JCZ, thanks but I think $2,185 a night mite be just out of my price range. But I will check out the castle.
LOL.....I said it was "over the top".....guess I should have said "way over the top". When the owner gave us the tour, he asked me "can you believe that there are people that pay that much a night?". I replied something to the affect that he would and he told me "I'd never pay that much....$2-300 a night is about my limit....I built this place to make money, not spend it". I thought that was intersting, considering that he is the owner.
When you're headed north....in Santa Cruz take Hwy. 17 east towards San Jose a few miles to Skyline Drive north. You can take Skyline all the way into San Francisco.
North of San Francisco, take one of the roads over to the ocean (through Guernville is a nice road to Jenner By The Sea). Take Hwy. 1 north along the coast to Ft. Brag, Ca. There you'll want to take the Hwy. over to Willits and Hwy. 101......that is an incredable motorcycle road! Up Hwy. 101, in the Redwoods, you want to be sure to take Avenue of the Giants. It's a two lane road that basically parallels the freeway, that takes you through the redwood groves.