(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/PCH_Near_Laguna_Beach.jpg)<br/><br/>(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20081226/architects-abroad/images/5e91d5d2-9249-42e5-8e59-3f9d80165924.jpg)<br/><br/>Just because the world ended doesn't mean life hasn't gone on. Far from it as it seems to be as the highways are still driven, still need to be watched as Californians pass around each other at frightening speeds.<br/><br/>Not long outside the city, and with the help of the highways, the suburbs hold their own stories and secrets. Some of Monterey's will be obvious to many, some will keep quiet long after the occupants are gone.<br/><br/>The schools of Monterey, both public and private, dot the landscape as the education system managed to make it through the plague relatively unscathed for now. Their blow comes later when the population collapse makes it that high up.