Splash Cafe......MMMMMMMM

Well here it is Splash Cafe, known for it's award winning clam chowder. I have been enjoying their Clam Chowder since they opened in 1989. I read on their web page they serve more than 15,000 gallons of Chowder a year. It is best in a sour dough bread bowl but that is way more than i could ever imagine eating, so i always opt for a small bowl with a slice or two of sour dough bread on the side. It is the creamiest richest chowder i have ever tasted. I was really lucky the day i went i walked right in ........i have seen the line out the door and half way around the block.

My Me Day In Cali....

The day before i left to fly back to TX .......I was tired, i was irritable, i was ready for my big bathtub and my own bed.......so i decided on a ME day. I drove 100 miles for a bowl of Clam Chowder, to Splash Cafe in Pismo Beach CA. I snapped this pic while i was there of an empty beach on a Wednesday afternoon......did i mention it was 63 degrees and the wind was blowing like crazy. More to come later on my me day.....

Finally Home....

After being in Cali for a week i finally made it to my home town for a dinner out with the girls for Michelle's B-day. We had planned this dinner the minute we found out i was going to be in Cali. So Friday afternoon i sunk away from the hospital and off to Taft i went. We had a blast, but i stayed up way to late and had to get up way to early to head back to Bako.....but good news my father got to come home late Saturday evening.

Not so far from home......

There is one never fail thing i can find from cali when i need something from home.....produce!!! Today while i was grocery shopping i picked up a pint of strawberries.To my surprise when i got home i noticed they were from Santa Maria.....just about 15 miles from where my grandfather lived when i was a child and still has a house just a few blocks from the beach in Pismo Beach

After i got home from shopping i carefully picked what i thought would be the best strawberry in the basket...........for a split seconded after that first bite of fresh ripe strawberry....i was taken back to the road side strawberry stand surrounded by rows and rows of green strawberry bushes dotted with fresh red ripe ready to be picked berries just a few blocks from my grandfathers house. That dampness and scent of the ocean air....what i would do to be there right now.

When i am in Cali next week i won't get to visit that strawberry stand as it is almost two hours from where my parents live.....but i will always have the memories......in any basket of berries.