Monday thru Wednesday – SF area and Gilroy area
Monday we decided to head back in to San Francisco . We still wanted to ride the cable car, go to Chinatown , and eat at Scoma’s. Rick and Janie drove and
this time they took their FastTrack so we sailed over the bridge and got into
the city very easily – until we got downtown!
But we made our way to the Hyde
St. Station (near Ghirardelli Sq.) and found a
very convenient handicapped parking spot and paid ($15. per person) for a day
pass which allowed us to get off and on whenever we wanted. We saw Lombardi St. and
made our way to Chinatown, where we jumped off and, after asking several
locals, headed for the Fortune Cookie Factory, where we watched them use these
really old machines to make round shapes which then were handed loaded with the
fortunes and formed into the cookie. Of
course we bought some as well as almond cookies before climbing back up the
steep St. to re-board the cable car. We rode it to Powell where we had to get off
and get back in a (long) line to head back.
That done, we went over to Scoma’s for lunch. This place is our favorite stop for a nice
(but rather expensive) meal. They didn’t
disappoint! All of us had the lunch
special catch of the day which was scallops in a saffron sauce. The BEST! Rick insisted on treating us as an
anniversary gift. Thank you Sir! We bought some more sweatshirts and t-shirts
on the way back to the car and headed home. The dogs were glad to see us (and
get out to go pee!). We skipped dinner
and snacked and then watched some taped shows before going to bed.
It’s Tuesday and our last day here….. We are done with SF so we headed out to
breakfast and then back to Sepay Groves, the Olive Oil store. For breakfast, we chose Huckleberry’s in Fairfield . This is a place similar to Orange County
Mining Co. in appearance but less pricey.
The breakfast was really good and a place we will come back to
again. Then we drove over to have the
girls get some more EVOO and asked more questions about the health benefits. That done, we headed back home but on the
way, since it was still early, we decided to pick up the dogs and head up to
Sonoma to check out that area. The drive was easy enough and we had the air on
but I guess that wasn’t enough to help Bailey.
She got carsick a few times. But Sonoma has a town square
with a park so we were able to get her out for a walk which helped on the way
home. Once we got back, Lydia and Janie
went to the laundry to wash the unlucky jackets from the car, and then went off
to the store to buy a few things they needed for our steak dinners
tonight. Tomorrow we have a short 102
mile trip down to San Juan Bautista (Gilroy
area).
Wednesday we slept in and then got the rig ready for
travel. We left about 10:00am and made
the trip down to San Juan Bautista and the Betabel RV Park. We got stuck for
about 20 minutes behind street sweepers on I-680 but otherwise had no
issues. We got set up in camp and rested
for a bit. Janie’s niece lives in Salinas and they came down
to visit for a while. We decided earlier
that we wanted to go to the Giant Artichoke in Castroville for dinner. We had been there before and remembered we
liked it. Jeremy and Stacy came with
us. The meal was ok. The artichoke soup was terrific! After the meal we drove back through McAlpine
Lake RV Park on the way home. We had
stayed there before but Janie didn’t remember it. Once w e returned we settled
in and watched TV before going to bed early.
Tomorrow we are going up to San
Jose to tour the city and go to the Winchester Mystery
House.
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