Red Devil Records & Taylor Maid Farms Coffee

I think we had about less than an hour left on our meter and thought we could kill some time checking out some shops around the corner.

It turns out that this area was part of San Rafael's historic downtown district...

Arizmendi Bakery, San Rafael

I was happy to find out when researching our lunch spot that Arizmendi Bakery was closeby.

I mean, VERY close by, as in two doors down from Mr. Pickle's.   Just down the street was one of the main drags in San Rafael that we would later explore briefly.

There was one thing I wanted for sure here and maybe a few other things to pick up...

Spring Break Road Trip 2016 - Day 1: On our way up & lunch at Mr. Pickle's Sandwich Shop, San Rafael

It's time to finally start churning out this year's Spring Break road trip posts...

where we left in the dead of night to do our roadtrip up to the Sonoma area...

Spring Break Road Trip 2016 - Day 1 Highlights

Although Spring Break began after the 18th, we didn't leave for our trip until the day after Easter...
at the ungodly hour of 3 am!

Mission San Rafael

Before heading back to Berkeley, we thought we'd fit in a quick visit to the Mission San Rafael. A few years ago, when TC was in 4th grade, we visited several missions during our road trips (Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo)...Learning about the missions is part of the th grade curriculum. Early last year, we visited the Mission de Alcala (but I still haven't posted it yet) in Mission Valley.

Pretty freeway underpass!