Gilroy Travel Blogs

For thirty years the community of Gilroy, about an hour south of San Francisco, has hosted a three day festival for its biggest agricultural crop, garlic.  Each year it seems to get larger and more and more foods are offered. One of the most famous of all is “Garlic Ice Cream”!  Ye…

California turned out to be much hotter than Oregon, and a long haired kitten that wasn't heat freindly meant I had to have the air conditioner on full blast most of the time. Gilroy is home to the Garlic festival. Gilroy Gardens has gone through several owners and name changes. It's not as much…

    Having a late start in the morning, we drove through the park onto our way to San Jose. Along the way, near Gilroy, a fruit stand gathered abundance of lively fruits and only the Red Bing Cherries were organic. Of course, being that it is local and a farmer’s stand, one sho…

Me and my best friend Todd took a 2 day trip to the South Bay Area of Northern Califorina.It was alot of fun.

The forecast predicted rain...so it was with much glee and grinning that i lept up from my bed and made haste to bust out the door when i saw the sun shining overhead.  With my hair still wet from a quick cold shower, i grabbed my intrepid guests for the day and headed into the slowly rising s…

A brief stop in Gilroy to but fresh berries along the road let us to a beautiful sqush field and vineyard. To be continued  . . .