It's a Schmall World!

In my mind, anyway, this trip started a long time ago. The words I wrote in 1971 could sum up many of the days of the fantastic road trips Leo and I embark along together. Between driving, and when driving, however, a lot happens along the way. This blog is my attempt to fill in some of the blanks between the "and droves". On our latest adventure, I really wanted to capture my thoughts each day, but covering about 8,400 miles in three weeks left little time for reviewing pictures and writing anything other than quick Facebook posts here and there. This trip was a celebration of six years of reading a phenomenal number of journal articles, writing hundreds of pages of notes, headaches, sleepless nights, stress, tears, conducting research, and innumerable hours of forcing myself to stay at my computer until I'd written at least one paragraph. It was finally time for a break and time to hit the road for (nearly) endless days of only needing to consider where to get ...

Not far north of Santa Barbara, we stumbled on Solvang, a small village settled by Danish immigrants in 1911, and now a very touristy town. However, it's a very nice touristy village with an amazing bakery. Leo got a bit carried away when ordering... "We'll take two of those, and two of those, and two of those, and..." Solvang, CA Luscious afternoon snack and dessert, and amazing breakfast on the pier in Monterrey the next morning :)