So we just spent a sleepy Wednesday driving the scenic route down to Julian near San Diego. Its a fun little place with a great bird store, an old gold mine and every restaurant has a massive pie selection.
The bird shop is for those who like myself have feeders in the yard. This place is crazy old lady heaven.
The shops are a bit kitch but is a fun day just wandering around and eating pie.
That was the only problem with the town. Now don't get me wrong I have nothing against old people and there were a lot. But when they're standing in front of me in a pie line taking FOREVER to decided on their goddamn pies in-between Obama bashing and talking politics. That's my breaking point. I made some not so subtle comments and noises all of which were lost in the volume of the one man asking the dumbest questions ever....they're pies for god sake!! Just pick a pie!
My mood did not improve when we sat down only to have the same group sit behind us saying grace over their pies! I know I know each to there own but move it along already.
There were some quaint little places to stay and its a good day trip.
After lunch we stumbled upon a tiny shop with stones, fossils, boulders and crystals. I was in awe of the huge piece if rock with what looked like forty fossilized fish swimming in a shoal. As it became clear I wasn't just another tourist wandering in and out of stores (which actual I was,) the woman who was manning the shop start to talk to us. Before I know it she's telling us about her life growing up in Africa. About the horrors she saw which is why she sort out the quiet little town of Julian where nothing really happens. She was taken but my fascination of the fossil and told us about a trip she'd recently taken to Hawaii with her daughters. They had been swimming when five dolphins had decided they want to play. She was misted eyed as she enacted one dolphin coming up in front of her inches from her face and just being with her. She said it was the most amazing experience if her life. I was blown away that this one simple moment was better than any other moment if what was clearly a long fully live.
If I wasn't a junky for day trips I would never have met her and heard her story. It one of the reasons I love to travel.
The Rhubarb and Strawberry Crumb is to die for. Its worth the drive just for that.
