santa barabra was well worth a 3 day rest stop and then we left to go down the coast, still pretty coastal driving, got very hot suddenly, and we stopped for a long lunch having found a private cove we had to oay to enter at malibu , it was buzzing, wished we had time to laze under the umberellas on the sand after lunch but thought we best go try find out hotel on los angeles............. hit five lane highways and such heat 103 degrees and traffice ...

well arrived yesterday.............we drove from the dusty coast of cambria and cattle ranches as far as we could see................. decided to leave coast and cut inland...........stopped for a wee wee stop and a look around at SLOVANG.................youd think you were in germany but its actually a village that origninetd with danish settlers in 1900...............so everyone is a danish names and toms eyes wnet out on stalks at the view of the cake and pas...

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SO THE WINDS DROPPED AND SAN SIMEON IS OKAY WE ARE OPPOSITE THE beach, MTEL FULL OF CYCLIST WHO DID THE SAME ROUTE AS US YESTERDAY.................... sweet little vilage up the road to wander in.................mainyl stopped here to visit hearst castle of the randolph hearst, ( granduaghter famous patty hearst etc).................and so tomorrow we are doing that

well we leave asilomar today, the place is lovely it gorws on you and i can see why folk gather here for their meetings, the lodges are really beautiful...................... we leave to go down the coast to san simeon and visit the famous hearts castle, starngely the castle and also this place asilomar were created by the same architect..............brekky today we found out there was a silent dinning room for the non speakers.................toms wanbted to enr...