San Simeon

Guest post from: Bruno Smith

I recently planned our drive up the California coast using my wireless internet Stockton connection. There are a few things in California that I have yet to see. This past summer, my husband and I found ourselves with some time on our hands. We decided that we were going to spend a week driving up the California coast. I did a lot of research on the internet before we planned our trip. There were some things that I knew that I wanted to see, but also some things that I wasn’t familiar with that I learned about over the internet. I wanted to visit Big Sur and the Redwood Forrest. Something that I learned about on the internet that I wanted to visit was in San Simeon, California. It is the Hearst mansion. It was built by the media mogul in the early 1920’s. It is a truly impressive compound. One thing that is really impressive about it is all of the European artwork and architectural antiques that are housed there. Most everything that decorates the amazing mansion was imported to America and bought at auction houses in New York.