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The Surfrider was built in 1953 as a motor inn and was later transformed to resemble a California beach house’s living room.

On the road rising to the Pyrenees, we stop at a posada, a roadside inn where strings of chorizo and peppers hang like wind chimes above the bar.

Right now, this stretch of the highway “is a great place to cycle,” said Diane Ramey, whose family owns the inn.

And plenty of themed merchandise — ranging from the typical stickers, hats and mugs to ultra-specific items like bath salts with branding from Lorelai’s inn — was available for purchase.

This week, the builders placed the uppermost beam on the 12-story inn set to be completed next September, in time for Super Bowl 61 scheduled to happen the following February at SoFi.