Santa Maria - Solvang - Santa Barbara - Oxnard - Malibu - Santa Monica to Buena Park (Los Angeles) - Saturday 31 December 1983

Fine - sunny - warm - still.

A nice hotel, long corridors, good service.

Drive 45 minutes to Solvang for 1 and a quarter hours. Quaint Danish town. Toured Mission - interesting, and looked at shops.

Interesting drive through Santa Barbara - so clean and tidy, everything looked so nice, lots of trees. Stopped at Mission and on beach. Would love to go back. Too expensive to live though.

Lunch at Oxnard at Lobster Trap was OK.

Drive through Malibu and Santa Monica to Ambassador Hotel where Bobby Kennedy killed.

Jim (tour driver) took three of us out to Anaheim then we got taxi to hotel.

Best Western Buena Park (8 nights)
2 days Unlimited Passes to Disneyland
1 day Unlimited Pass to Knotts Berry Farm

Monterey - San Simeon - Santa Maria - Friday 30 December 1983

Overcast - clearing - mild. Rain as we left.

Nice US breakfast - pouring as we left. Tiring bus trip inland as Big Sur road closed.

Lunch near Hearst Castle - very nice. Hearst Castle is impossible to describe - has to be seen to be believed - would love more time there. Tour 1 very good - an incredible place.

Interesting journey through to Santa Maria Inn. A lovely place. I had swim in pool and spa, walked to local shopping centre. Huge but excellent dinner at the inn. Excellent service - steaks nearly 2" thick.

A tiring but interesting day.