Well we’re back from our week-long tour of nearby wine country.  In summary?  One week is too long.  Long weekend perhaps.  There’s a few issues that led us to this decision.  For one thing, honestly you can only taste so much wine.  By day three we were pretty much like “Yep, that’s more wine.  Great.  Next.”  We tried to mix in a few other activities, like hiking and biking, but at the end of the day, it’s a wine-centric area.  The other problem was, the prices are insanely exorbitant.  You hit three or four wineries a day, plus food and gas, your wallet is going to take an absolute beating.  Donette couldn’t seem to quit drawing the parallel that we could have easily stayed in Hawaii for the same money.  Yeah thanks for pointing that out.  This is not to say we didn’t have a good time.  We’ll just cut it a little shorter next time.  Live and learn, as they say.

Another “interesting” feature of our vacation was we stayed in a “tiny home.”  Some may use the term “single wide” but tiny home sounds so much hipper.  We’ve 1/2-jokingly thought of moving into a tiny home some day, so this was kind of our test run.  Four hundred square feet of luxury living.  It was OK.  One big drawback, apparently tiny homes have tiny beds.  We quickly decided our full-size bed days are well behind us.  We’re big proponents of the “sprawl” type of sleeping, and this little cot wasn’t about to accommodate that.  We were relatively sleepless the whole week.  Again:  Live and learn.

As anticipated, I have a bunch of pictures if nothing else.  Heck I might even post more later in the week.