| If you have been fighting trucks all day on I-5 in | | | | quenched my thirst. I looked around and giggled at |
| California's central valley and are about ready to give | | | | drawings of caricatures Hap-Pea and Pea-Wee, |
| up at Stockton and go to a Burger King for a | | | | splitting peas and making soup in comical poses. |
| long-awaited break, perhaps you should take this into | | | | The soup cooks all day. I had a bowl of pea soup that |
| consideration. Perhaps you have found vast almond | | | | tasted like homemade faster than I could have had a |
| orchards and nothingness that hardly produce a gas | | | | burger. I needed to be in Los Angeles, so I was able to |
| station. There is hope. | | | | eat and run in under twenty minutes. I had the best |
| I found the town of Santa Nella and Pea Soup | | | | pea soup of my life, with bread, crackers, and soda, |
| Andersen's when I saw a giant Dutch Windmill rising up | | | | for the price of extra value meal. |
| along I-5. It was time to stop, to rest my weary back | | | | I was back on my way to Los Angeles, fighting trucks, |
| and shoulders. It was time to get a bowl of pea soup. | | | | but with a belly full of warm soup. This traveler will |
| At the door, the aroma of a ham bone in a slow | | | | never make the mistake of getting a burger when I |
| cooking soup filled my senses as I found a booth and | | | | am within a hundred miles of Santa Nella and Pea |
| relaxed. I started to nibble on an onion roll and | | | | Soup Andersen's. |