917 March 6, 2023 Up The Hill For Lunch

We both did our morning workouts and then we left for a daytrip to Julian.

We drove up and over the mountains to an elevation of over 4,000 feet.  It was 64 degrees in Borrego Springs and 44 degrees in Julian.  We are really only 17 miles away as the crow flies.  To get to Julian it is 39 miles or 1 hour on twisted roads.  There were snow covered mountains as we traveled.   This is a gorgeous ride. 

We arrived in town and walked down Main Street, browsing in the many very cool stores.  If we had a place to put things, this would be a fun town to actually shop in, but we don’t need things and so we just looked.

We stopped at the California Wolf Center Nature Store.  We had been scheduled to take a tour of the Wolf Sanctuary last Friday and then again today but all the tours have been cancelled for the past two weeks because of the extreme amount of snow that this little town in Southern California had received.  There was just a little dirty snow along the roadside today but the ranch that houses the wolves has a road that is too wet to easily pass.  We were disappointed but decided to take the trip to Julian anyway.

After walking both sides of the street, we got into the Jeep and drove 3 miles to Jeremy’s On The Hill.  We had lunch here last year and we loved it enough to come back.  We ordered the brussel sprouts…the most incredibly amazing brussel sprouts that we have ever had.  I wish that I could cook them like Jeremy does…Tim wishes so also!  We both had delicious salads as well.

Julian is best known for its apple orchards. 21 varieties of apples are grown here. The Julian Pie Company is a destination. Their fruit pies are famous here in SoCal. We resisted the temptation, leaving town without pie.

We took another squiggly road, an equally beautiful ride, back home.