WJ Adventures

A Photo Journal of Our Travel Adventures

Hearst Castle Tour

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Are you thinking about visiting the Hearst Castle? I highly recommend it. The castle has 165 rooms and 127 acres of gardens, terraces, pools and walkways. The art collection throughout the property is extensive and impressive. I have been on two of the four tours available and liked them both. The best place for you to go to get information is the castle website (See below). They give you all the details you would need and have a place where you can purchase your tickets in advance.

Hearst Castle Tours
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Location:
750 Hearst Castle Rd.
San Simeon, CA 93452

Take a look at some pictures we took from the Upstairs Suites Tour.

View on the drive up the hill.
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Looking at the ocean from the castle.
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The grounds.
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The Roman pool.
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The Doge’s Suite (bedroom and sitting room). What do you think about that ceiling?
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The Main Library.
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The Gothic Suite.
This was Hearst’s personal study where he worked… not a bad office.
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The Duplex Bedroom. This ceiling is the first thing you would see every morning after you woke up.
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The Celestial Suite
This room sits at the base of the bell tower and has a matching room in the other tower. Imagine the sound of the bells from this room 🙂
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Northern/Central CA Camping Roadtrip

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We went on a little California camping road trip.  If you are looking for a easy and beautiful camping excursion this is a nice one. We started in LA/Orange and drove straight to  Richardson Grove State Park. This was a beautiful site surrounded by the redwoods. From there we wanted a little beach camping so we headed to the coast. We worked our way down the 1 and stopped at three more places.

Here is a breakdown of some of the campgrounds we stopped at.
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Richardson Grove State Park
Caspar Beach Campground
Point Arena Lighthouse
Bottchers Gap Campground

The best part about this road trip was the variety of little cities we passed through to get to each stop. See the list above of just a few. We spent a few days at each campground and took our time getting back home. This is one trip you could adjust the time length as needed.

Bottchers Gap Campground

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Bottchers Gap campground is located on the northern edge Los Padres National Forest along the central California coast. The campsite is about 20 miles from Carmel.

Palo Colorado Canyon
Big Sur, CA 93465
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The road leading to Bottchers Gap is long, narrow and winding that cuts through a redwood grove. There are several houses along the road and it ends at the campground parking lot. All sites are on a first-come, first-serve basis, with no reservations accepted. Sites have a pit and a table only. Be warned there are no water bibs of any kind in the entire campsite and the bathrooms are terrible! I have no problem with pit style toilets but these look (and smell) like they haven’t been cleaned out since the 80s.
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Overall the campsite is not very enjoyable. The sites are very small and on a slant. Our site may look big in the pictures but it is really two next to each other. The views are decent but there is poison oak EVERYWHERE. Not just here and there but all in the sites, the trails, the bathroom areas, etc. You have to be extremely careful where you walk and forget about letting your dog more than 4 feet from you. That made for a very unhappy puppy. lol

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We brought abalone from our last campsite to cook here for dinner.

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