Costally Yours

Yesterday was a grand day. I considered blogging as we went along, but I thought that might be a little disjointed. Like the day had originally started out... completely out of sorts.

I needed a get-away day. No sooner had I realized that then a Facebook post came up from my friend, Angi Wildt. Like most people in Paso, she does many things. Primarily, she loves to represent artists through her company Expressions Avenue, She also pours for a small winery, Locatelli. So when she posted, I fired off a message.

I picked her up at 10 am and the adventure began.

We stopped here first:

We watched surfers in the swells and seagulls swooping in for food. The breeze licked at our faces and helped blow off the doldrums as we stood on the old Cayucos Pier. Mostly a beach town, Cayucos' main street has several access points to the beach. Surf shops tout lessons and boards while locals look on from the waterfront cafes. We decided to continue down Highway 1 and see where serendipity took us.

We drove a few miles south to Morro Bay and wound our way through various neighborhoods, peeking at the beach side houses. One turn lead us to this:

The Morro Rock.

We were enchanted with the idea of traversing the coastal line of Morro Bay. So we did. We saw adorable little cottages and then this:

Yes, a real windmill on the house. So flippin' adorable. That lead us to the Morro Bay version of "marina". Check this out:

The Parade of Boats

How we get from boat to shore!

We watched a boat named "Scampi" begin it's descent down the launch and marveled at the deftness of the driver. We later saw "Scampi" traipsing around the estuary. 








The gulls just getting together and hanging out with a Pelican or three.












We were starving by then as it was nearly noon and decided we needed to be Libertines. So we went

Such a cute place and with good food on our minds, we happily
feasted on sweet potato chips, a stout burger (OMG) and 
some fish tacos.

Look how charming this place is and Kiddies, they play vinyl all day. Yeah, honest to goodness, vinyl.







And we enjoyed our beers with the vinyl spinning

Goose Island Bourbon County Stout

We also met this little fellow who came in to give us some Morro Bay love:

Feeling relaxed, fat and happy, we headed back to Paso Robles. On our way to the Coast, I'd asked Angi if she'd ever been to Epoch Wines. She hadn't so we went. Angi took this great shot:

From this beautiful place

While I had a moment with Corky:

Then we had a wonderful tasting and bought a bottle for more good times, later. Driving back to Angi's around 4 p.m., we made plans to meet up at my place with another friend and figure out the evening plans from there. I stopped into Second Press. A little NY Steak Chili and some cornbread, hit the spot.

Our plans started with Locatelli 2004 Cab Sauv, moved to the Double Gold Chateau Lettau Tannat (Holy Moly Batman, I love that Tannat).

We ended the evening at Pine Street Saloon, warbling our bottoms off to Marilyn's Karaoke. This is how we do Tuesday in Paso.