…the classic motel monument to California kitch at it’s most exuberant and flamboyant – conceptualized and constructed by the butch cowboy builder of freeways, Alex Madonna in 1958 and the site of my parents ill-prepared 1968 honeymoon trip from a wedding in Santa Barbara – was a natural – very pink – pit-stop for us off route 101 on our way to the coastal adventures of highway 1 from LA to Saratoga today. (wikipedia)