Despite my momentary bouts of whining, I have to tell you, this is amazing.
At the moment, my equipment and I are sitting in a lovely garden at Cline Cellars, still in the Carneros region of the valleys. There are roses in bloom here that are just this side of unbelievable.
I'm typing away, trying to catch up with the day's activities.
I must say this whole blog business continues to amaze me. Someone at the next spot over on the lawn looked over a few minutes ago and said, "Aren't you Terry, the guy from Seattle who's blogging his way through the valley?"
Trust me. That is not the first time I've heard that today. At the last stop, two women wanted to know if I could check flight schedules for them - they wanted to stay over another night and had seen me chatting away online.
At a reception earlier today, a gentleman walked up to me, shook my hand and told me he'd had dinner at my house in Seattle.
Another person even earlier told me I was becoming noted up and down the valley.
I don't really want to be noted, I smiled, of course sweetly.
But it does amaze me. So do the e-mails, literally hundreds of them, some from people I haven't seen in years.
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