Community wealth versus private wealth.

I've never had that much interest in accumulating personal wealth even though I'm not in poverty.

My interest is more in community wealth, the buildings, parks, bike lanes and so forth.

Some community wealth is privately owned which is okay also. Even the wealth of billionaires, if it's serving the community; such as the buildings of a business. I have little interest in the fancy private homes, however.

On bike trips down the California Coast, I camped in San Simeon State Park a few times, but I never bothered to take the time to go up the hill to the Hearst Castle. That's the opulent mansion of the historic Hearst Family. It's now a museum and tourist attraction.

The big mansion I never bothered to visit at San Simeon.

Along south part of Big Sur Highway.

I'm headed down Highway 1 in San Simeon area 2006.

Ragged Point eatery. A place to buy food after the long Big Sur Road through mountains along the sea. One day's ride from Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park to San Simeon.

A beach near San Simeon.

A few photos from other trips in that part of the California Coast.

Big Sur in 2003, but then I had a camera with a date stamp that I never bothered to set. It stamped everything with 1994.

The kind of private property that's not open to the public. I took this for effect. A mansion view along 25 Mile Drive outside Monterey. 2003.

Bixby Bridge in Big Sur Area.

My friend Rick Segreda who joined me during my 2003 bicycle trip down the coast. Posing in a pedestrian tunnel crossing under the highway.