It’s Travelogue #8
GAYS MILLS - Two weeks into my western trip I found myself at my old friend Mike’s house in Paso Robles, California. Mike and I have been friends “since before the Dead Sea got sick.”
Paso Robles (The pass of the oaks) is a small city on the Salinas River in San Luis Obispo County on the central coast, about half way between Los Angeles and San Francisco. And Paso Robles is somewhat of a boom town.
Previously known for dry farming (wheat and barley) and beef cattle, ‘Paso’ is now surrounded by thousands of acres of wine vineyards and has become a destination for wine lovers. It is in competition with the older and more established wine country of Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties north of San Francisco.