Sideways - Day 1

We began our day eating at the Solvang Restaurant. This is the same restaurant that Miles and Jack ate at their first morning in the movie. From their we made our way to a grocery store to pick up some picnic items for later. On the way to the store we stopped and took a gander at some Ostriches at the local farm. They look delicious.

We started at the Sanford winery and then drove over to Foxen Canyon Road. On Foxen Canyon Road we stopped at Rancho Sisquoc Winery, Foxen Winery, and Fess Parker Winery. They were all nice, but Sarah and I really liked Foxen. The tasting room is literally a shack on the side of the road. The wine was excellent. Foxen just built a new tasting room about 500 feet further down the road from the original shack, but they are keeping the shack open....it has too much character to get rid of, which makes me happy.

After Foxen, but before Fess Parker, we stopped on the side of the road and ate hummus, olives, cheese, pita bread, and salami....it was delicious after tasting wine for a couple of hours.

Fess Parker was the actor who played Davey Crocket in the Disney movies. He parlayed his fame into a nice winery. In the movie Sideways it was the scene where Miles had his melt down and drank from the wine "spittoons". The wine was fine, but there was a neighbor Jack Russel Terrior who is kind of the tasting room mascot. He found us and pretty much hung out with us during our tasting. It was all I could do to keep Sarah from buying a coon skin cap (just kidding).

We came back to the hotel and relaxed for a couple of hours before heading to dinner at the very nice Los Olivos Cafe'. The food was very nice. I had the pan seared duck and Sarah had the ravioli. We are both stuffed.

We are already looking forward to Sideways - day 2. Check out Facebook for photos of the Ostrich farm.


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