Funny isn't it... I said I'll try to write everyday, and the very next day, I don't write...

Anyways... went for 3 conducted tours in the last 3 days. The first day, I went for a wine tasting tour through napa valley, learning the art of wine tasting, and tasting the various wines growing in the region. I even bought a bottle of orange muscat. That wine is GOOD! Also had chardonnay's and merlots... . DAMN! those words seem to just roll of the tongue! So classy and sophistacated... probably because it is french... I suspect that even the word they have for shit sounds sophistacated... . :).

Oh...and guys... if you ever have the chance... go to Sinoma... The girls there are VERY... and I mean REALLY, EXTREMELY good looking... . Just remember to use the reflections... hehe. :) . Girls can go there too... that place has a lot of history... :)

Also saw the exit to Skywalker Ranch and the place that George Lucas likes to use for his river scenes in his movies. Then made the 2 hour journey by bus and train back from San Francisco to where I'm staying in Santa Clara.

Sadly, also got my posting results...and I wasn't too happy with it, but I only got my self to blame, so nothing to say. But I'll keep fighting...

2nd day was spent seeing the city and a tour on Alcatraz. The city is amazing...the roads go up and down like nothing you've seen anywhere else. You've even got one road that makes 8 turns in the space of one block (which is a 2 minute walk). The streets are also bloody steep, often at 45 degrees or higher. I also saw Chinatown and its Durinas, Little Italy, and the neighbourhood which boasts gay pride.

Alcatraz, aka the ROCK, made famous by movies such as THE ROCK, is an experience. You realize how you can break the spirits of even the most hardened criminals, without doing any Abu Gharib stuff.

3rd day was spent visiting the serene, almost prehistoric redwood forest called Muir woods, seeing the quaint, picturesque Sausalito town, and going through a wonderful Bay Cruise. I managed to take some photos that I am pretty proud off... but if only my zoom was better!!!

Pics will be coming up soon... but to end this particular blog, and to show you how fickle the weather here can be, I'll leave you with this quote from Mark Twain. He said:

" The coldest winter of my life was a summer in San Francisco"