Napa Valley good, bumpy coast road bad.....

Tuesday week two, arrival at out next destination a 1200+ miles later

Always wanted to visit Napa Valley being a lover of wine, Sarah should have been here not Jo lol. Well we got to the Silverado Winery I wanted to visit after some excellant navigation by Jo. So into the tasting r oom and sample some of their premier wines only sold out of the winery itself, oh and yum, yum its nice to experience really good wine, bottles costing from $30 to $100. The guy serving me was able to tell me all about the history etc, besides chatting over soccer, proabition and many other things, Jo spent the next 2 hours enjoying the gardens and sun of Napa Valley.

 Not sure what he is doing?

 On my way in, :)))))))))

 Jo mooching about in the garden.

 Hic, Jo your driving!!!!!!!

 Ah, a rare shot.

 hmmmm, I wonder if I could get one of these in the lugage?

Jo's new wagon.


I of course bought a very nice wine, price witheld lol which I shall enjoy when we get back to LA.

So off to the giant Redwoods and coast highway, or not!!!!!!!!!!

First and only screw up of the holiday, the coast road was nowhere near the coast and we missed Muir Woods, giant redwoods. We wasted hours, both very hungry and car running out of gas. At last after some traumatic miles we arrived at some horrible town called Marina, the gas was stupidly high but we filled up and pushed on to San Francisco, wizzed up the hill the otherside of the city took pics see below.

We decided to retreat from here and push on towards LA, oh my god, the whole of California is in a rush and we were swept along with it until we eventually left it far behind to stop in Morgan Hill a really nice place. Got here around 9:15 so went to bed early so we could get an early start to Monterey and highway 1.

Some pics of our dash out of SF

 Emmm, the bridge

 City floating in the clouds

Who nicked the top of the bridge?