San Simeon, CA

This is a place that made my spirit soarrrrr... but, I'm a firm believer CA is going down! So, even though I absolutely love this place (regardless of the tick populace) I will never move there.

It's a breathtakingly beautiful area, that is the best way to describe it. I drove through it in or around 1998. We stopped there for a few days because it was just too pretty to pass up! We slept at a state park that was so beautiful it was almost painful.