Thread: San Francisco - Suggestions/Trip Report

More San Francisco adventures - Wine, Zombies and Lots Of Fun

One minute you’re hearing , “you’ll be fine, it’ll be fun, we’re only going to ride around the park” and the next someone is yelling something about momentum and you’re in a line of cyclists headed for the street and right into San Francisco traffic.
One good thing about bicycling, you can always put your foot down.
You gotta love “bike people“, maybe it’s the heat build up in those helmets that makes them crazy.

Napa Valley - spectacular scenery, vineyards and wines
Something I learned along the way- It’s fun comparison tasting.
Most of the wineries are along Hwy 29, the Silverado Trail, or the road connecting the two. We took Hwy 29, and visited wineries based on the curiosity factor - if the winery looked interesting from the road we stopped.
We visited 2.1 wineries, “.1” because we left one winery when they told us there was a $25 /person tour and tasting fee - seemed a little pricey to me, the other two were free.
After the wine tasting we stopped and had a great lunch at the Rutherford Grill - great steaks and “fall of the bone” ribs and there’s no corkage fee, so you can open that great bottle of wine you bought from just down the road.

Something unexpected-
We were cutting crossing Union Square when we ran smack into a horde of zombies. Yup, right there in the heart of downtown San Francisco a horde of zombies dancing to the music of Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
Talk about being caught off guard, if these mangy ghouls had been the first wave of the zombie apocalypse we would have been…… “toast”. Fortunately for us this group of the walking dead were part of a flash mob’s dance tribute to Michael Jackson.
I’ve got to tell you, no matter how many horror movies you’ve seen, you’re never actually prepared for a zombies outbreak in the middle of day.
At least we knew enough to be out of there before anyone called lunch.

One last thing, because San Francisco is a city with very steep hills bike riding can be “challenging”, and that’s a quote from someone that finished the El Tour De Tucson bike ride - twice. The steep hills also make it important to curb your wheels when parking …..very, very, important -uh-oh we’re moving