We were on the road by 7h11 this morning. Nice to have the sun behind us to drive. There is quite the surf this morning. The road hugs the coast, it is quite windy, the breakers are right there. Sand dunes on right. Santa Monica Mountains. We drive through vegetable growing area - strawberries, raspberries. Pickers in the fields. Tomatoes. Oxnard, Ventura.
Did you know that there are over 34 million people living in California. Canada's population in one State!!
I think that my purple trees are 'accacia' but I have not had a chance to check on Google.
Our road continues and now we are quite mountainous with valleys on our right and the ocean on our left. Gorgeous scenery, cattle in the fields, soft hills. It feels like maybe what Scotland would feel like. Lompoc. Santa Maria, Nipomo, Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo.
Found a campground in San Simeon and then headed for Hearst Castle. Randolph Hearst was a very rich publisher who built his residence and guesthouses starting in 1919 and continued until 1947 when ill health forced him to abandon the project. He still had not completed Casa Grande at his death in 1951. It is quite the castle as you can see from the photos.
After returning to our Roadtrek, we decided to go for a drive up to where a rockslide had closed Highway 1 where we expected to drive thru to Monterey the next day. It was quite a ride on a windy cliff-hanging road. We didn't quite get to the slide as we thought we should be headed back for dinner before it got too dark. One interesting stop at the beginning of our drive was to look upon elephant seals laying about on the beach. Quite the spectacle.
That was it for the day....
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