Sunny Santa Barbara

Following our adventures in Solvang, we met back up with Highway 1 to the south, and continued on to Santa Barbara. We stopped by the mission and snapped some pictures. Inside the mission, we saw an advertisement for a local Zoo-b-que. We aren't sure we want to know what this term means. On first glance, it appears to be referring to an event at the zoo, whose ostensible purpose is to share the beauty of life with its visitors, which offers up other animals for food. Can you say compartmentalization?

We left the mission and headed off to lunch at Sojourner Cafe. Shel had the organic tofu 'egg' salad sandwich, with vegenaise, dijon, spices, and sprouts. Jason had the chili tempeh tacos, served in warm corn tortillas with rice, black beans, and guacamole. We split a bowl of corn chowder and the vegan dream shake, which might explain why we could only eat half of our meals. The food was very, very tasty.

After lunch, we walked over to State Street and walked down close to the beach. We saw a very interesting sculpture which seems to have generated some controversy, due to its depiction of the golden arches on red saw blades with arrows shot into them. Good! McDonald's is a bad company.

The weather was beautiful as we walked down State Street and checked out the Farmers' Market. It was easily the best weather we had experienced so far in California.