Thursday was a relaxing day in Mariposa. Fred made arrangements with someone new to get his oil changed. He took off in the morning for Coarsegold, CA. Fred said the drive was well worth it - great scenery!
Zac and I relaxed in the morning. We found a nice sandwich place that we walked to...the long way. We had been in Mariposa for a couple of days and thought we learned the shops that were up the street and down the street from the lodge. Plus we had a map. Should be easy, right? Well, I looked at the map and put it in my mind that the sandwich shop was down the street one way. So we head out for lunch. It was a little warm. It was mid-day anyway. It is clear after a while that we went the wrong way :-( After a short conversations of which one of us was at fault for walking the wrong way, we turned around and walked past the lodge and finally arrived at the sandwich shop :-) It was off the main road and had some good sandwiches. We sat outside and got to be part of the neighborhood. Pictures of hummingbirds are on the camera that didn't come home yet but I think I pulled a picture off the internet and included it in a previous post.
Later in the afternoon we needed dessert. In the walk going the wrong way for lunch we saw a place that had soft serve ice cream. So off we walked. This place was really interesting. It was a deep building that 3 separate vendors in it. The first "section" was for wine tasting. The second "section" was beer. The third "section" was soft serve ice cream but better than that, it was topped with this amazing toffee! Zac and I had a nice time talking with Sidney. We learned of her journey and how she started No Jokaroka. Here is the link: http://nojokaroca.com/. She is preparing to ship toffee for the holidays. Think about crushed toffee on top of ice cream...
Santa Cruz beachfront...here we come!
