the latest fresh taste sensation and thrill-seekers of all sorts. Last summer, when my husband and I took our East Coast-bred kids on a weeklong Highway 1 road trip from L.A. to San Francisco, I hoped that Ike, six, and Lucy, not quite three, would love it as I had. We decided to start off slowly with a two-night stop in Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara is one of those lucky places – lucky in its Mediterranean climate, its lemon- and lavender- and sea-… 6 air and its location, nestled between the Santa Ynez Mountains and a curve of coastline where palm trees lean toward the sea. It was even lucky, in a way, in the earthquake that destroyed the town in 1925, … 7 its civic fathers to build a planned city such as you rarely see in the United States, with a lot of red-tile-roofed Spanish colonial … 8 . On Stearns Wharf the first evening, we found a funky little novelty confection store, where we bought candy lipstick and gummy penguins. Ike and Lucy ate them while we looked back at the mountains … 9 straight and misty blue in the twilight, their foothills dotted with glimmering lights. Want to know how our road trip continued? Make sure to return next week to our second part of the series. (Travel and Leisure; adapted and abridged) A allowing E curiosity I rising 0 D 4 8 B architecture F driven J routes 1 5 9 C captivating G forceful K scented 2 6 D charm H movies L streets 3 7 5 ✔ Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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