@Banana Breath,
To Hanford, California, from west Los Angeles for two (the second the next day after the first was so smashing) prix fixe meals by Richard Wing at his (and I think his brother Robert owned it too) Imperial Dynasty. Hanford is sort of near Visalia, where we stayed at some dumb motel with a swimming pool, needed and refreshing on a hot september day in 1979.
First, though, we had driven through the big trees area in the Sierras and I managed to get car sick on the drive down the mountain road. That stopped when the curves stopped, thank goodness.
What great meals. I still have the handwritten menus. We were the only customers there, that first day.
On the closing of the restaurant and about Richard:
In Rural California, an Imperial Dynasty Ends
March 24, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5298206