Re: California dining advice needed.

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From: Bob Barnett
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 23:42

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Simon Belmont wrote:
> "Allan Schaffer" <allan@southpark.engr.sgi.com> wrote in message
> 
>>Plan stops in San Simeon/Hearst Castle
> 
> 
> I've heard a number of recommendations here to visit Hearst Castle.
> I always thought it was a tourist trap made even more tourist trappy
> by Awnuld's state park fee hike. It's just a big estate right? Also, is
> the estate's grandeur not attributed to its intent to bring in visitors?
> There is nothing wrong with spectacles built to fit a purpose, but to
> self-spectacularize for the sole purpose of being a spectacle is vain.
> Maybe I'm totally off-base...I've never been there or experienced it.
> Perhaps it represents/symbolizes some important historical element
> I don't know about. I will not knock it until I try it, but my casual
> observation tells me not to value its "importance" all too heavily.
> 
> 

Can the preconceived ideas. Hearst Castle and the acreage is an amazing 
place...and the Park Service tours are great.

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From: Bob Barnett <bob.barnett@charter.net>
Newsgroups: dfw.eats,la.eats,ba.food
Subject: Re: California dining advice needed.
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 15:42:00 -0800
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