California

San Francisco

5/22/2003
Dominick A. Miserandino
An introduction to San Francisco with jetlag, great food, and a brilliant quote from the author, worthy of Mark Twain.


Mark Twain once said that the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Most people focus on the accuracy of the quote, but I'm a bit more focused on the fact that he had such a notable quote. Writing a quote seems like something that I should do too.

San Francisco is the type of city that, even with many factors against it, cannot be done badly. In spite of rain, jetlag and your average annoying dinner companion here and there... in spite of it all, nothing can ruin San Francisco. In fact, it is so nice a city; it makes you wonder why you don't live there.

Napa

5/22/2003
Dominick A. Miserandino
Napa Valley is forever linked to San Francisco and vice versa. It is also linked to good wine, which we learned was any wine which one could drink and not poison themselves.

Napa. Napa and San Francisco are forever linked. People have the same reaction to both... one of envy and one of pride (if they've been there before). The ride was about two hours north and we slept the whole way as we were a bit tired at this point.

Our first stop was the Napa Valley Wine Train. It was there that I learned more about wine than ever before or in quite some time. A tough looking woman walked up and said simply and slowly, "All wine is good wine. Somebody spent some time and energy making it and clearly they liked it. It is worth trying." I was dumbfounded.

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