Every week, we'll be featuring a guest post from the travel writers behind Worth the Drive, a blog featuring nearby getaways, festivals, and sweet travel deals on NBC Bay Area. 

All sorts of news has been burbling out of the Monterey area. Monarch butterflies! Whales! Butterflies and whales spotted on the same day! This is the kind of news we like - nature-oriented and ending in exclamation points. But we also like current happenings that involve the word "free."

The good people at the Monterey visitors bureau alerted us that the Monterey Museum of Art is free through the end of the year. That's right. Pay no admission and get some culture to boot. Score.

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