Hearst Castle
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My dad mom and I went for a short trip up the California coast to see Hearst Castle. We stayed in a Hotel in Avila Beach. It was a windey road from the interstate through many oak trees. It was raining heavy when we arrived. The hotel was leaking like a sieve, buckets everywhere. Our room might have had an ocean view (but I could be imagining that) it didn’t really matter as it was so gloomy you couldn’t see the ocean just across the road anyway. There was also a golf course surrounding the hotel. I think it cleared up a bit, at least stopped raining, the day we left. Then you could clearly see the commercial pier that the oil workers loaded onto boats from to work on the platforms in the area.
The hotel room had a huge sunken/Jacuzzi tub. I’m sure my mom would have loved to give it a try, but the hotel strongly discouraged using water as they were in the midst of a severe drought. I remember that they had 1 or 2 TV stations of which nothing good was on.
I can’t recall any specific memories from the castle, however it did have a lasting subconscious effect, forever corrupting my vision of what a dream house would be.