Hilton Sonoma County Santa Rosa

... it". What a laugh!

So after a lardy and boozy day I got back and did some exercise right? No we all gathered around the big brother dinning table and consumed more wine, cheese and some fabulous pizzas.

What I read: A couple more wine tasting menus – load of loquacious old fluff they were!

What I saw. A ****** churned up freeway leading to some beautiful back woods wine country.

What I watched. California State Parks – ...

... It has it’s fans amongst the crew here too for everything except the styling. Honestly it looks like the head of design at Ford asked their 4 year to draw a car and that is what they went with!

We drove north to two vineyards Bella and Ferrari something or other. I am fortunate that a majority of people here actually know the first thing about wine so I can just tag along. Bella was a nice setting – small ...

... refreshing to have 5 people who are completely different get along so well. The problem with living in a new place, city, country every three months is that you are never around your friends long enough.

Not to mention as soon as you don't have to map quest every single little direction, it's time to move.

I am excited for new things because I love new things, but seriously.. I'm so not Vancouver.

So work at Merry's Edwards is done. Shortest, yet longest harvest ever.

I did however start a new job. It's amazing. Wish I just worked there in the first place. It's a place called Vinify. it's a custom crush facility with like 15 or so wineries within it. Everyone that works there is amazing. I've been there for like 3 days but get along great with everyone. Music, playing, beer, and things like randomly wearing the ugliest suit you ...

... Thanksgiving wil consist of dry turkey, booze, wine, booze, music, booze and booze. There is also a mandatory dress code of plaid, flanal, mullets, and hockey helmuts. Not part of the tradition is the blazing California sun overhead. Hockey night in Canada will be on the T.V. We will drink wild turkey and eat wild turkey and if possible spoon a wild turkey.

You should be jealous.

... a large establishment, offering various tours and exhibitions within their compound. The tasting was rather expensive at $20 for 3, so we just got one to share. We tasted the reserve wines which are available only from the winery. They were deep reds and they were all very very good, full of flavour, but also very very expensive, at about $60 per bottle.

(6) Diamond Oaks - small, homey winery. Another winery making only about 5-6K cases per year. I had one of the best C ...

... anywhere the day before Thanksgiving, it was absolute gridlock. In 5 hours we managed to do an 85 mile round trip having turned round at the halfway point realizing we weren't going to get to the vineyard at a decent enough hour. It didn't help that it was also ******* it down and in the end we were a more than a little bit ****** off - what a total waste of time, the wheels seemed to be coming off the road trip !!! To drown our sorrows we didn't have any wine, but a kebab and ...

So this all came to being when I found out how much it was going to be to ship my car to me. I bought a 1951 Chevy Styleline from a guy in Santa Rosa CA. I figured that if it was a running, I'd head down, pick it up, and basically drive it either home or into a parking lot somewhere along the route home to Calgary AB Canada. So I booked my ticket, got my insurance in order, sent all the required info off to the border, and was off to have another adventure. I ...

We have now walked 780 miles, which works out to 1,681,680 steps, and have found over $17 in lost coins along the way. Spotted on a church marquee somewhere along the way: "A good example is twice as powerful as good advice." Our F/friend Tom Goodridge of Morningside Friends Meeting in New York City sent an e-mail with a host of questions about our personal feelings and experiences on our walk, which we though deserved answers for all of you. I wonder about how you feel being ...