by Stephannie Tallent | Sep 2, 2009 | Food & Wine, Knitting, Travel
There are lots of deer in Washington — at least the places we’re visiting! We’ve seen deer every day, including in front of our rental cabin on Orcas. The first four nights we spent in Dungeness, near Sequim, reasonably convenient to Olympic...
by Stephannie Tallent | May 3, 2009 | Travel
The next few days were all about hiking, both in the rain and in the sun. Here are highlights from Russian Gulch (and lots more pics here). We had Russian Gulch SP by ourselves, in an on & off light rain. Very dreamy and verdant. The waterfall was so pretty: We...
by Stephannie Tallent | Apr 25, 2009 | Food & Wine, Knitting, Tattoos, Travel, Yard & Garden
The 128 is a gorgeous drive although slow — good at the start of a day, it would’ve been bad at the end, and we were very glad we’d decided to spend the weekend in Sebastopol as opposed to driving straight up from LA to Mendocino. We stopped at the...
by Stephannie Tallent | Apr 19, 2009 | Food & Wine, Knitting, Travel
We left early early Saturday a.m. on Spring Break, hoping to reach Sonoma County in time to go to Bella and some other wineries. We took the 5, which has to be one of the most mind-numbing highways as it traverses the Central Valley, but we made excellent time,...
by Stephannie Tallent | Apr 3, 2009 | Travel
This year spring break (TOMORROW!) we’re going to Northern California. Two nights in Sebastopol (from whence we can do all our wine club spring shipment pickups in person — specifically Bella and Longboard and our wine futures (!) from Zichichi) at this...
by Stephannie Tallent | Mar 29, 2009 | Pets, Travel
Yesterday Dave, I and Rigel hiked to Escondido Falls. It’s one of the few areas that allows dogs so we figured Rigel would like the adventure. To his great delight he discovered lizards, how to get incredibly muddy crossing streams, and how to scramble and...
