Last day in LA and finally we hit the road

Friday

Well original plans we only had booked the apartment until Thursday but we still hadn't been to Universal Studios! So, a couple of emails and we extended our stay for another night - reduced cost too. I thought it better to do now. Universal Studios (US) was better now instead of of in a couple of weeks when Disney Land beckons.

So, we headed off at 10am, to swap the convertible for the Jeep - the Jeep gave us more room and plenty of comfort for being on the road - leather seats, in built GPS, and Internet, plenty of power and heaps of airbags. After the swap over, we spent the day at Universal Studios.

Universal Studios was so much fun and Tony had never been to anything like this.

LA has been great, and we'll be back as there's still Disney Land and we fly home from here in mid October. But now we hit the road and head north along one of the worlds great drives - The Pacific Coast. Once packed up, we headed north with no real zdestination planned for the night.

We reached Santa Barbara, for Brunch. A very picturesque town with a very Spanish arcitecture influence. Lunch was in one of the restaurants on the Santa Barbara pier - seafood, yum. I figured that a drive till 4.30 - 5pm, would be enough which took as to a little coastal town of Cambria. We of found a great place, that had a couple of rooms available, to stay on the beach.

Linda, Sophie and went for a walk and found a group of seals lazing about on the rocks a couple of four hunded meters from where we were staying. Very cool. Later in the evening we had dinner at a local bar. Again yummy, seafood and meat.

Saturday

In the morning both Linda and I jumped on the net to see if we could get and apartment in San Francisco. We wanted a zcouple of nights but we couldn't get anything for Sunday, so we grabbed little house for Monday and Tuesday nights. So, that gave us another day on the Pacific Coast Highway which turned out to be the best option anyway. There was so much too see. It took us all day to get a 150 miles to the Moneterey area.

We headed odd first thing to the Hearts Castle. A massive, massive house that the Hearsts' family built and donated to the state as a museum. It was incredible - all the art and historical artifacts gathered zand incorporated into the zaricticture or on display. The devotion to preserve the art and the building development is a great story in its self.

We then spent the whole afternoon in awe of the road hugging the coast and the views. There were plenty of stops for photos or in one place to see Sea Elephants basking in the sun.

Hmmm... because of the all the stops we didn't get to Monterey until 6.30pm, which left us with a problem finding accommodation. We needed up grabbing a couple of rooms in Salinas which is about 15km inland from Monterey.

So it's Sunday morning and were back to have a look around Monterey and then up to San Francisco.

 

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