Best Western Inn Dixon

... Map. Cali, our calico, is happy to see us home.

... ago this meant that the early birds got front row seats in the middle of the stage and the late comers were further back or at the sides.
Anyway cutting a long story real short (still a sore point), we were then advised that we are all on standby to fill the seats of any VIP's that did not make it to the taping.
Needless to say we were there until 18:45 (1 hr and 15 mins) only to be told that all but 1 VIP had now filled the seats and we were not able ...

... 2 pm. Take I-80, I-680, 237, and arrive Sundowner Inn at about 3:15 pm.

A lovely day -- with an easy drive out to Sacramento, a good day visiting Sac State (which is a very pretty campus, especially this time of year, with the leaves changing), then an easy drive home. Definitely a long day, and I was exhausted by the end of it, but not a bad one at all.

... it is a great way to really understand the ability of the wood to impart it’s flavour, and affect the final profile of the wine.
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.
Bike touring and ...

Its our last full day in San Francisco and we guessed that you can't visit San Francisco without a visit to Wine Country - NAPA and SANOMA Valleys. It was another early start for us so we decided to get up a little earlier and with Starbucks in hand we boarded our 8am tour bus. We crossed the Oakland/Bay bridge on our way out to the NAPA Valley - this is the ...

Sorry for the quick ending of my last entry! I suddenly realised I'd got carried away with Tahiti details and only had one minute left on the clock, hence quick summing up... but LA was fun, for the 2 days we were there - it's huge and dirty, not attractive at all in parts, but then really lavish and luxurious in other places. Universal studios was brilliant, and then the next day we picked up our rental car ...

... we found numerous signs of the dump still remained.....nails, spark plugs, etc. were imbedded in the rocks along the shore. Check out the photos for a first had look. We acutally saw parts of a car bumper and a gas tank wedged into the beach. From Fort Bragg we made our way to Point Arena, CA. We were focused on climbing the Point Arena lighthouse, which is a 115 foot tall structure that was built in 1870 and later rebuilt ...

... a quick (2hr) spin around the city & over the Golden Gate. Decided I couldn't be bothered walking back to the hotel (it was a lot easier walking down-hill in the morning :-) ) so grabbed a bus instead. Fog has really rolled in tonight (it looks a bit like the Super 14 final out the window) which could mean a few less photos from Alcatraz in the morning.

... walk up the famous SF hills to Lombard St - "the curviest street in the world". we climbed up this steep curvy hill and then waited to catch one of the SF trollies...along with about 15 other people we waited and watched the trolly pass us all...eventually we decided to walk...when a trolley finally stopped, we were only a block away from where we would have to get off to go to our car! Great day, lots of walking ...