Julian California and Other Sights

We spent some time rummaging about the country side. One of the stops was the little town of Julian California. It is a fascinating old town that was founded to support the gold mining in the area in 1869-1870. It is now a tourist mecca and produces some wonderful apple pies. One statistic that we came across claimed that there were more than 17,000 apple tree in the area. Here is a link to the Julian Town Web Site.

Here is an image of one of the apple pies that are made there. They have a wide variety of pies most have apples but certainly berry pies and other varieties are available. One place had an apple-mango pie but you can, or rather should, eat only so much fabulous pie and ice cream in one day.

We were told by a couple of the locals that the two best places for apple pie, and there are many places, are The Julian Pie company and Apple Alley. Since we wanted some lunch we chose Apple Alley. It is a small place not fancy by any means. I had the Caramel Apple Pecan shown in the picture above, served warmed with a large scoop of cinnamon ice cream. The pie was wonderful as was the ice cream.

One of our favorite stores in Julian is The Birdwatcher. It is rather large store that has everything for the person whom loves wild birds. They have a lot of feeders hanging in the trees out back and sometimes you can see lots of interesting birds there. They also have a wide ranging collection of anything and everything you would want pertaining to birds. This image shows some of their whimsical bird houses.

Since Julian is a big tourist attraction you will find anything and everything there that a tourist might want. We saw some way cool hats that were bird images and lots of other stuff that we didn't know we needed and by the way didn't buy. When you travel in an RV you quickly realize that you have a finite amount of space to put stuff. There is no extra basement, garage, or spare bedroom closet you can fill. It you buy something new then something you already have needs to go. It is a great lifestyle to keep one from acquiring things. It is however a lot of fun to look around in these places and see what you can find.

For those of you looking for a new business venture we have found just the ticket. Along Highway 78 between Julian and Ramona is this unique dairy. They have a web site and have sold a couple of camels and have many other items for sale. In all our travels about the countryside we have never seen another Camel Dairy. You can visit their website by clicking here. You can then order your camels and start your new business adventure.

The blog post wouldn't be the same without at least one bird. Here is a Male Anna's Hummingbird showing his colors. He was defending his territory that included several wild flower plants that were in bloom. He was in a battle with at least 4 other hummingbirds. The image was taken in Ramona when we stopped to run some errands.

We are having a lot of fun traveling about the countryside.