Tuesday August 3
Well today was Camarillo to Gilroy via Hearst’s Castle and Big Sur.
It was a long day as we got to the Hotel at 5pm after leaving at 7.55am.
Hearst’s Castle is absolutely amazing. Owned by 1920’s newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, he bought every bit of art he could find – 2500year old Egyptian statues, 16th century Italian and Spanish art and installing a mosaic with 1.5 million Murrano glass tiles in an indoor swimming pool that no one wanted to use – s0 he said the staff could use it.
Well today was Camarillo to Gilroy via Hearst’s Castle and Big Sur.
It was a long day as we got to the Hotel at 5pm after leaving at 7.55am.
Hearst’s Castle is absolutely amazing. Owned by 1920’s newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, he bought every bit of art he could find – 2500year old Egyptian statues, 16th century Italian and Spanish art and installing a mosaic with 1.5 million Murrano glass tiles in an indoor swimming pool that no one wanted to use – s0 he said the staff could use it.
The buildings and grounds are amazing and from his front door he could see 40 miles into the distance and everything he saw, he owned.
Then onto US Highway 1 (The Pacific Highway right up the coast past Big Sur, an absolutely magnificent wild coastal area on the highway. Only pictures can tell the story and even then not completely.
We then continued our drive to Gilroy, the garlic capital of America, which you can verify by the steak Dianne air when you enter the town.
A long but amazing day.
Adrian forgot to mention the dead skunk in the middle of the road stinking to high heaven! Actually more then one. Ben is surviving being with his parents 24 hours a day!
With only 1hr 20minute drive to San Francisco tomorrow, we are almost there
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