In and around SLO II

 This post will share a few more of the intersting places around San Luis Obispo. 


Let's start with the Madonna Inn. A stop half-way between San Francisco and Los Angelese on Highway 101


which even got featured just a few months ago in the largest German Sunday Newspaper. 


Obvisously no point at staying there if you are already paying rent in SLO (and most likely above our budget...)


but the do have a restaurant and a nice cafe and this is actually a good value and a fun way to enjoy the venue. I went for the famous "Pink Champage Cake" (warning: on the menu it should say feeds 3-4 people...). Alex and his wife Phyllis Madonna co-created the Madonna Inn in 1958 and expeanded it sever times. 


They wanted guests to feel both comfortable and wowed from the moment they walked through the door. Pink was chosen as a staple of the brand because it’s a fun and uplifting color. 


Each rooms is different with a theme by itself, 


Looking at the basement with all the vinesand outside!


The next pictures are form walking around in SLO.


Ah Louis Store in San Luis Obispo, California, is historically significant not only as a surviving building from the historic Chinese-American community in San Luis Obispo but also through its identification with the Chinese-American pioneer Ah Louis, or On Wong.



The following pictures are from the Mission. The way the Spanish and later Mexicans got control of what is California today was by setting up a network of mission, connected by teh "El Camino Real". 



Every mission is about a days walk away. South you will work yourself through Santa Monica, Santa Inez and the well know Mission of Santa Barbara. 


From the mission into the park



over to the Art Museum of San Luis Obispo. 


My neighboor shared that every first Friday of the month there is a special event at the museum. 



When walking in you are greeted with a glas of vine


and it is all donation based. 


Saturday it was time for another Museum in San Luis Obispo



There is a Railway Museum, open only on Saturdays and run by volunteers. 


It is also an interesting part of the history. When the Southern Pacific Railroad was built between Los Angeles and San Francisco in the 1890s, the steepest and most demanding portion of the line passed through rugged country to the south before reaching San Luis Obispo. La Cuesta Pass required at least 6 horses so carriages could be pulled up and both San Franscico and Los Angeles were 3 days away. 



In 1894 the first trains from the North reached San Luis Obispo and it took a few more years to close tha gap towards Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.


This is the old Pullmann-Wagon

 
and the old luxury inside. 


From the Railway museum (5 minutes from our house) it is


a 10 minute hike to Teracce Hill with nice views over San Luis Obiso. 


The hill as part of the chain of 9 Morros that stretch from Islay Hill to Morro Rock



All of them are eroded cores of former volcanoes.


Another nice view just before sunset


and this is just a picture from one of our favorite pizza places. 


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