 Day 4 - San
Jose to San Luis Obispo |
After loading our luggage and Xbox back into the car, we are
heading to the Winchester Mystery House. However, in what is becoming regular
for the Odd Tour, we find ourselves once again getting lost! Strange
cities and us just seem to have a thing about getting lost at the moment!
Several roads and freeways later we finally find the place and head on in.
The Winchester Mystery House was built onto Sarah Winchester, the wife of the
second president of the Winchester Repeating Arms company. It is said that
after her husband's death the spirits of those killed by the Winchester firearms
came to her and told her if she didn't continually build onto a house, the same
fate would happen to her and she would be killed. So for 35 years she built onto
this house. It's like no house that we have ever seen before.
Strange rooms and doorways everywhere. Everything seems to be
inter-joined. Windows inside the house, or doors going to nowhere.
It's an amazing sight! We took two tours, one of the house and another of
the outer buildings and the basement which had some spooky dark hallways.
Next it was back on our way down the Pacific Coast Highway. Twists and
turns met us at every moment. It was sure an experience traveling this
road in Justin's car. The 48 year old suspension meant holding on around
corners many, many times. Finally we arrived in San Luis Obispo and took a
drive past the Oddworld building. Somehow we managed to get on a road that
was taking us back North again... so guess what, we had to turn around! We
found a Denny's resturant and had dinner. Although in the stall behind us were
two women... well if you could call one of them that, as she looked and sounded
like a male and talked loud on top of that. Justin amused us by making
actions and funny faces! After that unexpected mileage earlier, we thought
it time to check the gas. Justin found that we had only 3 ohms of gas
remaining, so we were frantically driving around trying to find a gas station
that was open. When we did, Justin had to push through a group of people who were all eating packets of chips! That was strange! Our next
challenge was to find a hotel room for the night. We seemed to be greeted
by No Vacancy signs everywhere, and those that didn't have them told us they
were full up. Finally we had no choice but to spend the night in the
car. Justin took the back seat while I took the front. Parked in an
apartment building's parking lot, we managed to catch some somewhat
uncomfortable sleep!
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