sarahsnowchic

Thus begins a story from the road...contemplated while driving south on Highway 395, an almost 1000 mile feat since we left San Francisco all those days ago.  This journey took us from Lake Tahoe California into Nevada and back to California through Yosemite National Park, onto Mammoth Ski Resort and eventually into Los Angeles.  The rugged snow-capped mountains of the glacier-carved Sierra Nevadas formed an epic and impressive backdrop to an otherwise vast open plain where true to form tumbleweeds certainly did blow in the wind.  The landscape reminded me of No Country For Old Men... so i guess i was glad i wasn´t.... at times like an old Western.... a little bit Dances with Wolves..and as we chanced upon the number of Native Indian/American Reservations dotted along the way, you´d be hard pressed to miss them with the accompanying massive Casino and little else. maybe a $4.95 rib special.  But for the rest of the time a...

A chance to reflect on the journey so far having safely arrived in South lake Tahoe after a day of touring through the Napa Valley wine region north-east of San Francisco.  And when I say safely… surely being chauffeured around wine tasting while navigating from the passenger side of the wrong side of the road can’t be that hard?! Except for the strange sensation as you nervously check the rear view mirrors that you are somehow controlling the vehicle and usually too close to the oversized Chevrolets and right hand road block for my liking… So 2 days in San Francisco and armed with childhood Fullhouse row-house memories and adolescent nostalgia from a road trip here with my dad 7 years ago….. a Drew Barrymore movie “Going the Distance” and later Sean Connery’s “The Rock” (must be on loop here on cable) added a sense of romance and mutiny to the inclusive community vibe of the Rainbow City. It is also unseasonably warm here perhaps unprecedented by my not checking the weather for...