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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.

I was just there a week ago.  No crowds, and all the tours had space
available.  No waiting at all.

Yes, it's a huge monument to vanity, but it was >not< designed to
attract tourists.  Far from it; when it was first started, Highway 1
didn't even exist.  At the height, he never had more than 6 or 8 guests
at any one time, and they had to be invited.

Sam