Napa Valey

I finished my last set of finals for Graduate School on Wednesday night, and Rachel and I caught a 6:30 AM flight from Chicago to Oakland, CA on Thursday morning. We were greeted at the airport by Warren (aka Maurice), who drove us around wine country all day. We visited 4 wineries - 1) Andretti, 50% owned by Mario Andretti, 2) Sequoyah, named after the large trees in the vineyard, 3) Darioush, the swankiest of the joints that we visited, and 4) Del Dotto, which is one of the more famous Napa Valley vineyards due to the caves dug by the Chinese in the 1800's.





The vineyards were very pretty. Rachel and I are far from wine connoisseurs, so it was a bit like "the Bevery Hillbillies go wine tasting". It was also amazing in that it was 75 F on the coast and 105 F inland. We learned alot about wine making and tasting through the process.

At the end of the last tasting, we were dropped at our hotel, where we ate dinner and prepared for our adventures the next day.