everyone needs to go

This is one of those places, like Yosemite, that even people who live in the valley may skip over visiting, even though people from all over the state/country come and see it (maybe during their trip to Yosemite). Well, it's stupid to miss and you're doing yourself a disservice. Today, the family went to the Forestiere Underground Gardens and it is totally amazing. Baldassare Forestiere worked for 40 years day in and day out (and I'm sure going a little nuts along his almost-hermit-like life, though they neglected to mention anything of the sort on the tour) on digging out 50 rooms, 20+ feet under the surface in 10 acres of hard pan Fresno land dirt. Crazy. The tour guide said he started digging to get away from the heat (I don't blame him), thinking of his parents' wine cellar. He had some genius ideas-- slanted flooring for proper drainage, skylights galore, plants and grafted plants everywhere, curved floorplan to increase wind circulation. Anywho, I'll save you the rest of the cool history lesson but just go and take your people. And what else was cool? There were a bunch of people on the tours! Go Fresno! My brother-in-laws idea: they should rent out the place for wine-tastings and intimate dinners.