Day 4: SO. MANY. TOMATOES

 

As we headed from Sacramento (a.k.a., The Big Tomato) to Carmel, I started noticing and smelling something.  Tomatoes.  I'm conservatively guessing 10-15 double-trailer, open-air semi's of tomatoes.  They looked like Roma tomatoes and they were mounding over the top of the trailers.  I mean, there had to be tens of thousands in each trailer...or more!  I kept thinking, "how do they keep them from falling out"?  Well, they don't! Sure enough, the tomatoes fly out on a fairly regular basis.  Thousands of them splattered on the sides of the road!  I wondered how many had smashed into cars!  How many car accidents had these tomatoes caused?  Why don't they put some sort of net or something over the tomatoes? Maybe they could saran wrap the whole truck!  What are they doing with these tomatoes? The ones on the bottom are obviously going to be crushed.  Surely these aren't going to the grocery store.  They must be heading to a processing plant to make sauce or cans of crushed tomatoes.  Just so. many. thoughts. about. tomatoes...

We made it safely to Carmel in the late afternoon, without any tomato incident.  We checked into the Monte Verde Inn, a cute little place in the heart of town.  We opened the windows (no A/C needed, or so they think😉) and sat down to enjoy a couple rounds of backgammon.  I think a couple  from Weed, CA were visiting downstairs.

We were craving Italian food (imagine that!), so we walked to a cute little place called "Catch" and had a delicious dinner of Calimari with both aioli and marinara, and of course a tomato-y ciopinno! We're excited to be here for a couple nights.  

So back to the inn, we got snug in our bed, while visions of TOMATOES danced in our heads!