Yesterday, Donna drove us all down to Hayward on the east side of the Bay to see her Daughter Jamie, her partner Brian and her 2 Boys David 12 & Deven 7. The Boys entertained us with their Skate Boarding prowess and later we went for a walk in a nearby Park where Jamie decided that it would be fun to negotiate a stream by random rock walking. We all managed it without getting our feet wet. It was then time for the Boys to go to their Brazilian Ju - Jitsu cl...

The pic at the top is of the pool and recreation area at Francis Ford Coppela's winery about 40 miles north of Santa Rosa where we spent an exceedingly lazy day basking in the sun and dipping ourselves in the pool not to mention refreshing ourselves with a beer or three. We were all a bit Wined out and Guy reckons The Coppela wine isn't the best anyway. (biased?) Being a trifle over indulged anyway we were quite willing to give it best. Someone had to drive home....

Oh dear. Found a glitch in the programme. I can't write about somewhere I've been and set the location map for there when I am somewhere else & the thing refuses to work if I don't press the location button the damn Ap is too clever by far. Never mind. We left the Grand Canyon and set forth south to Tucson. We broke our journey east of Phoenix at a place called Apache Springs at the foot of the Superstition Mountains. It was red hot and enjoyed a quick dip in...

We went to Jenner on Sunday evening to a fabulous restaurant to celebrate Guy's birthday. We sat high up overlooking the mouth of the Russian River. I took loads of photo's of the sunset which was quite spectacular. The food was excellent as was the wine Guy brought with us. In fact when we returned home we continued drinking excellent Californian wine - rather too much of it which made the following day a bit grey!! The weather has warmed up again although it is...

Hooray. Guy has got a new password and we are online again at last. I did get to a phone shop yesterday in Santa Rosa our nearest big town but Donna had to sign for me as A-T something or other the local US carrier wouldn't accept international credit cards!!! I got the same story in New York which was why I was looking for T Mobile. Yes you've guessed it. No t mobile stores in sight in this part of California. Don't care now. Occidental is a lovely spot but sit...