After driving up out of SFO, our next place to go is Napa Valley, the probably most famous Wine Valley in California. We are booked on the "Winery Train", a mega-touristy train, taking you out through the valley and, per bus, further on to some wineries, tasting their wines.
But having some breakfast in a little cafe, I learned something today:
The interior of the train: all noble, noble, noble.
View out of the window.
Ja ja, now I know, but this time I know more noble.
The locomotive has to turn to the other side of the train. What? That's half way? Already??
Well, no matter how nice these cars might look like, this is when we had to leave. They took us to the wineries where we have gotten so little of wine, that I could have driven home my car after that. However, we walked.
Well, nice countryside, but still sober :-/
(This shirt has seen the laundry in between!!)
Napa is a nice place.
"Cafe LaLa" in Gualala. Had some coffee la la.
The coast, look yourself.
Yeeey, I did it!! :-)
The entire tree once more. They carved the hole out at some time in the 30's and the tree is still growing.
They do all kind of things to trees here.
One even built a "Travel Log" out of it. However, the guy who did it intended to show people how important it is to preserve these trees.
Ah, right, Dennis has a tent now!
"The Avenue of the giants"
A scenic drive through an area where you can find the very largest trees in the world. Check out their diameter"
And their height!
Some of them are even inhabited!
Join us on our drive through these giants:
After seeing more trees than we can take, it was a scenic drive along the coast. An absolutely stunning coastline. No comment, just see yourself:
At night in Brandon we found a restaurant which served the best food I had so far in the States: a Seafood Platter. Different sorts of fish in an absolute superb sauce.
Das gibt's hier in Dosen!!!
What in this picture proves, that it has not been taken in the Harz Mountains???
The smallest VW-Bulli in the world.
Some more impression from the coastline.
The (new) Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It's predecessor had some bad luck. After only a couple of weeks after opening, the entire bridge collapsed in the 30's because of its insufficient aerodynamic characteristics.
Now we have left Oregon and arrived near the Olympic National Park. Updates will follow...
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