Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Paso Robles recap

Here's the rig at Paso Robles, Ca. We are at the Wine Country RV Resort. It is a really nice resort. Just above the Miata hood you can see the hammock post at an angle.
Here's a pic of a tree being moved for the Hearst Castle.
Highway 1 is very pretty. Here are some hills and the ocean.
This is one of the three guests houses at the Hearst Castle. Bob Hope stayed here and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had a party at the castle on the rear patio for his wife two weeks ago. It was for her charity.

W. R. Hearst was eccentric to say the least. Whenever his plans for the castle dictated that a big oak tree was in the way, he ordered that it be moved and not destroyed. The workers would dig around the tree, cut the roots and pour a concrete wall around it and under it and then move it on rollers. They then had to break up the concrete, haul it away and fill in around the tree with dirt. In 1926 they moved a tree that required a concrete wall ten inches thick and thirty foot diameter around the tree. It was estimated that the tree, its dirt and the concrete weighed 600 tons. See the picture above.

Today we plan to travel south to Castaic. We will stay there one night and then move on to Anaheim for three days and then on to San Diego for eight days to see our kids. We’re excited about that. Last night we purchased a two day park pass for Disneyland and the California Adventure Park. We got a discount online and can go straight to the turnstile and not wait in a ticket line. We printed the tickets in our MH. Pretty cool huh? Kim is excited to go to Disneyland. I am excited for her.

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