to the West and Back

So we're back from our great California adventure. We had a really wonderful time. Spent time in San Francisco, Napa, Sonoma, Santa Cruz, and other wine regions of norther California. All in all we visited 50+ wineries, and I purchased 35 bottles in all - I'm anxiously awaiting their (safe) arrival in Ohio! Since I work at a winery we ended up being able to taste wine at 99.9% of the stops we made for no charge (saving up to $300 per person!) Also, most places extended a very generous industry discount on all purchases which made the 35 bottles much more affordable overall.

Here is the photo album from the trip: http://picasaweb.google.com/ryan.reichert/California

There are some photos missing at the end from our visit to Copia. I believe I've maxed out the albums photo limit, so I'll probably be updating that link above soon to one where all the pictures will fit (and also deleting some of the duplicates!) The beginning photos from SanFran are a little confusing to look at - we were taking pictures of the gathering crowd and the running of the Olympic torch up Van Ness just minutes after arriving at our hotel. It was a real surprise! Everything else I think is pretty self-explanatory.

I'll post more details soon regarding what we did day-to-day, and a list of all the wineries we went to as well as all the wine purchased.

Until later!