5/27. Breakfast at a diner (Name?). Good coffee. Off for a winery tour! Pulled in Healdsburg and walked around, waiting on wineries to open up. Trendy town. Cooler than expected. Several wineries:
Ridge. Beautiful place. Bought a 2003 Zinfandel Buchignani Randy ($24).
Coppola. Another beautiful place. Outstanding balcony. Terrible wine.
Unti. Bare working area. Folding table. Lush wines. Craftsmen. Bought a 2004 Sangiovese ($30?).
Armida. Drank the Posin wine. Great wine by itself. I choked on it. Embarrassing. Good spot for a picnic with a view over the vineyards. The counter guy said it was a light crowd – usually 2-3 deep at the bar. Bought a bottle of Posin ($25).
Roshambo winery. Leah told me they are ‘hip’ and ‘like NY’. She was right. The artwork on the walls, and model wanna-be’s serving wine. The zinfandel is good as a stand-alone. Got a bottle. They also sponsor the Rock/Paper/Scissors championships.
Rocholi. I got someone to take a pic of Leah and me. Leah finally got me to pronounce the name correctly.
Final bottle count. Randy – 4, Leah – 9. Leah enlightened me to buy 3 bottles if I like it instead of the usual 1.
5/28. Toured the Scharffen Berber chocolate factory in Oakland. Good samples. Off to San Francisco. Visited a museum that had 1906 earthquake pics then and now. Awesome view of San Francisco from the parking lot. The most impressive pic was the raging fires at night from above San Francisco.
Leah @ San Francisco Museum
Drove down to the pacific to a park. It was very windy and cold.
Long ride back to Oakland. Arrived a little late for Leah to usher at church. I wandered around on Telegraph road. Had a cappuccino and croissant and bought an Over The Rhine CD. We thought Thai, then Chinese then settled on Whole Food Market for Take Out back at Leah’s place.
Stopped at Ikea for wine racks. Needed if you buy a lot of wine.
Good dinner conversation, good wine (Rocholi). Talked about relationships. Greg and Winston joined us, and we listened to the Over The Rhine CD. Built the wine racks.
5/29. Hiked a cemetery. Leah put flowers on her grandmother’s condo. Listened to the start of the Memorial Day ceremony. Off to Home Depot to investigate building a Lattice, and a bridge. Leah also picked out a wall color for my place.
Leah (my best west coast friend) and me
