San Simeon Stories


San Simeon Elephant Seals; Running on Empty Through Beautiful Big Sur

San Simeon Elephant Seals; Running on Empty Through Beautiful Big Sur You would think we were old enough and knew better. But I guess we still like to live life on the edge. Not really. We set off from Morro Bay without filling up on diesel. There are few towns between Morro Bay and Monterey and as we found out, there was no diesel to be found ...


Hearst Castle

We had breakfast at the Copper Café at the inn and then proceeded up to Hearst Castle. Along the way we stopped by to look at the dolphins jumping in the ocean. We have a great photograph of our whale (rock) ;-). We took part in two tours of Hearst Castle, the battery in our camera died halfway into the first tour – that’s what we get for taking so m...