Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Travels of San Fransisco Continued

Hearst Castle - if anyone has ever seen this place you realize how amazing it is for someone to build something like this back during the depression era.

W. H. Hearst created his own Mediterranean mansion up in the hills of this beautiful area of California.
These are a couple of the amazing sites you see when you visit this place.

Front Terrace, overlooking the 2.5 mile driveway.
















looking up to the guest house from the terrace...
Guest house may I remind you....


















over looking the outdoor pool, resembling the Greek Columns with this massive out door pool.
I totally wanted to go for a swim that day....
















Before we made it down to Hearst Castle we drove through the 17 mile drive around Pebble Beach golf club.

Day was pretty cloudy and windy but we had a good time checking out the surf and the neat flowers in abundance.


































Sarah and Linzee walking up the path which lead them to the surf, very patient women to deal with both Andrew and I on this trip, lots of engineering talk for the entire drive, ha ha ha!!






















lone fir tree on the rock, a symbol of solitude and perseverance, the tree grew right up through a rock, no other vegetation, what power and determination....



















Again many pretty flowers all over the place....