Vineyard Creek Hotel Santa Rosa

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 ...

... it is a great way to really understand the ability of the wood to impart it&#8217;s flavour, and affect the final profile of the wine.<br>The guides are liberal with the size of the pours so the onus will have to be on you to show restraint and dump, since there is nowhere to spit here. We enjoyed pours from nine barrels with price points upwards of $50 a bottle.<br>Bike touring and ...

... Flick and Doug how to play Euchure. <br><br>6 hours later at 4:00am, down about 50 PBR's and other random beer shrapnel, 5 games of euchure and shotgunning we went to bed. drunk.<br><br>Yesterday was our big winetasting day. Obviously we all slept in until 10:00 and finally got a kick start on the day. We wanted to head to Calistoga and check out a few wineries in Napa County. The first we went to was Faille. We had a tasting appointment ...

... then they were not far off. Foolishly I figured that if they could do so could I. They set off a few yards in front of me and within a mile, were out of sight. Oh my, I can see I have to keep working on this being fitter thing &#8211; damn it I thought one 10 mile walk and I would be sorted. Still it was enough of a motivation to press on. The trail up to the top of Bald Mountain was actually a paved fire road &#8211; not very exciting but easy on ...

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

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So today is thursday. It was crazy. I got to redo my social studies study guide, and me and Molly went to the boys 8th grade basketball ball game after school. At school we had a crazy poetry teacher come in today. She kinda looked like a creep you'd see in a dark ...

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 ...