I’ve been thinking about the trips we’ve taken in the past to the Carmel Tomato Fest, which hasn’t been offered for awhile now.

Those Tomato Fests were terrific. Where else could you taste 200 varieties of heirloom tomatoes? Or watch the faces of kids trying them, and based on their reactions say, “Let’s grow that one?”

I wrote about the 2007 Tomato Fest here on the blog. In Carmel that year, we went south down the Pacific Coast Highway to visit our friend Judy Lundberg at Babe Farms in Santa Maria. I told June about when I was stationed at Fort Ord and how I loved to fly down that road when I was young and invincible.

Good memories.