San Simeon/Hearst Castle

On the right side of the blog is a new slide show featuring a few images from my tour of San Simeon. Apparently Hearst hated this being referred to as a 'castle' as he had a 'real' castle in Wales. This was his small ranch at 250,000 acres while his larger ranch was over a million acres. This is the inspiration for Citizen Kane and one of the greatest examples of excess I have seen. Still, there is something about a nice library...