Travels with Taz

Notes from Seattle Times Travel editor Terry Tazioli

April 29, 2007 11:47 AM

This is a work in progress?

Continuing the reports from Saturday afternoon -- by the time we get to the second house in St. Helena, the temp is climbing ... mid 80s. I am the only one sweating. What a nice feeling.

This place is a combination of a shack built in the 1800s, another portion of stone built years later and a third structure finished in 2004. It's the one house you can actually read about in this article from the San Francisco Chronicle.

Not bad.

More outdoor dining ... (hint, try a yeast tablet, someone tells me, before dinner and the mosquitoes won't touch you... "neither will anybody else," a friend said.)

More lap pools. What's with lap pools?

My favorite line from this home's desciption in the official tour booklet is this: "The new owners... consider it a work in progress."

Really. The folks who own the first house we saw have the same consideration of theirs. Hmmm... I'd love to know their definitions of progress.

Onward.

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