After the longest breakfast of my life we hit the road to head for San Francisco. We opted to take the coastal route which added some more time to our hungover drive. We both felt like we had 20lbs of grapes the previous day. After adventuring through northern California we both decided its nice to visit, but neither of us would want to live here. San Francisco feels like the New York City of the west without the high fashion. It is a very windy city. We checke...

A three course breakfast is quite a bit of food to start to day, but in retrospect I am very glad we had such a large base to begin our day. We planned on biking from place to place but after seeing the distance between winerys and the 90 plus temps we decided to drive. All of the winerys are located along twisting 25 mph roads which makes finding specific winerys especially difficult. Our first stop was at Ferrari Correra. This winery looked like an italian vil...

We were advised to check out Fern Canyon while we were in the park and I am glad we did. This is an entire canyon outfitted with foot bridges where the walls are covered with thick ferns from end to end. It felt like you could be picked off by a teroadactyl at any moment and for good reason, parts of Jurassic Park 2 were filmed here. On the way back I decided against MB's wishes that we were going to poach a hiking trail that went through the redwoods called th...

We then headed about 45 minutes south where we stopped at Elk Praire Redwood Forest to go biking. Along the way we stopped at the big Paul Bunyon and Babe statues and checked out the indian museum. We found the trails but decided to take the 'closed trail' which allowed us to have a full body workout as we had to go over and under a large series of logs with our bikes. This dumped out on a dirt road which whizzed down a big hill and threw a few creeks. We then ...

We woke up under the towering redwoods. We were both like a kid on christmas morning jumping out of the tent. Karma is on our side because we were rewarded with another free night of camping due to the young ranger not wanting to work. We first headed to 'The Stout Grove' where the road was built around the trees. Only one car at a time could fit though some sections. This was the only area where we were able to actually play in the redwoods. We were climbing o...