I'm hesitant to share this one with you. Because I want to retire there. I want to be an eighty-something little bitty, tooling around there, volunteering at the local tourist hotspot.
Well, I'll share it anyway. It's a little place called Cambria, California.
Nearby is another great town called San Simeon. You may have heard of it. It's where William Randolf Hearst built "A little something" on a hilltop. La Cuesta Encantada. Hearst Castle.
Hearst Castle is a magical place. It takes you back to the heyday of the Newspaper Empire and you rub shoulders with the likes of Errol Flynn, Carol Lombard, Clark Gable and Charlie Chaplin. Rare and exotic works of art are preserved and incorporated into the place. More than 25,000 antiquities have been cataloged there. You can see tapestries by Ruebens, A Medieval dining room, Renaissance church benches and Egyptian artifacts strewn about the campus. And don't even get me started on the outdoor swimming pool. It's the stuff dreams are made of.
And you can go visit it!
And you should!
Why haven't you???
When you do go and visit, be sure to stay in Cambria. Walk downtown in the evening, down to main street and bask in the lovely and unique little shoppes. Enjoy the yummy cuisine and bathe in the sea air.
Like I said, when I'm eighty, I want to have a cute little bungalow on the beach in Cambria and spend my days as a volunteer there at the castle, climbing stairs and answering questions, spewing factoids and exploring that beautiful place.
I'm a believer.
Don't miss Cambria.
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