highway 1/monterey

It's the thing on your bucket list that just never gets done.  It's the reason you say to yourself, "Man, I need to watch 'Citizen Kane' again sometime."  It's that giant mansion on the hillside that looks like way too much work to turn off and see.  But you should.  We did.  And, oh yeah, we'll be watching Citizen Kane again really soon.  Today we toured Hearst Castle.

What an amazing place.  You don't get to see a lot of the place, but what you do see is incredible.  Wow...what I wouldn't give to have been a hollywood star in the 30s and invited up to the mansion for the weekend.  

After our tour, we headed up the coast to Monterey.  Lots of curvy roads and beautiful scenery!

And, of course, since this is scenery AND suds, we capped it off with a beer or two at Cannery Row Brewery in Monterey.  Tomorrow we'll go looking for Steinbeck.