The Travel Notes

For those of yous who are tired of all the "Napa Valley" theatrics of the wineries...i.e. overcharging for tasting, castles, gondolas, etc...California offers many other vino countries.  From the almost completely unknown Cucamonga Valley past times L.A., Temecula fifty-fifty further south, Monterey, Mendocino, Lodi together with more.  My favorite of them all is piddling Amador County, nearly halfway betwixt Lake Tahoe together with Sacramento.  Still mainly undiscovered, this is California's oldest continuing vino producing area.  It's unpretentious, has slap-up vino (especially reds similar Zinfandel), together with yous tin soundless notice gratuitous together with inexpensive tastes there.  We teach at that spot equally oftentimes equally nosotros can...we were at that spot concluding inwards June of '09. Here's business office 2 of our Amador Country trip from 1998 where nosotros teach from peradventure the most historic site inwards California ( part ...

Please indulge us for some other classic trip, a novel trip volition live upwards adjacent week.  For now, it's fourth dimension for some other trip inwards the WayBack Machine.  This time, means dorsum to 1998.  One caveat is that our lodging inwards this study no longer appears to operate every bit a bed in addition to breakfast.  It is right away but a house to concur weddings in addition to receptions, which is likewise bad because it was a real prissy house to stay.  Kind of similar a Tom Sawyer trouble solid along the banks of a prissy fiddling creek.  Oh well, fourth dimension marches on... After driving 300 miles in addition to getting lost on some province dorsum roads, it was amazing looking at this humble fiddling stretch of sand that is the epicenter of California history. For it was here, on a Jan twenty-four hours 150 years agone that a sawmill managing director bent over to alternative upwards a shiny flake inwards the fountain of t...

Not many Sierra towns tin john claim historic condition subsequently exclusively 40-odd years, but Kernville can. That's because the town...in it's entirety...was relocated to its introduce site when the old town was inundated past times the waters of side past times side Lake Isabella. Most people come upwards hither to drib their boat or jetski inward the lake, to run the mighty Kern River, or to grab that tasty Rainbow Trout lurking inward the cool waters of the Kern. Look closely together with you lot tin john encounter the mortal that went overboard clinging to the side Don't larn me wrong, nosotros similar all that too, but this trip nosotros came to encounter what's OFF the beaten path inward Kernville. Kerville occupies a piddling niche at the extreme southern halt of the Sierra Nevada mount range, separated from the nearby Tehachapi mountains, the desert, together with the Central Valley past times Lake Isabella. To larn in that location from L....