I can’t believe there’s only one more night before Mum and I embark on our sixth Food Network tour. As always, we are planning to revisit some old haunts and try some new and unique places.
We are pretty much staying on I-5 with a few detours along the way and heading as far south as Arroyo Grande, California. We haven’t been to California since 2013, so we are both looking forward to going back. This is the farthest south we have gone – on our first trip we went as far as Carmel – and also one of our straightest as far as venturing off the beaten path. We have run into a few forest fires on our previous trips and I wanted to keep off the more remote roads. My one remote road that I did pick was CA SR-1 from Carmel to San Luis Obispo…which unfortunately may be closed due to an extremely large forest fire near Big Sur. We will be watching the updates and determining our route as we get closer to Carmel.
We are stopping in Portland on the way south this time – we normally stop on our way home – and also doing our Wine Country exploring later in the trip rather than earlier. Next Wednesday we will also be catching a play in Ashland at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
I hope this will end up being our best trip yet.
Thanks for reading and I will post again tomorrow about our day in Victoria, BC.
