We packed up Olga 3, my car, and took a road trip up to Solvang this weekend.
About 1 mile away from home, I did not see a huge whole in the road and it sounded like the trip was gonna end right there, but luckily, all we had to do was to restore the iPod and the journey could continue.
Driving along the coast the whole way is not the quickest, but way more fun than the freeways.
The way up was not entirely adventure free, a Hummer in front of us on PCH blew a tire and if we had not payed enough attention we would have hit the tire and it would probably have ended a little ugly. The shotgunner in Olga 3 who is usually paparazzi style fast with the shutter did not manage to take a photo even though he had two cameras in his lap.
There’s an ostrich farm on Route 246 between Bulleton and Solvang, they charge $4.00 to enter the farm and an additional $1.00 if you want to feed the birds. They also have a sign up saying that you are not allowed to stop on the road outside to take pictures. We thought that was ridiculous, made a U-turn, pulled over and snapped some photos, just because we could.
Solvang is a small Danish town close to Santa Barbara, about 120 miles north of Los Angels. It is surrounded by wineries and I have no idea of why this town looks like it belongs on Jylland.
Ready for some wine tasting!
It is off season and the grapes seemed a little sad.
We were recommended to check out the Sunstone Winery, so we did.
Once when me and my sister went to London, we checked in to a dodgy hotel and the manager told us we absolutely had to check out and take a photo of the lovely view from the hotel window, he really pointed this out. It turned out the view was some construction and a train station. We did of course take a photo of the view. We had a similar experience at this vineyard; the lady that hit us up with the white wine insisted on her taking a photo of us in this archway. I did not pay attention to what she said, but she mentioned something about a postcard.
The Sunstone Winery cellar.
The first red wine cheer! Their wine did not really impress me.
There was this halo around the sun, I dont know what that was all about, but it was cool!
We heard good things about the Olive Garden in Solvang, so we payed them a visit, they had really good balsamic vinegars, in addition to the the wine off course!
Bought a bottle of the Twenty Mile -07 Sauvignon Blanc, it reminded me of grandpa’s home made elderflower drink. The girl behind the bar signed it.
Time to head home after an awesome weekend!
Ive been a million times but I learned something new today;
I had traveled 39 hours by plane, car and train, and the FIRST store I stepped into, I found this from my job.
