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There are words we use so often in modern parlance that they have almost lost their original meaning. Breathtaking, for example. How often do we use this to describe something that literally takes out breath away anymore? Because, yes, some sights can be so impressively magnificent that they temporarily alter your breathing pattern in a non- ( Read more... )

Hmmm...I need to create a biking icon that fits with my journal's theme here.

As mentioned in previous entries, Mortgaged and I have gotten back into riding our bikes. Over the weeks since Memorial Day weekend when we started we've gotten pretty hardcore. The less of us to love ride is in full effect! ;)  So, for our 12th anniversary last Sunday, ( Read more... )

Add it to the list of things Mortgaged and Blithescribe are not allowed to do again. Our list is far less exhaustive and entertaining than Skippy's List, but it's useful even so.

In packing for this weekend in the aforementioned fashion we managed to forget: Mortgaged's key to the Cambria house (but not mine though that was a fluke of my never ( Read more... )

Friday we set out from the Cambria house towards Paso Robles a little later than planned. The drive up with very little sleep the night before took a fair bit of out of us, me in particular, and we knew we would probably be up late playing games once the boys, aka Crazybugger and his boy B, arrived later that evening. Mortgaged prepped an amazing ( Read more... )

By early afternoon Sunday, the Festival was definitely winding down. As we left town on 46, the balloons and banners the wineries put out near the road to attract attention were starting to droop and fall into slight disarray. The rain didn't help the effect, for while it was only just starting to rain in Cambria when we left, inland in Paso Robles ( Read more... )

On Saturday, we implemented the second half of our Harvest Festival plan - find a few great winery events and kick it for the day.

While the final event of the day would turn out to be by far the most fun, the first event of the day was the most brilliant. Wine and bacon pairing, how much better can it get? The Hope Family Wines consist of several ( Read more... )

Festival Weekends tend to be at their most crowded on Saturday. A good plan, and one we chose to follow this weekend and have also enjoyed ignoring on other festival weekends, is to do most of your exploring on Friday and then just kick it at a handful of winery events on Saturday. On Friday morning, fortified with breakfast, Mortgaged and I set ( Read more... )

If you want to go to wine country why don’t you go to Napa or Sonoma? My husband’s coworker asked him on Thursday. My response upon hearing of this conversation? Because they’re pretentious, unfriendly, overcrowded and way overpriced.

Now this response really was mostly a snarky response to a snarky question. Mortgaged and I had a lot of fun in ( Read more... )

After our kayaking trip on Saturday, Mortgaged and I decided to go off the beaten path and try a few wineries we have never tried before. There are over 200 wineries in Paso Robles now, it’s not hard to find wineries we haven’t visited. With competition increasing, the wineries are starting to market themselves differently and it’s more common to ( Read more... )