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To Morro Today

2017-11-16

We had planned to head to Yosemite today, but the forecast was heavy rain followed by snow and freezing conditions, with Winter Storm warnings recommending travellers take an extra flash light, food and water in case of an emergency! Needless to say this didn’t sound very appealing, so we took advice from Ray and Gary and headed south instead to stay at Morro Bay, just near the famous Hearst Castle. This turned out to be a delightfully quiet fishing village with few tourists but lots of barking sea lions and sea otters floating langorously on their backs. Very charming and relaxing. The town is dominated by a large rock that was once a volcanic plug, and a natural gas power generation plant from the 1950s, which produces enough electricity for 1 million homes. It also seems to have more public toilets than the rest of America put together- big tick from us!

We now plan to visit the Hearst Castle tomorrow morning and then drive to Santa Barbara for two days - in other words, do what we had originally planned before the Big Sur road collapse earlier this year forced us to change our itinerary.