From Los Angeles I drove north on Highway one passing old missionaries until I reached the impressive Hearst Castle. The fairy tale mansion of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who died in 1951 was designed by architect Julia Morgan between 1919 and 1947 and is now a National Historic and California Historical Landmark. Unfortunately I couldn’t continue on Highway One because of a landslide but found a detour along beautiful empty hills covered with golden grass land until I reached San Francisco.
