San Simeon in January
Spent last weekend in San Simeon, meeting with
family and friends from the southland. (Five of
us and two puppies shared one room, so we definitely
went the low-cost route!)
In Salinas, I saw an equipment yard with a bunch of
large cable spools in it. Then that darn Paul Simon
Song (slightly modified) about
"Me and Julio down by the spoolyard" got stuck in my
mind all the way down the Salinas Valley.
Near where you leave Salinas Valley and enter the
narrower valley of the Nacimiento River (near the
town of Bradley), there is a refinery and a bunch
of those praying mantis oil wells. Amazing design,
those things haven't changed a bit in 40 plus years.
Anyway, it looks like there are a lot more of them
than I had recalled. Might just be that I usually
drive by there in the dark. Weirdest thing is that
there are several way up on a ridge west of 101.
Maybe the drills can go deeper with today's materials
and techniques than they used to could.
Highway 46 has a sign "Rough Road Next 10 miles",
it was clearly earthquake damage.
Saw the elephant seal rookery at Piedras Blancas.
It has gotten so full that a dozen or two of the beasts
now spend their time on a public beach south of there.
There were kite-surfers and windsurfers walking out
past these huge animals. I'm sorry that I didn't get
some photos of that.
Visited West Ranch, and walked the puppies from one
end to the other and back. That bluffs trail is no
longer open to bikes :-( but now there are a bunch of
trails higher in the park that are open :-).
Sunday morning, my nephew Ben and I went swimming
in the hotel's pool. Monday morning, a co-worker
arrived from Boston, and told me that it had been
one degree Fahrenheit when he left Boston Sunday
morning.
10:59:29 PM
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