BEST WESTERN PLUS Wine Country Inn & Suites Santa Rosa

Travel Blogs from Santa Rosa

River deep , mountain high

A travel blog entry by jeanrose49

... a somewhat contrived area of preserved and conserved 18^th century buildings. But the history is very interesting and many fortunes were made when the gold rush started here in 1848. The city has a relaxed and pleasant feel and we mooch about happily in trendy mid-town in small awe of a street system that has letters for west to east and numbers north to south. Who wouldn't want to meet up at, say, 13^th and N? There is baseball frenzy everywhere as the Bears ...

Coast and river, the final official tour day

A travel blog entry by mswanderings

... near the pier.

Fifteen miles south of Point Arena is Gualala, an old logging port that's now an artists' colony. This southern part of Mendocino County coastline is mostly undeveloped and uninhabited, with green forests and coastal coves. South of Gualala you enter Sonoma County, my home county. Soon you come to Sea Ranch, a '60s development that covers over 5,000 acres along both sides of highway 1. Homes here ...

Day 21: wine, a new shoe and a chair

A travel blog entry by ursburs

... home and were just talking about how, after a long time, we spent a wonderful day, without any obstacles and how we even noticed the damaged tired before it burst - I mean, all the days up to now where wonderful, some were teaching us lessons, but we are always willing to learn and light a candle in the dark, but today was exceptionally relaxed and enjoyable - anyways, we were just talking about that, when we got attacked by ...

Whales, seals and a paddle in the surf

A travel blog entry by kate.ambrose

... top Aussie female surfer for those that don't know) doing a voice over. The food was really nice and we were glad we turned back. We then thought we had better check out Bohemian Way which is a 10m road supposed to be great for cyclists. I would not like to cycle on it - it is very narrow and dark through the stands of redwood and people drive quite fast. There are some cute towns with great names like Occidental and Freestone (which has ...

Wine, Music, Shops

A travel blog entry by astoriavslb

... place was owned by Eric, who we chatted with for an hour.

Next stop was the farmer's market where we picked up some fresh fruit (peaches, pluits, plums, nectarines) - some of the best we had tasted. There was a guy selling some fresh fish, which we were tempted to get but had no place to cook it. Then we hit up a cheese shop where we got some parmesan-like cheese and some soft goat cheese and headed to the plaza for ...