Napa Valley Hotel & Suites

... of expired deer. It was a awesome and gory site. Then we enter the Calistoga Ranch, impeccably groomed grounds and smiling faces greet us. We feel like celebrities. April directs us to not touch our luggage as the valet takes care of everything.

They whisk us up the hill to the bar in a golf cart with great plastic door with spring-loaded doors. The ...

Only 6 more days till we go! I am really anxious to leave. Joey and i have finally decided that we are going to take a flight to Cuzco and stay there for the majority of his trip.From Cuzco you can make trips to surrounding villages/Manchu Picchu/ Amazon jungle etc.. On the 19th Joey and I are going to travel back to lima so he can catch a flight ...

... fun ! On a aussi dégusté de bons fromages dont un Brie aux champignons et un autre au Pesto ; on ne fait pas que boire quand même. En après-midi, on en profite pour visiter un château qui est devenu une école de formation des cuisiniers de la Californie et d'ailleurs. Ils y ont installé un musée et un magasin assez impressionnant d'articles pour la cuisine. On termine par l'arrêt à un vignoble où l'accueil est un château médiéval avec son fossé qui l ...

... Hope nobody is going to put water on your straighten hair hehe. Gizmo aka Kristi - knee highs! Yeah thats the first thing I see when I think of you. Thank God I don`t have to put sunscreen in that part of the year lol. Hope all is well with you. Sequoia aka Tierney - you were a good unit leader and a good counselor. I`m really glad we got to work together. How`s your history major going? Tiny aka Tim - you must have had a hard life among 95% of ...

... had lunch looking across the bay at SF, and at the big groups of sealions swimming around or sunning themselves in the water immediately in front of us. After lunch we continued around Marin County, before arriving in picturesque Tiburon in the early afternoon for a ferry ride across the bay. Spent the rest of the afternoon in our room fretting about Guatemala City and its ...

There are only 4 days until I'm leaving the bay area. This blog was created to keep you updated on my travels. While in a rare moment you may be jealous that I'm laying on a white-sand beach in Vietnam sipping a fresh lychee drink - more than likely this blog will make you count your ...

... the cell grates. What seems to be unclear/unknown is whether they ever successfully got off the island and to either a boat or the city. Although it's tempting to imagine them being successful, I can't help thinking that these guys would be at least 85 years old now and with all the media money that they could make from telling their story and the low chance that they'd be put back in given their ages, it may just be a pipe dream. Our airport bus had been ...

... idea. Seeing California in a convertible! And since I would be the driver on this leg of the trip, even better. We checked in at Avis car rental and asked for a convertible, and we were rewarded with a brand spanking new, red Sebring convertible with 5 miles on the odometer. I felt like I had won the lottery - or at least the bingo jackpot. (Note: In the movie 'Sideways' the two fellows drive thru wine country in a red convertible). From that moment, vacation ...

... impressive. I met up with Chris's (Irish Club Boss)nephew Paul who looks after a pub there (very handy) and his sister Teresa. We had a great night out going to some really nice bars and met up with thier friend Brain and his wife Maria. This led to the deadliest hangover when i left the next day for Vegas and my interrogation at the airport was made an unpleasent experience due to this.

... you look there are big bunches of grapes growing on vines. We decided to stop off at the Mumm Winery purely because as a premium sparkling wine producer (they are not allowed to call it Champagne as it is not made in the Champagne region of France) they pick their grapes two weeks earlier than the rest of the region and that just happened to be today!! We would benefit from more of an action tour here (plus I fancied a glass of cold bubbly on this hot day!). We did the ...