Santa Rosa Days Inn

Well... Tonight is our last night at "the compound". I have to say.. I'm ready to get the hell out of here. Rob is still going to be working for a couple more days so we're heading over to my friend Claire's to stay until Wednesday. <br><br>Living here at the compound has really been amazing. And even though I'm definitley ready to get moving I'm pretty damn sad ...

... 40 per person it is really a bargain. It was the highlight of the week as far as wine tasting was concerned.<br>Close to the city of Napa are the historic limestone caves and tasting room and to the north in the St. Helena area is the estate winery and Venetian cave lined with Italian marble. We visited the Napa one though I understand that the wine experiences are similar.<br>You ...

... of our friends showed up and there were 112 Pabst Blue Ribbon's in the fridge. Unlike our last party everyone brought piles of beer and wine so at the end of the night with a pile of drunk people, we somehow still had two coolers and a fridge loaded with beer. Great!<br><br>Spent most of Saturday being absolutely worthless. Rented In Bruges, (probably my favorite movie ever) and had a relaxing quiet evening. Until.....<br>I suggested we ...

... technology. As I shuffled back to the car I did see something that could be considered strange. As I pulled of my heavy hiking boots and set down my 30lb pack a couple got out of a car and set out on the trail I had just come off. The hiking gear of the lady of the pair was, shall we say, unconventional &#8211; never seen anyone hike in a crop top and tiny hotpants before. Had to suppress the urge to shout &#8211; &#8216;we know what your doing &#8211; and it ...

... the quality of wine writing here will be definitely of the bin-end £3 a bottle variety rather than a in the style of something selected from the wine library.<br><br>The Flex has turned out to be less of a burden each time I drive it and now I have discovered it has Sirius (satellite, ad free radio by genre) and full USB iPod compatibility I rather pleased I will be tanking it around in this Ark Royal sized car for the next ...

2008 11 07 The rain never let up and seemed to get stronger. When the weather forecasters started issuing "Flash Flood" warnings - we bugged out and drove about 300 miles from Brookings, Oregon to Forestville, CA (NW of Santa Rosa) in one day and stayed at the Riverbend RV Resort overnight. To get there, we drove for 23 miles along a VERY narrow, curvy, hilly paved road that seemed to race ...

... freeway, it was the fuel cap falling off! I happen to notice about a mile down the road a warning on the dashboard advising the fuel cap was not fitted! I turned around and tried looking for it on the side on the road but had no luck. I did manage to find someone else old fuel cap and took that hoping it might fit. It didnt fit the car exactly, the warning light stayed on, but at least it was better ...

... lives. There is now 23 days until we departure, and it seems the time is getting shorter and shorter. I remember when it was December and I was thinking only a couple of months left but now it's just a couple of weeks left. Well I'm going to go now I will keep in touch. Tootles, Olivia

... My seating buddies didn't really stop to catch breath so they talked all the time! It didn't really bother me *although I have to admit the thought of shutting them up did cross my mind but I felt guilty in actually being really the instigator of our little social hub.* Furthermore, I generally know that I can't really go to sleep on planes but I did close my eyes. Although, truthfully I did experience pain on my lower abdomen, the lower part below and a little ...

... ten years old (he's now about 40), leaving him with a sever head injury, so that he now is a hemiplegic, with full use of only one side of his body. We were very impressed with Matt's artistic works, which were on display throughout his apartment. It was so good we felt he should have his work in a gallery. We were touched by the opportunity to share in a host family's personal life in this way. Mary and Robin are also very creative people through story telling and music ...