Adventure Camera - Sutter Creek

A while back, Josh and I spent a few days in the Sierra foothills riding our bikes and touring around.  After a particularly strenuous ride one morning (you wouldn't believe how steep some of those hills are!), we decided we needed ice cream and headed off to the Sutter Creek Ice Cream Emporium.  That's right, an emporium of ice cream.  Behind an old soda shop counter, the servers dished out cones filled with scoops of a large variety of flavors.  Somehow, Josh and I both described their ice cream as "fluffy."  I'm not totally sure how that works, but it was quite delicious in both strawberry and cherry-vanilla.  We took a stroll around town, popping into the six-or-so antiques shops for fun.  We're not really the antiquing type, but it was fun to see what's considered an antique.  The luggage, in particular, amused us because we spotted two pieces, a hard-sided suitcase and hand-held beauty case, that have twins still in use today by our grandparents.

In addition to antiques and ice cream, Sutter Creek has a bunch of wineries, tasting rooms and restaurants, though we didn't try any of those on this trip.  Being a town with a history, though, we did find a lot of neat architecture and, my personal favorite, an old Shell gas pump.

So, if you're in the area, Sutter Creek is definitely worth a stop, and the whole area around the town has a lot of attractions as well, from vineyards to natural caverns and old mines.

Happy Thursday!