{"id":220,"date":"2003-04-02T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-03T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/word_press\/?p=220"},"modified":"2003-04-02T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-03T06:32:00","slug":"hwy-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/hwy-1\/","title":{"rendered":"HWY 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/040203a.jpg',800,170)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/040203a.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=800 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p>California&#8217;s mini Uluru [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ea.gov.au\/parks\/uluru\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a>]. The rock at Morro Bay [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.morro-bay.net\/visit\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a>]. Stayed here last night in a little seaside motel that had free videos. &#8220;Free Willy&#8221;, &#8220;Solarbabies&#8221;, and &#8220;Dunston Checks In&#8221; were some of the choices. I had asked about what movies were playing in town last night and the desk clerk rolled her eyes and said, &#8220;Chicago&#8221;. I was kinda disturbed that I agreed with her. She gave me directions in between hacking, coughing and spitting out street names. I think I found patient zero of the SARS [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/pages\/editorial\/public\/toc-sars\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a>] outbreak. Hit the road at 9:00 and pulled off to watch some surfers and their &#8220;chool bus&#8221;. Dude.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/040203b.jpg',800,251)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/040203b.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=700 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/040203c.jpg',400,300)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/040203c.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=100 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/040203d.jpg',400,300)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/040203d.jpg\" class=alignright WIDTH=100 border=\"1\"\/><\/a>Arrived in San Simeon about an hour later and took the bus up to Hearst Castle [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hearstcastle.org\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a>]. I learned that being flithy rich can be a good thing. For one, you can buy lots of statues of naked people. I also whispered &#8220;Rosebud&#8221; to myself throughout the tour. It&#8217;s hard not to. Stocked up on some &#8220;Hearst Castle Fudge&#8221; and headed for Santa Cruz where I was greeted by bad weather and a rainbow. And on a side note that I&#8217;m terribly proud of, the XM satellite radio [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.xmradio.com\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a>] installed in my car worked like a charm. Radio reception on HWY 1&#8230; who&#8217;d of thought?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/040203e.jpg',800,170)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/040203e.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=00 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/040203f.jpg',800,247)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/040203f.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=800 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s mini Uluru [LINK]. The rock at Morro Bay [LINK]. Stayed here last night in a little seaside motel that had free videos. &#8220;Free Willy&#8221;, &#8220;Solarbabies&#8221;, and &#8220;Dunston Checks In&#8221; were some of the choices. I had asked about what movies were playing in town last night and the desk clerk rolled her eyes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,33,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-photography","category-san-francisco","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-3y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}