Paso Robles

 

Day 4 of a four-day visit to the Bay Area in Northern California. Monday. 

Paso Robles :

Leaving the hotel in Monterey this morning we stopped by on Main Street ( Downtown) for breakfast before hitting the road again. No more ocean views but nevertheless a charming drive through the farming town of Salinas onto Highway 101 for more extensive farming for miles. Initial landscape was mostly vegetable and berry farms. There seemed to be a lot of activity everywhere. Some farms were being tilled, others sowed, and some harvested. If we didn’t have a reservation for lunch at Paso Robles to keep appointment for I would have taken a brief detour to check with the workers what they were doing. Today they were lucky this nosy woman did take their time with her questions.  I caught my husband and son whispering to each other something about me. They were silent when I asked what they were talking about but after much insistence and suspense they confided that there was a railroad running parallel to the freeway and it was good I hadn’t noticed it while admiring the farms😂( or I would ask to stop for a picture there) .

Closer we got to Paso Robles the flatlands were replaced by hills and vegetable farms by vineyards. Here also farm workers were busy working on the soil and training new growths on the grape vines etc. I couldn’t resist going talking to them 😃. They were more than happy to let me ride their ATV( all terrain vehicle) which they use going up and down the hilly slopes of vineyards to do their jobs. Other guests were more interested in getting cozy in the shaded patio enjoying their wines and food. They watched this crazy saree clad woman stand in the heat talking to the workers and later riding their vehicle 😂

 This was our second visit to Paso Robles in about a month’s time. Last month we were here to celebrate our son’s residency Match result. This time our daughter too was with us. She is coming home with us for a few days.

As I wrote this I was sitting back enjoying the last leg of the trip back home through the mountainous terrain south of Paso Robles passing through the oil fields and almond pistachio groves of Lost Hills. 

Saree is a cotton silk chanderi handloom in white with gold border and colorful leaf buttis all over body and matching colored floral design on the pallu.