by iainandcai | Aug 25, 2015 | California
DAY TWENTY FIVE Still recovering from the kitsch-overload of Day Twenty Four, we got back in our ‘monster truck’ for the final leg of the honeymoon roadtrip — San Simeon to LA. We were going to be staying with Iain’s relatives in Pasadena for a...
by iainandcai | Aug 24, 2015 | California
DAY TWENTY FOUR We had saved the best for last. Our day started with a trip to Hearst Castle, a lavish mansion on the top of a hill overlooking San Simeon. Designed by Julia Morgan for the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the ‘castle’ was the...
by iainandcai | Aug 23, 2015 | California
DAY TWENTY-THREE By this point in the honeymoon we had been driving for three weeks so you would think that we might be tired of driving down the Pacific Coast but there was one place that could rejuvenate our roadtrip mojo… Big Sur! Unfortunately we...
by iainandcai | Aug 22, 2015 | California
DAY TWENTY TWO We were reluctant to leave San Francisco, especially since our trips to Alcatraz and Napa Valley meant that we had spent so little time in San Francisco proper. To help make up for this, we decided to take a quick detour up to the Haight Ashbury area in...
by iainandcai | Aug 21, 2015 | California
DAY TWENTY ONE Wine Tour! For Day Twenty-One, we booked a trip to four vineyards in the Napa Valley. Initially we were apprehensive about joining a formal tour — especially since we were being transported in a 40 seater coach — but we had a fantastic guide...
