Wedding Whirlwind

So, I decided to blog this morning and I was so surprised to see that it has been since July that I have managed to write.  Shame on me!  Anyway, I have determined that it must be the planning of the wedding that got in the way of my morning blog...or painting...or working out...or something.  At any rate, I thought I should let everyone know (all four or five of you that actually read this) that Kristen and I had an absolutely wonderful trip.

We started out in San Francisco and although there was so much to do and see here, we were both so happy to just be on our own, we really spent most of our time driving around and checking things out via the jeep we rented.  We saw Castro, Lombard Street, Alcatraz, and of course lots of trolley cars.  Although we avoided most of the tourist attractions, we did walk the Golden Gate Bridge, which is really impressive.  I read that there are over 80,000 miles of wire in just the two main cables that support the bridge, and that it took over six months to spin them!  CRAZY!  Each tower has over 600,000 rivets.

For those of you who have not visited Yosemite, I highly recommend getting there.  I have been blessed to have traveled as much as I have, but honestly, there have been few places that I have seen that could compare to such splendor.  Beautiful skies, rugged moutains and cliffs, enormous trees, and soft meadows all come together in one harmonious picture.  Simply stunning.  I told Kristen that only a backdrop so spectacular could compare to the feelings I have for her.

We finished up our trip in Guerneville, a small city that we were told is the gayest around (unknown to us before arriving).  We took small day trips from here, exploring the coast and traveling into Napa Valley.  Just to our west was a very small coastal town called Jenner, and here there were the most amazing rock formations sticking out of the Pacific.  Both Kristen and I were amazed that we had never heard of this place before, or seen pictures.  Breathtaking.  In Napa we has some terrific wine, needless to say I'm sure, but as you may have seen on Facebook, we found some scrumptious cupcakes there.  Sift is the name of the bakery and snickerdoodle was our favorite.  We drove all the way back to Napa (over an hour on winding roads) to get a second one.  Right on Main Street in Guerneville we had a couple of fun nights at the Rainbow Cattle Co, a gay bar with lots of very nice people.

All in all, this was a superb trip.  The the sights were amazing, the weather was uncommonly warm (in the 90's almost every day), and I got to commit my life to my beautiful wife.  Not bad.