Rich, to bad you won't be there a week earlier. There's a great car show on May 15th -
http://www.wheelsandwaves.com/ and the Bay Area Cobra Club plans a nice weekend around it. There will probably be about 20 cobras there, mostly from northern california with a few of us from So Cal.
We stay downtown Sanata Barbara at a pretty plain jane motel, but they reserve the underground parking garage for us and everyone likes the location being able to walk to bars, restaurants, bars, shops and, of course, the bars.
Matt