Asparagus Festival, Stockton, Ca

Sunday: (04/26) After the Bass Pro visit we headed on to Stockton for the Asparagus Festival. It was my first chance to use my new senior status for a discount on admission. Dawn and I tried the french fried asparagus and looked around but there wasn't much there but booze and food and scant crafts and art. There was what some might call music and there were a lot of people there (crowds and long lines). Now we can say we've been to it.


Too many people at the Asparagus Festival.


We did learn something about growing asparagus. Dawn wants to try some.


There were some orchids on display or sale that looked really nice.


Of course, the natural city landscaping is nice too. This thistle was growing next to our parking spot downtown.

We then looked for book stores in Stockton but ended up in an old residential area with 1/2 lane wide streets and a book store that must have been in a house. Needless to say we had to pass after we managed the tight squeeze out of the neighbor hood in the 54 foot long 8'5 foot wide vehicle. Fun! Fun!

We then dropped by the Sherwood Mall. They had a Barnes and Nobles that had a book Dawn needed. I browsed the mall. The mall wore us out so i put up the dish and relaxed while online update this blog and installing a new application I read about that integrated webmail into Windows so when you click a mail link or "mailto" link, it brings up Gmail rather than Outlook. Very nice.

About 7pm we moved on downtown finding a parking spot for the rig right next to our restaurant Xochimilco Cafe near San Joaquin and Main. That's no easy task for a near 54' vehicle, especially in downtown areas. The restaurant was full but had a table for us. We shared the Xochimilco Special (a chelli relleno, enchilada, toastado, steak ranchero with the usual rice and beans). More than enough for two. We never touched the tortillas but took them with us for later because they are home made and looked good. As we were leaving we were to only customer remaining and the sign light clicked off as we departed. Guess we just made it.

We left town heading South on I5 but didn't get too far. The freeway came to a standstill in Tracy. We managed to move a few hundred feet further and exited the freeway and stopped on the side of the onramp. We settled in watching some TV. It was about 9:30. After a little more than and hour the freeway had started to move a little faster and was actually moving normally after a couple of hours but I decide to further relax instead. A really good reason to travel in an RV!

Monday: (04/27) Just a bit of today. A little before 4am I woke up at our resort on the onramp in Tracy. The drive on home was easy and the RV was parked by 5am and Dawn and I completed our nights rest in our own beds.