My "live-in gardener" and I took a 16 day road trip and made it home safely, but exhausted.
We left July 2nd for California with the first stop at my favorite cousins home to celebrate the 4th with her family.What a perfect way to start, by just sitting by the pool and eating good food.
Then we headed south, staying one night in Bakersfield. In Bakersfield we visited a sweet shop we have heard of for years and came home with some peanut butter chews. As we traveled along you will see it was all about the food we could bring home with us. But the best part were seeing special people along the way. I guess you could say it was a memory lane experience with a farewell to some friends and places along the way.
Our destination was a resort near San Diego where we had been gifted a week's stay. From the resort we could venture out each day and that is what we did. I will say by the time we got this far south we were ready for a rest and I had a back and neck ache that just wouldn't go away. Thus said, we persevered and explored places with an hour of the resort. There was the San Diego Zoo African Safari, San Juan Capistrano Mission, Coronado Island, tea with a friend at Historic San Diego.
African Safari:
Coronado Island:
There was a delicious seafood lunch right here.
Tea with my friend, Val, in historic San Diego. What a sweet historic area. I loved the vintage houses on a quiet street and the tea at Coral Tree Teahouse was a delicious.
Agapanthus (Lily of the Nile) grows profusely in Southern California. The gardens around the historic house were beautiful kept and gorgeous.
Once we started heading north there were more adventures that I will share another day.
Did I say exhausting? Ha! Yes! My neck hurt so bad I thought I was sick; so I was glad to be heading north again and heading home. It would take about a week yet to get home, but I believe I enjoyed the second week more just touching bases with people along the way, a few hugs, and some good produce to bring home.
I am feeling better now and glad to be home. More pictures will come soon.
Sending love,
Marilyn
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