Eating at La Palmita Taqueria in Placerville

 

Today, I am writing my review about a Taqueria on Broadway in Placerville where I ate lunch at recently. It is called La Palmita Antojitos Mexicanos, which is located at 1349 Broadway next to the Accurate Tax Service and Subway in the Broadway Plaza. I ate there with my mother when we were in Placerville after visiting a friend of ours.  At my visit, we both ate chicken tostadas and chips and salsa, and they were both really tasty. Plus, it only cost $9 for both of us to eat here, but it would be more if we brought Dad along.  In my opinion, the food was really good for the price and it was a good call on our part to eat there for lunch. I hope that you will eat there sometime with your family on your visit to Placerville. Or if you work in Placerville and want to find somewhere to eat, I hope you will discover this place and try it yourself. 

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!    Psalm 118:1

 

Reflecting back from a Beautiful Drive down the Oregon Coast

 

We just came back home from a beautiful drive down the Oregon coast. Today, I will be reflecting on a few highlights and businesses that we went to on the trip. 

In Lincoln City, we went to the Treasures of the Sea store, which sells Seashells, Gifts, Lighthouses, Myrtlewood, Collectibles, and Bibles. I enjoyed visiting this store and seeing their seashells, and their collections from the beach which I thought were a really nice find at a little store on the coast. Plus, I really admire that they sell bibles and Christian materials in this store. They are located at 565 NW Hwy 101 in Lincoln City, Oregon.

Also in Lincoln City, we ate lunch at a Thai restaurant, visited a fun Toy and Kite store, and an art gallery co-op.

Most of the week, we stayed at the Schooner Landing Resort north of Newport where I enjoyed walking to the ocean and seeing the beach and the tide pools. One of my favorite things at the beach was an amazing view of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, which we were given a tour of on Veterans Day. We walked all the way to the top of the lighthouse and saw an amazing ocean view with tall cliffs and powerful waves. 

The night before we went to the lighthouse, God gave us an amazing sunset to look at from our resort which was even more spectacular with the lighthouse view. It was a mix of purple, blue, and pink, which made a magnificent mix to have a picturesque sunset. 

At the tide pools, we saw sea urchins, sea anemones, and most of all, starfish. I enjoyed being near the beach at low tide seeing all these pools having creeks that flowed to the ocean. I was able to see deposition of the sand in real life from these small creeks from the tide pools.

On the trip, we visited the town of Newport, where we walked around the little downtown district by the Yaquina Bay. In the district, we ate lunch at the Clearwater Restaurant, where I ate fish tacos and had the privilege to see Sea Lions on the wood platform on the water from the restaurant windows. We then walked over to the area where the Sea Lions were at and admired looking at them.

We also visited the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, which was only in service for three years before the Yaquina Head Lighthouse was built, near the famous Yaquina Bay Bridge which we admired looking at.

On our drive from Newport, Oregon, we stopped at a place at the ocean called Cooks Chasm. In my opinion, it was one of the most gorgeous places by the ocean that I have ever seen. The waterfalls forming from high tide and the waves are amazing just to see from the cliff. When the waves roll over the falls, the water looks like it steams up from the falls. I believe God made this place for us to admire his beauty and his glory.

We also stopped at the Umpqua River Lighthouse near Reedsport and went to Coos Bay at the Cascade Farm and Outdoor store.

We stayed one of the nights in the town of Bandon, south of Coos Bay, where we ate dinner at a tasty seafood restaurant called the Wheelhouse at125 Chicago Street in the Old Town Mall by the Sea. I ate yummy cranberry chicken, potatoes, and vegetables that were served by a friendly waitress who kindly talked with us.

The next day, we drove from Bandon and saw the outside of the Cape Blanco Lighthouse, where there were strong winds.  In fact, the winds were howling so hard that it blew the lids for our coffee cups out of the car to near the cliffs of Cape Blanco where we found them. Then we ate lunch at the small market called the Golden Harvest Herban Farm in Port Orford, Oregon. It is a very nice gem that we visited, with gluten free options for many different types of food. We ate Gluten Free Chili and Salad, which were both really tasty and they have delicious Coconut Milk Ice Cream and Lemon Sorbet. We drove at a parking spot facing the ocean and enjoyed their delicious ice cream after lunch.

The Golden Harvest Herban Farm is located at 620 9th Street in Port Orford, Oregon in the big red house.

 

That night, we stayed at a hotel called the Beachfront Inn, which has tremendous views of the ocean, where we could see the ocean waves roar from our room. We walked on the beach by our room where we could see the waves of the ocean come crashing near where we walked.

We had a very fun adventure seeing many amazing places that God created on the Oregon Coast. I hope that you enjoyed reading about the adventure and that it would inspire you to take your own amazing adventure!!

Thank You for reading my blogpost and God bless!!

And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens." So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the sea, and let the birds multiply on the earth." Genesis 1:20-22

For more information about the places we went to on our trip:

Oregon Coast Magazine, mentions the Treasures of the Sea, Yaquina Head and Bay Lighthouses, Umpqua River Lighthouse, Wheelhouse Restaurant, Cape Blanco Lighthouse, Golden Harvest Herban Farm, and Beachfront Inn: www.oregoncoastmagazine.com

 

Wheelhouse Restaurant: https://thewheelhouserestaurant.com/

 

Beachfront Inn Brookings: www.beachfrontinn.com

 

Golden Harvest Herban Farm: https://www.facebook.com/Herbanfarmer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delta Bedding and Furniture in Placerville finds a new home in the Affordable Furniture building

Delta Bedding and Furniture has taken advantage to fill Affordable Furniture's hole in Placerville by relocating to their store on Broadway to Affordable Furniture's space next to Big Lots. It is located at 55 Fair Lane visible from the freeway at the County Fair Shopping Center with Big Lots, Rite Aid, Carl's Jr, and Denny's. This new location recently opened in August of 2019. 

They offer their customers furniture and bedding from furniture brands such as:

·         Ashley Furniture- Couches, Chairs

·         Aspenhome

·         Bedgear- Bedding

·         Best Home Furnishings

·         Chattam and Wells

I visited the new Delta Bedding location recently where my family and I looked for furniture (which we are still looking for) for our living room.  I thought that this store had a nice, fun, local, small town furniture store vibe to it when I visited.  The salesman was friendly  and didn't push us to buy furniture, but let us look and to think about what we wanted. With the furniture, they display the different types of fabric that you might want your furniture to look like.  I hope that is the case if you visit here and maybe buy some furniture.

It is open 7 days a week from 9am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and 11am to 4pm on Sunday.

Delta Bedding has another location in Shingle Springs visible from U.S. 50 at 4241 Sunset Lane. They have been serving El Dorado County for 35 years. They have the largest mattress selection in El Dorado County.

They have a website: www.deltabedding.com

           For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.                     John 3:16

                                       Thanks for reading my blogpost and God bless!!

 

 

Went down to the Walmart and found ourselves drinking Dutch drinks!!

             

                There's a new coffee shop in Folsom right by the Walmart. It is called Dutch Bros Coffee, which has 325 locations and is headquartered in Grants Pass, Oregon. There are several local Dutch Bros locations in the area, such as in Granite Bay, Fair Oaks, Roseville, Rocklin, and Auburn. It was founded in 1992 by Dane and Travis Boersma.

This new location is located on Riley Street next to the new Big O Tires in the Walmart shopping center. It opened on July 26th 2019.  I recently visited this location with my parents on July 28th, where my mom ordered the blended mocha, my dad ordered the hot mocha, and I ordered an apple juice, which I thought was refreshing on that hot summer day. With the apple juice, they gave me a fun kids cup with a lid that I thought was a nice gesture on their part.

Dutch Bros serves:

Mochas

Lattes

Breve

Americano Coffee

Cold Brewed Coffee

Freeze drinks

Frost drinks

Rebel cold drinks

Chai

Tea

Smoothies

Hot Cocoa

Soda

Kid's drinks

Lemonade

Dutch Bros, while conducting business, adheres to three main core values- Speed, Quality, and Service. They also help in the local community by donating $2 million dollars to local and non-profit organizations such as the Muscular Dystrophy Association in honor of Dane, one of their founders, who died of ALS.  Our local Dutch Bros locations donated $64,441 to officer Tara O Sullivan's memorial fund.

 This is an exciting new business for the city of Folsom and I hope that you can visit and drink coffee or any of their drinks at this new coffee shop.

For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life a ransom for many. Matthew 20:28 NKJV

Thanks for reading my blogpost and God bless!!

 

 

 

Eating tasty tacos in the box

              It has been a long time since I have written a blogpost. The reason for that is I am currently dual enrolled  with the Master's University taking online college classes, but don't worry though.  I wrote a new blogpost just for you about a new taco restaurant in Cameron Park, which I am happy to write about.

This new restaurant is called the Tasty Taco Box which is where the former Sierra Smokehouse was at 2533 Merrychase Drive Suite 400 next to the art studio and Joe's Coffee.  At Tasty Taco Box, they serve Tacos, Quesadillas, Tamales, Tostadas, Burritos, plus they offer their customers tamales to take home to cook.

I first ate at this restaurant a week and a half ago on Monday July 8th and I enjoyed their chicken and tri tip tacos with rice and beans. I also was pleased with their topping of Verde salsa on the tacos. They were really tasty!!

This restaurant is just getting started, so they don't have a website yet, but please go check the place out.

Thank you for reading this short, but fun blogpost and I hope that you can come visit this restaurant and enjoy it yourself!!

 

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  John 3:16

 

Tasty Mexican flavor in Cameron Park

Today's post is a review about a local Mexican restaurant that my family and I frequent in Cameron Park. I planned to write this on Cinco de Mayo, but that was a couple weeks ago. But that won't stop us from writing about this Mexican restaurant.  The restaurant is called Los Pinos Restaurant and Bar, which is located at 3420 Palmer Drive in Cameron Park, California, near the Goldorado Center with Bel Air, CVS, and Petco.  At Los Pinos, they serve:

·         Tacos

·         Enchiladas

·         Tostadas

·         Wraps with French Fries

·         Burgers with Fries,  if you want something other than Mexican food

·         Burritos

·         And other Mexican favorites

My personal favorite dish at Los Pinos is their Chicken Enchiladas with Green sauce with Rice and Beans, which I order when I eat there.  Their chips with salsa and bean dip, which is kind of a separate meal of itself, is also really delicious!! 

The service from the waiters and waitresses are also very friendly!! Our favorite waitress is Ms. Renee, who is also very friendly and is very interested in talking with us about our week.

I think Los Pinos is a very nice restaurant to eat at and I hope that You enjoyed my review about this restaurant. I hope that you plan on eating there sometime.

    Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord, not for men.    Colossians 3:23

Thank you for reading my blogpost and God bless!!

Hungry for tacos? There's a new restaurant in Folsom that is opening soon that will help fill your hunger.

There's a new restaurant coming soon in Folsom called Mas Taco Bar at Palladio in Folsom. Mas Taco Bar will be at...  "Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait till next week to do this one", says Hayden. "Why?", says mom. "We are planning on going somewhere fun tonight."  "What is that?", says my mom.  "Let's go to Fork Lift in Cameron Park", says Hayden.  "Why would you want to go to Fork Lift", says Mom.  "There's something I want to show you at Fork Lift", says Hayden.   

Why are we at Fork Lift again, says Caleb, my brother.  There is something I want to show you.  Do you see this Sam Town plaque.  This is a plaque of the old place called Sam's Town.  Then we started to head back to the car to head back home. Is this why we are not doing a blogpost today, says Caleb, because this would only take a few minutes to look at and then head back.  No, no, no.  There's more to this. Much more.  

 

Then my family and I headed back to Fork Lift and then I showed the new photo booth looking thing outside Fork Lift like they have at the mall. This is the new Time machine which takes you back in time to the past or it can take you to the future, says Hayden. Just push this lever thing and it takes you back in time. 

  Where are we going, says Caleb.  Today, you (Caleb) and I (Hayden) will be spending five days in the past visiting different places in Placerville in the year 1982.  I want to go back because I just received a 1982 Pacific Telephone phonebook of the Amador, El Dorado, and Placer Counties area which I really love to look at. In the phone book, I have found many different businesses that were there in 1982, some of which are still in business to this day such as Raley's, Safeway (in a different location, at the Fair Lane shopping center in 1982), True Value, Placerville Hardware, McDonald's, Jimboy's Tacos, and others." 

Then, the lightning strikes in the time machine and zaps us into the past.

 

                       The city of Placerville in the year 1982

Where are we?  We're in March 25th, 1982 at Sam's Town in Cameron Park. What is this place, here? Shoot, you're at Sam's Town, the cutest little restaurant in Cameron Park, says the front door host at Sam's Town. I have never heard of this place, says Caleb. You are obviously not from here, are you? They have a restaurant which serves some really delicious steak.  "That sounds really good because we are both very hungry", says Hayden. Plus, we have an arcade where you can play all the fun new arcade games such as Donkey Kong, Pac Man, and other fun games you might want to play on your visit. You will have a blast playing here!!, says the host.  Oh my!, says Hayden, Check this out, they have Galaga. I love to play that!  Space Invaders too!! This is awesome!!  Why haven't I ever heard of this place before.  You said you lived out of town didn't you. Where exactly do you live anyway?, says the host. I live in Cameron Park, says Hayden. I actually live in the year of 2019, and I wasn't even born until 2001.

"What!!!!" You are saying you aren't even born yet. Are you saying you are from the future?, says the host. I guess you could say that too, says Hayden.  Yikes!!  Can you tell us what is in the future?  I would rather prefer not to, but I when I get back home, I could take you with me so you could see it yourself, says Hayden.  I would love to. Are there flying cars and hover boards and other interesting things. I would love to try one of them out, says the Sam's town employee.  "I am actually going to be in the area for this week." For what? I am actually going to do some sightseeing of Placerville and visiting Main Street. 

Thank you for the delicious steak that you cooked for me and for the fun games at the arcade of  this restaurant, says Hayden.  Make sure you come back and visit Sam's Town again. You know we have an antique store which you can find some fun souvenirs and plus we have more arcade games you would like to play.    I'll make sure I come back when I am in Cameron Park.                    

On the second day of my adventure, I took the bus and headed to Placerville. In Placerville, our first stores we went to were Payless Drug (now Rite Aid), Safeway (now Big Lots, Safeway moved to Missouri Flat Road in 2004, 22 years into the future) where I bought some food for our trip. In the same center, I visited the record store Nancie's  Records where I looked for different records, cassettes, and tapes for me to buy so I could listen to them on the trip. At Nancie's Records, I bought the Rush Moving Pictures cassette and an ELO Cassette and I bought a cassette player so I could listen to them.

After we left Nancie's Records, we ate lunch at Carl's Jr (still in business serving customers in 2019 as they did in 1982) next door where we ate a hamburger with fries. 

 

 

After we ate, I saw the Harrell Ford dealership (now Thompson's Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram in 2019) outside across the freeway, Denny's  next door(still in business in 2019) and natural forest. As I saw the area, I pondered.  Where I live, I would see In N Out Burger, OfficeMax, an ARCO station, Health and Human Services, and Thompson Toyota across the freeway.  Then I thought. Where I live is in the future, they haven't been built yet, not until 1999(17 years from 1982).

Then we headed back to the Payless Drug area to Placerville Drive where I saw the Family Chevrolet dealership (now Thompson's Buick GMC dealership), Weber Creek Inn (now Century 21 Real Estate) where I would eventually stay 4 nights at, Big O Tires (still in business in 2019), the Placerville Fairgrounds (still there), Raley's Supermarket (still in business in 2019), and Tinker's Cove (now Durango's Mexican Restaurant in 2019). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I headed on the bus and visited Main Street in Placerville where I was stopped on the bus. While I was there, I visited Ben Franklin's Five and Dime (most recently was Candy Strike Emporium),  Cary House Hotel (was closed in 1982, but it is open and serving customers in 2019), the Round Tent Store (the Cascada in 2019), Dillinger Furniture (now Bonker's Toys and an Aveda salon),  Placerville News Company (still in business in 2019) where I looked at some different gifts that I was interested in, Placerville Hardware (still in business and is currently the oldest hardware store west of the Mississippi), Arian's Sporting Goods (still in business in 2019), and visited the Placerville Courthouse.  After that, I headed down to East Main Street where I visited the Montgomery Ward Catalog Store (now the Independent restaurant) where I saw some different tools and appliances,  then I saw the Stancil's Toyota (the Toyota dealership in Placerville before they moved to where they are at currently in 2019 and became Thompson's Toyota,  the old dealership is now Sierra Nevada Tire and Wheel) where I headed to the Midtown Mall to visit Windborn Christian Bookstore.  At Windborn Christian bookstore, we browsed through the bibles, cards, gifts, records and cassettes, and the video tapes.  I ended up buying the Christian rock band Petra's record Never Say Die, the New Gaither Vocal Band record, and nice cards for my Grandma Laura and Grandpa Darryl who lived on Green Valley Road(moved to Diamond Springs in 1983 where they live today), and  Grandma Teddy and Grandpa Al who live in El Dorado (still living in the same house in 2019 as they did back in 1982).

On the fourth day of my adventure, We went to Church at Placer Heights Baptist Church where I saw Grandma Laura and Grandpa Darryl and my mom Kimberly as a eight year old girl, and my Great  Grandma Hazel (who is still living in 2019 in Diamond Springs). At church, we heard Reverend Harley Weldin preach about Jesus Christ dying on the cross to save me from my sin and rising from the dead the third day.  Then we sang hymns before and after the service, one of which was On Christ the Solid Rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.   

Then after church, me, my brother, Grandma Laura, Grandpa Darryl, Kimberly as an 8 year old, and Melinda as a 3 year old, ate lunch at A&W Root Beer (now Weinerschnitzel) on Broadway in Placerville.  At A&W Root Beer, we ate a delicious American meal of Burgers with French Fries with a good sip of root beer. That was some good root beer!! That almost rivaled Big A's Root Beer up in Grass Valley
(they have some tasty burgers and fries with some really good root beer), I thought.  But then I thought, Big A's Root Beer is in the future.  It is A&W Root Beer in Grass Valley.

 

 

 

After lunch, we all visited the Beno's Department Store (now Grocery Outlet) where we went shopping for clothes ( not my favorite thing to do), but it was fun because I found some different sporting goods things on sale which I bought with my money.  We also visited the fabric store Prange's Fabrics in the same shopping center where we look at different fabrics to buy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Picture of Kmart in 1981 (from Romleys on Flickr).

The next day, we decided to head to the new Prospector's Plaza center with Kmart(would operate in

Picture of Lucky's in 1981 (from Romleys on Flickr)

Placerville for 36 more years until January of 2019 and awaits a new tenant, but that doesn't matter in 1982 because they were doing a fine business being the largest store in town. It almost felt like the Wal-Mart stores in the South), Lucky Grocery Store (still operating under the Save Mart Supermarket name), Long's Drugs (still operating now under the CVS Pharmacy name) , Bank of America, Judy's Hallmark, Kragen Auto Supply( still operating under the O Reily Auto Parts name), Straw Hat Pizza (now Anytime Fitness), and other stores.

For dinner, we all ate at King Richard's Pizza (now the Placerville Food Co-op) on Placerville Drive where Dad loved to play arcade games and to eat pizza, and where I ate a little salad because that's what I could eat because of my gluten allergy.

Then we went back to Main Street and for a treat, watched a movie at the Empire Theater with Grandma Freda and Grandpa Lee (both have gone to be with the Lord), Grandma Laura, Grandpa Darryl, Kimberly, Melinda, and I invited Grandma Teddy, Grandpa Al, my father Matthew (only 12 years old), and Michelle to come with us to see the movie. The movie was entertaining and we all thought that it was a fun movie.

The final day of our trip, we went back to Cameron Park and visited the Safeway center before we headed back to Sam's Town.  At the shopping center, we visited the Radio Shack store, Cameron Park Health Foods (still in business in 2019), and Safeway (still in business, but renovated and expanded in a different spot, in 2019). Then, we went back to Sam's Town. Before we went back in the time travel machine to go back to the present, I played Pac Man and Donkey Kong at the arcade which I had a really fun time playing and was also really good at playing. Then, to enjoy Sam's Town one last time before I go back to the present,  I visited the antique shop with Grandma Freda and Grandpa Lee, who loved looking at all the different antiques they had.  While I was there, they told me that Grandpa Lee's dad David Cleveland Beaver who died in 1973, 9 years ago in 1982, used to be a blacksmith which Grandma Mary (who has gone to be with the Lord) also told me at her house.

After three hours of being at Sam's Town, it was time to go home, Back to the Present.  I really loved this fun trip of mine back in the past with my brother and I hope to go back in the past again sometime soon!! 

                              Back to the Present

At Five o clock on Friday March 29th, I headed back  to Fork Lift. While I was there, we went into my brother's Ford Mustang which took me back home.  Back home, while we were eating dinner, I told my parents that I had a blast in the past. I told them about all the different business I visited and my time with my mom and dad when they were little kids with their parents which are my grandparents.  It was so cool!!  I told them that I want to go back to the past again!! 

Me (Hayden) with my 1982 Phonebook after my visit into the past

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caleb with his mustang before we headed into the past

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back to what we were saying about Mas Taco Bar. We will tell you next week about the new restaurant!!  Make sure you check it out when it is posted on my blog!!

 

             The LORD changes times and seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.                     Daniel 4:14

                                Thank you for reading my blogpost and God bless!!