Wednesday, 7 May

Julie is up early and walks all over town including out to Morro Rock.

Road to Morro Rock
Road to Morro Rock

We all take turns with the single bathroom and go out for Breakfast. Here is another bonus from yesterday, we have vouchers for a full breakfast from the second rated restaurant in town! That turned out to be another $53 saving.

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Cute Tea Service
Cute Tea Service

Corned Beef Hash and Eggs for me Corned Beef Hash and Eggs for me[/caption]

Chili Throwdown lots of chili with jack and cheddar cheese. Fried onions make it crispy for Tom
Chili Throwdown
lots of chili with jack and cheddar cheese. Fried onions make it crispy for Tom
Fruit
Fruit
For Julie: Salmon Rushdie Toasted rye open face with house smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers and super thin red onions topped with sprouts.
For Julie: Salmon Rushdie
Toasted rye open face with house smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers and super thin red onions topped with sprouts.

A very bad pun. Anyway, we really enjoyed that Breakfast.

http://frankieandlolas.com/

We go back to the Motel to pack up and go. We have a spare bottle of wine which we have Pat give to the owner of the Motel and he is very grateful. Of course, I am still being lead out as a total cripple. We are to drive to Santa Barbara for our last night in the USA. It is not very far away, so we decide to go to Solvang on the way. The first stop is the Split Pea factory where I have participated in the following photo several times since we first went here in 1961.

Happea and Peawee
Happea and Peawee
And Again
And Again
Still Cute
Still Cute

We drive into Solvang which I remembered as a small, cute Danish town. Well, now it is much larger with faux Danish architecture everywhere. Not really interesting to me at all. After walking around for a while, we drive into Santa Barbara proper. We check into our Motel which is quite OK, albeit Tom has to lug our suitcases up the stairs. I decide to have a rest while the girls go out over town. It is not long before Pat is back, I used the term “Julie left Pat in her dust”.

An impressive "local tree" which turns out to be an Australian Moreton Bay Fig
An impressive “local tree” which turns out to be an Australian Moreton Bay Fig

There is music noise from the cafe below for which I was concerned about for getting to sleep that night, so I complain to the Front Desk. They do something about it and the music has stopped before we go out.

For dinner we are going to Bouchon, the fifth ranked restaurant in Santa Barbara.

http://www.bouchonsantabarbara.com/homepage.php

I start with French Onion soup
I start with French Onion soup
Seared Mustard-Glazed Local Black Cod (Medium) Yukon gold potatoes, shiitake mushrooms, pickled carrots Dominguez Farms Rainbow chard & rock shrimp
Seared Mustard-Glazed Local Black Cod (Medium)
Yukon gold potatoes, shiitake mushrooms, pickled carrots
Dominguez Farms Rainbow chard & rock shrimp
Herb-Crusted Yellowfin Tuna (Rare) white bean purée, Tuscan kale, cured Spanish chorizo, little neck clams, shellfish reduction
Herb-Crusted Yellowfin Tuna (Rare) white bean purée, Tuscan kale, cured Spanish chorizo, little neck clams, shellfish reduction
Duck for Pat - She did not like it at all, a pity
Duck for Pat – She did not like it at all, a pity
Pan-Roasted Skin-on Salmon (Medium-Rare) fingerling potato rounds, Green Farms asparagus spears, spring morels wild mushroom cream and pickled ramps
Pan-Roasted Skin-on Salmon (Medium-Rare) fingerling potato rounds, Green Farms asparagus spears, spring morels
wild mushroom cream and pickled ramps

Back to the Motel for a few more wines and then sleep ahead of the big day of flying tomorrow (actually 3 days).

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