On The Road Again

Monday morning, our first day back on the road, had another inauspicious beginning. We had a car cover drop shipped to Matt & Saana so we could leave our car covered in the garage around the corner. The el-cheapo lock that came with the cover was useless, so we bought another. Good thing. When we went for the car Monday morning, it looked as though someone had attempted to take the cover by buggering with the lock. Our keys would not work. An hour of hack sawing later, we had the lock off, the cover stowed and were ready to leave. Unfortunately, we had overstayed the time between paying and leaving so the kind, intelligent gentlemen who ran the garage insisted on another 2 bucks. Talk about adding insult to injury! 

 

On this trip we have learned to take setbacks with a grain of salt, as they say, so we laughed it off and got on our way. Leaving San Francisco for Napa the GPS managed to direct us to some of the highest hills in town. My guess is the inventor of the automatic transmission was from SF.

We've driven over the Golden Gate and into wine country before, but the trip is always beautiful. Rolling hills covered with rows of vines, small picturesque towns, wineries fashioned after European castles and Tuscan villas.

We tasted wine from Jacuzzi (yes, the hot tub family), Cline (same family), Adobe Road, Sebastiani and Buena Vista. This last winery was founded in 1857 by a Hungarian Count who brought cuttings from Europe to try growing grapes in the US. The tasting room is in the building built with the limestone excavated while their "cellar" was hand dug 100' into the hillside. We don't have much room in the car so deciding which bottles to bring home was not easy. There are a few in the trunk and a few in the care of UPS. We saw 3 Corvettes today and traveled 68.3 miles.