Letters, I Get Letters....

I recently got an e-mail asking about an old house I posted pictures of a long time ago. The house is along highway 101, just south of Pismo along the California coast, and the young lady who wrote me would like to know exactly where the house is so that she can go see it herself. The problem is, I can't remember the precise location of the place.

I used to take my stepson up to see my sister in Salinas, California because she's an orthodontist, and was providing him with braces for free. (My sister is wonderful that way.) Salinas is a good 266 miles away from where we live in Ventura, California, and my stepson and I drove up and back in a day approximately every six weeks for quite some time. We got to know some of the landmarks pretty well, and on the last few trips we would stop off at some of the more interesting ones and take a few pictures.

When I wrote about this house before, I only posted what I felt were the best pictures. I want to post all the pictures I have today so that the person who e-mailed me can have them. When she told me she uses one of the pictures as her wallpaper for her desktop, I felt I should make every picture I have available to her.

So, after the jump are all the pictures I have of the house. You can click on each picture to get to the full sized original. This is the only view of the house that was accessible to us. There was a huge gate at the front of the drive warning off trespassers. Such signs never stopped me before, but there were people around who might have taken exception to me and my stepson climbing over the fence.

UPDATE: I found the house! I used the satellite feature of Google Maps and found it. Here are screen captures of the site using Google Maps...

You can click on these to get a larger image. The house is circled in red, the tree seen in my pictures is circled in green, and the main gate in yellow. This shot shows how to get there from the 101 freeway. And, I was wrong, the house isn't south of Pismo, but is south of Arroyo Grande. You can see the house easily from the freeway, so if you are heading north, and you get to Arroyo Grande without seeing the house, you have gone too far.

Now, go ahead and look at all the other pictures below...

Posted by Jeff at November 30, 2006 7:55 AM