From the delayed gratification files comes our tale of a trip up to friendly Paso Robles, originally planned for early March 2020 but pandemically postponed as normal life fell into its forced hiatus. Surveying options for a 36-hour-model close encounter from Santa Barbara, Paso (officially El Paso de Robles) is an easy choice, a two-hour jaunt up into the full embrace of what the Central Coast has to offer.
On the agenda for my wife, Peggy, and I was a sampling of the tastefully swanky new boutique hotel the Piccolo , close to the beating heart of this small and increasingly covetable city, and a dive into the sensory pool of delight that is Bruce Munro: Light at Sensorio .
British artist Munro’s entrancing and vast 15-acre “field of light” exhibition off of Highway 46 has become a “sensation” on multiple levels, especially in its specially extended run, as travel and cautiously “pre-post-pandemic” life resumes. On this Sunday evening, the joint was jumping, with an all-ages, all socio-economic crowd mingling in the phantasmagorical tapestry of morphing, colored lights.