An update. In reverse order.....we are leaving Lake Nacimiento today (Tuesday), which is near a town called Paso Robles. Yesterday ( Monday) was a full day. We drove up Hwy 1 to San Simeon and Hearst Castle. The driveway is 5 miles long, to give an idea the size of the "cottage". Pretty spectacular to say the least. The maintenance cost is 9.5 MILLION per year plus the operating costs, wages etc. on top of that. That helps justify the $24.00 per person entrance fee. We also stopped to view to Pacific. The waves were rolling but not rough...very nice. We also saw the elephant seals at San Simeon beach....they really should lose some weight. Sunday was our arrival day here. Saturday we took in a visit to San Luis Obispo a town that looks like Yorkville used to. A very "in" place. Lunch was at a place called Madonna Inn....NOT the singer. It is all pink and very artsy. There is also an old mission there dating from the 1700's. It is unusual, due to the fact ,it is one of the very few that is "L" shaped. We had taken a VERY hilly and twisty route to get there in the hope we could see the San Andreas Fault on Friday...I don't think we did. It was interesting to see the change from desert to green foliage and grass in the Santa Margarita area. On Thursday,we had wanted to see the Borax mining operation, but there was labour troubl. However,we did go into the 20 mule team museum which showed the changes from mules pulling large convoys of wagons loaded with Borax ore across the mountains some 25 miles, comparedto today's modern methods. The signs at the beginning suggested that no vehicle combination be more than 30' from kingpin to rear axle. We are 49'overall. For more photos go to our photo albums at
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