The Long and Wine-ing Road

My best bud Gail joined me for my next adventure.  We met up at the San Francisco airport, rented our car, then sat in traffic for a crazy-long time, watching motorcyclists ride down the white lines between cars, creating their own mini-lanes to get ahead of the masses.  And amazingly, they all did it successfully!  (Dearest Daniel...please don't ever do that!) Finally made it to Wine Country!
We spent the next couple of days based in Napa.  Loved Napa!  Cute town, beautiful drives...oh, and they have wine there!  We had some great food (Carpe Diem Wine Bar for a fabulous dinner; Gott's Roadside for great breakfasts; Oxbow Public Market for bread and chocolate!), saw some amazing views and sampled some great wine.  We loved Sterling, Raymond, Sonoma-Cutrer and Jacuzzi wineries (so much wine, so little time!).

After wine-ing as much as we could, we headed west to Muir Woods National Monument.  This forest of giant redwoods is breathtaking, peaceful and humbling.  I can't even begin to describe how beautiful it is, so hopefully you can get an idea from some iphone pics.  One thing this trip has confirmed for me...I need to live around trees!

 

From giant redwoods to giant buildings...on to San Francisco!