The vineyard story

We had a really good start into the day as Bill took us out for breakfast to a small restaurant. Afterwards we explored the town center of Idyllwild. Actually it's worth to spend a couple of days there to enjoy the really nice atmosphere of this town and to do some hiking.
We continued our travel to the South. In Anza we stopped for lunch and again checked our options for the next night. It's hard to find places for wild camping as there's no national forest on our route and the "official" campgrounds are rare and expensive.
So Meike had this idea to stay at a winery over night. On the first call she got a positive response from Shadow Mountain Winery. We arrived there at 3pm and immediately got a wine tasting of the Californian wines. It even got better as Alex and Pam, the owners of the vineyard, offered us one of the tent cabins for the night.
We had some interesting conversations with other guests and finished the day with pasta and a very delicious Sauvignon Blanc.
Alex and Pam do lots of traveling in there orange Bulli. They picked it up in Wolfsburg in 1972 and had a journey all over Europe for 2 years. So they knew the needs of travellers and made our stay at their vineyard very enjoyable 😁Read more