Family Celebrations in California: Food and Fun

Thanks for joining us! We are a husband-and-wife team that travels the country in our Keystone Cougar 2100 RKS, and we love to explore new places. We stopped in Sycamore, Illinois to park our 5th wheel while we flew to California for our daughter’s 21st birthday. We went to dinner in town after watching a car parade go through town. We had dinner at Pizza, Beer, Whiskey, and oh my goodness, the pizza was the best pizza that we ever had. We put our rig at Sycamore RV Park for a few days. It looks like a nice park with ponds. The older gentleman at the desk was not very nice but escorted us to our site only to tell us we didn’t do it correctly. It’s not like we were new at this. My goodness! The sites are very close and not a lot of privacy. But since we were leaving, none of this mattered to us.

This was a special for the day. I don’t remember what it is called.

We each had a shot of whiskey with our dinner.

We jumped on a plane in Chicago to California for a few days.

She enjoyed her first of many drinks with a Mimosa.

While in town, we enjoyed seeing our kids and our new granddaughter. She had gotten so big in just a few months.

After the weekend, we stayed a night in Clovis, California and had a fabulous dinner at House of JuJu. This is one of our favorite restaurants that we frequent when we are in the area.

Shrimp Tacos which are two grilled shrimp tacos served on corn tortillas topped with a cilantro-cabbage mix, fresh avocado drizzled with spicy Chipotle cilantro taco sauce. I get this every time because I can’t find tacos like these anywhere. I love them!

Betsy Ross which is a classic style house sauce, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, red onion, and pickle. It comes with potatoes that are so good!

We met with our realtor for the final signing of selling our house, and the next morning we drove back to San Francisco. We hung out with our daughter for a few hours before we jumped on a plane back to Chicago for a red eye flight.

We stopped for gas and there was a Dunkin’ Donuts. We are not big breakfast people, but we were hungry after flying all night.

Don’t these look good? We each had one before we fell asleep and learned the ants thought they were good too! So, these yummy looking donuts went to the trash.

We got back to our fifth wheel around 7 a.m. and went to bed for a few hours. Then we hit the road.

Stayed tuned as we head to Iowa and learn about how flour was made in the 1800’s