Inns Of California San Simeon

... on Friday. Drove<br>to the Hearst Castle entrance, pretty sure we had to pay to drive up to<br>it so we headed back to the motel to wash the car with Rich's boxers<br>and America's fairy liquid, didn't really make much difference! Went<br>back to Cambria for dinner then home to repack everything that had been<br>spread out through the car ready for returning it on Friday.<br><br>

... that we did not get the smell which sometimes is quite strong.<br> Just a bit further north and we came to the Piedras Blancas lighthouse. Established in 1875, this is still a working lighthouse. Tours can be arranged through the BLM office on Hwy. 1, but this time we just took pictures. We continued up, with Highway 1 climbing and becoming more narrow and curvy as we headed up to Big Sur. We didn't make it all the way there, as we ...

... is at the southern end of the bay, and usually I have stayed at the northern end.<br> The hotel is three stories tall with the ground floor being covered parking. We had our choice of parking places. There is a small standing balcony with a nice view of the bay and rock. The room is nice size, with a refrigerator and microwave. Across the hall is the breakfast room which we will sample in the morning. Nice for us, they have an ...

... that seemed to have reasonably priced vacation rentals. We sent out a few emails, hoping for a response in the morning...<br><br>07/11/2009 - We were woken in the morning by a call back from one of the property agents. She offered us a really good deal and said we could come down and look around a few of the houses they had available. We had originally planned to stay a bit longer in Monterey, but the hotel environment was really getting to us and the ...

... outweighs above and beyond the additional cost of $25!!!<br><br>We then took a walk along the &#8220;strip&#8221; of motels, checking out the restaurants and settled for the Sunset Grill over at Motel 6, where Azrael had a delicious chicken and garlic alfredo pizza, and I had a deliciously tender ½ rack of baby back ribs. The pizza was interesting.... they used garlic alfredo sauce in place of the normal tomato marinara sauce. Delicious but very rich and filling!!!

... uns und konnten sie am nächsten tag in vollen zügen genießen.<br><br>In San Simeon haben wir dann die berüchtigte 12$ Pizza gegessen. Ausgesehen und geschmeckt hat sie wie ein Küchenexperiment und im nach hinein bin ich froh, dass wir sie "to go" hatten. Ich glaube unsere Gesichter als wir die Pizza gesehen haben, waren Gold wert!!!<br><br><!--EndFragment--><br>

After three days of the fairly heavy mist that had dogged us since leaving San Francisco, we were a little undecided about whether it was even worth attempting The Big Sur, the world renowned 90-mile coastal drive from Monterey to Cambria. There seemed little point in braving the twisty windy roads if all we were going to see was white-out. However, the day dawned clearer than the preceding ones and we were cautiously optimistic as we set off from Monterey. <br><br>We ...

... br>left and right. The town of Solvang is a Danish culture community with<br>many shops, bakeries, and art galleris. The town's buildings are built<br>in the design which is set to remind you of Denmark. We visited one of<br>the bakeries here and sampled some of their delicious pastries and did<br>some shopping. We then headed on to Santa Barbara and walked along the<br>ocean and pier, Santa Barbara is a very pretty location.

... whoops, quick 3 point turn called for. Jane not impressed. Anyway the coast road is beautiful, its a single lane road that hugs the coast and crosses lots of tall bridges. A view of the Pacific Ocean crashing in on one side and forrested mountains on the other. Eventually we had to force ourselves not to stop at every 'vista point' as we only had one day to drive down to Santa Barbara. Stopped for a hike through at the Julet ...