Fountaingrove Inn Hotel & Conference Center Santa Rosa

... be leaving "the boys". We've had tons of fun. Unfortunatly it took us three damn months to teach them to play Euchre, but we've made up for lost time in the last week but playing every night and allowing it to get extremely heated. Although, with Rob playing any game.. things usually get out of hand. <br><br>The next few weeks should be fun though.. finally a ...

... tasting, especially wines of this calibre, is a wonderful way to experience the region. We preferred the late afternoon tours when we knew that we wouldn&#8217;t have to pedal much further so do take into consideration where you might be staying that night.<br>If you enjoy great wine, beautiful countryside and bike touring then you won&#8217;t go wrong with a trip to the Napa Valley.<br>

... the garden! An amazing site with amazing wines to back it up. Not to mention the personality of the fellow who led our tasting really made it an incredible experience. <br><br>Steph and Claire came over for dinner and Steph made Chicken Pot Pie (never had this before, it's BOMB) I stuffed in as much as I could and spent the rest of the night wanted to die because finally at 6pm Sunday my hangover kicked in. We played a couple miserable ...

... apart from one song (the pretentiously titled Beat(en) Generation) they were rubbish and we are never going to refer to them; so there. So like I was saying I was listening to the Mac &#8211; Fleetwood Mac. Was good to work through their three post Peter Green albums &#8211; gentle pop-rock with some very memorable tunes. Best of all I got to listen to The Chain &#8211; and to think I used to have to watch that dire spectacle of F1 racing so I could hear that tune.

... out at 27c/81f yesterday - which was nice.<br><br>Jet lag got the better of me and I hit a wall around 8pm. I am in the far west wing of the ranch and the soft bed and total quiet was just was I needed to get a full 7 hours sleep &#8211; only interrupted by something scratching at the walls &#8211; probably a massive spider or some other scary critter &#8211; whatever I was way too tired to care&#8230;.zzzzzz<br><br>What I ...

... there will be HUGE statue of a Blue Ox and his Ukrainian owner, Paul Bunyak. At a service station along the way, there was a "One Log House" on display. The 9'x 25' redwood was hollowed out, a door was installed at one end and an actual home was built inside. The next day we moved to the Marin RV Park located just 10 miles N of the Golden Gate Bridge and IS the closest RV park to San Francisco.

Today started with a bit of a shocker on my part. I left Reno early so I could get to Napa early and have pleny of time to check out the wineries. I stopped at a petrol station to get petrol but couldnt get the bowser to work so I left and went to another petrol station. Unfortunately when I left the first station I forgot to put the fuel cap on and had wondered what made a noise when pulled out onto ...

... Mel Gibson 'Forever Young' was also filmed here. On arrival into Santa Rosa our first port of call was Circuit City to buy a laptop. Although everywhere along the way has had wifi this seems to have put internet cafes out of business (as per our experience in Golds Beach). After upgrading the model Gareth had had in mind (I should be in sales) we headed in search of accommodation. Truly not ...

Guess what i did this weekend. i went camping w/ my youth group! it was really fun, we got stuck in the rain 4 a little while but it eventually stoped. also i took lots of pictures and got really really scraped up im sure u know how much fun that part was. i didnt get sunburned though, SCORE! We went on a 7 mile hike to our campsite near the beach and their we saw 4 seals swimming close to us. it was a lot of fun i ...

... Kristy is a birthright Friend and Jim traces his Quaker roots back more than 300 years. As proof he showed us a copy of a letter of protest against slavery written by Germantown, Pennsylvania Friends in 1688 and signed by Updergraffs. In the morning there was a breakfast at the Meeting, followed by worship. Then we commenced that day's walk to Davis with some Friends from the Meeting. Folks turned back at various points along the way, and Claudia hung in there until we ...