Our time in Calistoga went by in a flash, and tomorrow we pack up and hit the road north. It was chilly on Monday when we arrived, but each day the weather became progressively nicer. Tomorrow it will be back in the 90's again, which is typical for the upper part of the Napa Valley in mid-September. The days are hot and the evenings cool. Perfect for grapes, especially the red varieties.
It's the most exciting time of the year because the grape crush is beginning at all the wineries. The vineyards are dripping with picture perfect, incredibly valuable fruit. Timing is everything.
They won't miss a few, will they? Wine grapes stolen off the vine are small, incredibly sweet and very seedy.
A trip to Calistoga is not complete for us without a visit to the Old Faithful Geyser. We took a picnic, as we always do, and sat for an hour and watched. The geyser typically erupts every 45 minutes or so, but today it was going off at 10 minute intervals. Seismic activity affects the frequency, and there was a flurry of earthquakes a few hundred miles north of here this week.
This is not me, but you get the picture. And the highlight of my last day was a mud bath treatment in the Dr. Wilkerson bathhouse. And then, I was totally worthless.
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