We visited the Garlic Capital of the World today, although there wasn’t much garlic to be had there. Gilroy claims to be the capital, and I’m sure their garlic festival that is held in July is pretty cool, but when the festival isn’t on it’s just another sad town with lots of empty store fronts. We drove through downtown and almost every other store was vacant, it’s really sad to see. Morgan Hill, which was a little north of Gilroy, was in better shape but it was still just a town and not very impressive. The drive was the nicest part of being out today as I really like this part of California; maybe it’s the green hills and the lack of people and traffic.

Mike: Did you run out of things to say? That's not like you!