Shawn working in San Francisco was a wonderful opportunity to take advantage of all that the Bay area has to offer - beautiful beaches and coastline, fantastic food, historical areas and good weather. It was also nice that it is only a 4.5 hour drive from our home in Fallon, so that we could alternate weekends with each other.
One of the most popular paragliding areas on the West Coast is located about twenty minutes from the hotel - Mussel Rock. Hwy 1 and the houses at the top of the cliffs are slowly falling into the water, and there is a visible demarcation where the San Andreas fault moves right through here. The beach was a great place to hunt for shells and sea glass while Shawn soared above me in the afternoons, and the sound of the waves brings me to one of my favorite "happy places" in my mind.
As Shawn's job at Hunter's Pointe was drawing to a close we headed to Clearlake, CA to his grandparents house to meet up with his mom, her boyfriend and his aunt and uncle for a weekend of sleeping out under the stars on the deck, skiing and hanging out by the pool. A number of wineries are located in this area now and we took a Saturday morning and visited a few. Our favorite by far was the Brassfield Estates Winery. All of the wines were estate wines, and the owners have put a lot of thought into using recycled items with a lot of history behind them into the structures and grounds. The olive trees on the grounds are 80 year old specimens that were going to be bulldozed to make way for a shopping center. The chandelier in the main tasting room came from the old Bank of America building in San Francisco - and it goes on and on. By far the most interesting winery we have ever visited - and the wines are amazing as well!
