Kit and Carol on the Road

We arrived in Calistoga late Monday afternoon and had a “no-drive” day on Tuesday. Calistoga is one of our favorite places to visit-- the epitome of the American small town, AND a restaurant/wine paradise. Calistoga reminds me of Anacortes; except that it has two independent book stores. The only “chain store” is the local ACE hardware. There is one stop light on the main street. This is the far end of the Napa valley, where the predominate language in the neighborhoods is Spanish, and you can still buy a house for less than 1 mill.
We ate out both nights in town: at a new tapa bar, and at our favorite Cal-Mexican restaurant. I thought we might get out of the valley without a wine tasting, but Tuesday on our bike ride I just had to check out the Bennett Lane Winery. We didn’t buy wine here but found out about the Wine Garage in town with lots of good buys. Kit spent most of the day replacing bolts on our spare tire/ bike rack. We are extremely lucky we didn’t lose the bikes as twice on the trip so far, we had bolts break.