This is the same coastal area in the preceding photograph. What we are looking at could not be a road but is one of the trails which at that time were frequently the only access to many areas there, including the DeAngulo property whee I spent frequent short vacations. When I first stayed there there was no road in. The crews had been blasting out the road below. We walked five or six miles from Big Sur. And then I think it was almost a mile up from the ocean to their home. The coast road that was put through was supposedly part of the jingoism of William Randolph Hearst who claimed the area of the coast offered a place for the Japanese to invade and beat the drums to put a road in. Well, if the Japanese had invaded I don't know where they could have gone unless they'd invaded with mountain climbers. This land is so steep and inaccessible on both sides and rather impractical to maintain a beach upon. San Simeon was at the southern end of this road that was being blasted through, and of course there were very unkindly remarks that Hearst really only wanted the road so that it would go by his estate. However, Hearst didn't like tourists. San Simeon was a very exclusive place and hard to get up to. When Hearst was there you had to have permission to come. You stopped at a gatehouse, you went through various gates on the way up, and through large fields through which roamed wild, African animals. No one was allowed to walk on the land. Some were allowed to go on horseback but most had to stay in their cars. There'll be more later about San Simeon when I tape remarks about some of the early photographs I took there.