San Simeon Travel Blogs

Hearst Castle is about 45 minutes away from where I live, but I had never been there. It somehow sounded like a very touristy place, and going there wasn't high in my priority list. Then, a close friend of mine who happens to be working at the castle invited me to visit there on the Thanksgiv…

These photos should accompany the earlier blog for Hearst Beach. This time we walked the trail in early spring and it was so gorgeous!! Enjoy the photos!

Figured out how to traverse the 1 without throwing up! The secret I figured out is to 1) not eat breakfast and 2) put your feet down on the floor of the car and clench your abs in the direction that you are swerving!So managed to make it to San Simeon with minimal discomfort! What a day to visit th…

The next day we drove along the coast with the beach and ocean nearby.  We enjoyed the trip all the way south to the Heart Castle. The weather wasn’t a whole lot better when we got there.  But at least it wasn’t raining. As you can see the pictures, it was still very low clouds and…

I was absoolutely dumb struck and humbled...the following is a brief history taken from the webiste. In 1865, George Hearst, a wealthy miner, purchased 40,000-acres of ranchland that included the Mexican Ranchos of Piedras Blancas, San Simeon and Santa Rosa. In 1919, his only son, William Ran…

I remember the day that Kelly told me we were going to San Francisco for a weekend. I was ecstatic!!! It was going to be the first time I got away...without my parents!  I read every site, I bought books and tried to plan our trip to a tee.  We decided we would head out early and make a s…

Northern California vacation "AMAZING"...

A nice chance to do something special   San Simeon   We have been to the coast many times and each time had one or another reasons not to take a tour of the Hearst Castle.  This time we felt we were in better shape and could do the steps and walking.  So we made a phone call…

After a terrible night of fearful driving, we made it to the hotel and were lucky to be alive, so we went for a visit of the Hearst Castle. This is a mansion/castle built by W.R.Hearst and it just amazing. It sits on 900 acres of land, on top of a hill with stunning vies of the ocean. The tour…

Just a short trip to Hearst Castle, the only castle in America (as I've heard) while visiting California. Oct'08 - Nov'08

LA - San Francisco - Sacramento - Lake Tahoe - Bodie - Yosemite NP - Death Valley - Las Vegas - Grand Canyon

a weekend trip along the pacific coast highway to a few exciting stops: solvang, cambria, hearst castle, and a few more

I had to start a travel blog to upload more pictures....so that's what I did.

After my brother's wedding in Fresno, we decided to take a trip to Morro Bay and drive towards San Francisco on the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). Wow, definitely different than the east coast beaches that I'm used to, the sites were beautiful

Today was our day to visit Hearst's Castle. We both had wanted to visit the legendary mansion of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. The mansion, perched on a hill, is the inspiration for Xanadu in the film Citizen Kane (of course, Hearst is the inspiration for Charles Foster Kane).&nbs…