Can You Lot Spare A Quarter? A Complimentary Nighttime Inwards Visalia, California


It's T-Minus Two until Christmas. On noon on Saturday, 2 days earlier the big holiday, in addition to we're heading out. Seems we're non the alone ones. Traffic is completely jammed on Interstate 5, disappearing upward into the San Gabriel Mountains every bit nosotros caput upward into the escape from L.A. known every bit the Grapevine.

Actually, I was going to operate out tomorrow on Christmas Eve for this piddling getaway but Tim had wanted to operate out a 24-hour interval early on in addition to mayhap pass a nighttime halfway. Sacramento is near v or half-dozen hours of driving for us if traffic isn't also bad. I had no objections to leaving early.

I went online to encounter where nosotros could detect a house to remain along the way. When I logged on to my Marriott rewards account, I flora 15,000 points I didn't retrieve I had. I'm non actually trying to accumulate points with them correct forthwith in addition to thus I encounter what that many points tin larn me.


What is does larn me is a room, a piddling over 300 foursquare feet, with a Rex size bed in addition to a total size sofabed inwards the pump of Visalia's downtown. I cause got to withal pay the tax, which comes upward to a quarter. I offering to pay it inwards cash with the money inwards my bag but the forepart desk managing director say's that role is comped also.

It's non a wheelchair accessible room but it does cause got step-free access, which is all nosotros necessitate tonight. Tomorrow's hotel volition necessitate to a greater extent than accessible features but this volition produce fine for today.

Visalia is a real pretty piddling town, near an hour's crusade due north of Bakersfield, a few miles due east of Highway 99...the primary traffic artery through California's Central Valley.

The hotel sits near 100 yards due south of Main Street, side past times side to the convention center. It's a real nice, classic Marriott hotel in addition to volition produce good for this overnight residue stop.


Around the corner, nosotros walk past times a few skaters who are spinning the temporary H2O ice rink that's been gear upward inwards a empty lot betwixt buildings. Just beyond is our dinner destination.


Crawdaddy's is a Cajun house on the corner of Main in addition to Bridge Streets. It's squeamish if a piddling expensive.


My married adult woman orders a crawfish etoufee that she says is to a greater extent than similar a gumbo. Too tomato-y for her but Tim in addition to I actually similar it.


Tim gets only about tenders...


...while I larn a real proficient chicken Cordon Blue.


After dinner, nosotros accept a piddling stroll through the tranquillity in addition to pretty downtown district. Being only a flake over 24 hours until Christmas, it's real tranquillity although a duo of bars are doing booming business. We're non inwards a drinking mood tonight, instead, we'll caput dorsum to the room in addition to spotter classic movies similar "The Wizard of Oz" until bedtime.

In the morning, nosotros tin pay $16 for the hotel's breakfast buffet or nosotros tin walk a curt block to larn our repast one-half cost at 1 of the local Mexican restaurants. Guess which selection nosotros choose.


Colima, dorsum on Main Street, is warm, inviting, in addition to friendly.

Letty...the truthful Mexican alongside us...isn't feeling her roots this morn in addition to thus she goes with bacon, eggs, in addition to pancakes.


Tim gets a delicious bowl of steaming menudo...


...while I larn this delicious plate of chilaquiles in addition to eggs.

It's all real delicious in addition to a perfect repast to fortify us for the crusade upward to our destination.

We'll survive sharing our gamble of Christmas inwards the state's capitol soon, remain tuned for that,

Darryl Musick
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