Tight curves and wide horizons: The return of Highway 1

Tight curves and wide horizons: The return of Highway 1

“We got our Big Sur buddies back,” said Brian Flaten, stirring a Negroni beneath a mounted moose head at Legends Bar in Morro Bay, California. At midnight on a recent evening, the dimly lit bar where Flaten is a bartender, beckoned drivers off Highway 1, long after the rest of the world had gone to bed on this lonely stretch.