Once again the weather turned it on for us. The sun was shining and we were among stars. Santa Barbara is where some of America's famous people live. The Neverland Ranch is just north and star's like Ellen Degeneris, Tim Allen and others live in the foothills above town. Mum discussed with one of the staff how close the fires came in the middle of the year. You could see the line on the hill which was very close to town. It brings it home what damage fires do and...

As the sun shone we rose to a calm day on the west coast road. This morning we visited the castle on the hill, Hearst Castle. This was built by William Randolph Hearst in the early to mid 1900's and sits on the hills above San Simeon on the Hearst cattle ranch. The media tycoon, who then got into movies, built the castle in a position that he and his family used to ride horses to and camp in tents. He ended up building a Spanish styled "village" to show off to f...