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Sonora Murphy’s Wine Country

Sonora Murphy’s Wine Country

The Motherlode area offers a unique and excellent variety of wineries and wines in the beautiful sierra wine country. Although there are a number of wineries spread out through out the region and these can visited during most business hours. I like to tour the wineries and enjoy wine tasting rooms in and around Murphy’s. In some of the counties you can include activities such as a mystery theater, mountain biking or resort accommodations in your tour plans. Activities such as wine tasting seminars and walking vineyard tours are offered by family owned wineries in Santa Barbara, Sonoma Valley, Napa Valley and the Medocino area. Many of these places also have shops where you can purchase some of the endless varieties of wine and wine accessories you will see on your tours. As everybody knows drinking and driving is not advisable, and for that reason you can tour the...

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Find Your Heart In San Francisco

Find Your Heart In San Francisco

Alamo Square San Francisco at night Chinatown To some, San Francisco is the quintessential American city, and most first-time visitors discover a similar feeling upon leaving. The tumultuous rollercoaster of the city’s history, tied in closely with the history of the United States, has created a mecca of modernism and tradition, revolution and reaction, sassy style and sophistication. Find airfare to San Francisco now and don’t miss out on another minute of the action! San Francisco has experienced a parallel history with the nation’s evolutions and revolutions. San Francisco began as the Spanish colony of Yerba Buena, followed soon thereafter by the California Gold Rush, which exploded the city’s population nearly 25-fold within a year. An earthquake followed by the Great Fire nearly destroyed the entire city in 1906. Since San Francisco’s early cityhood it has been a mosaic melting pot of Chinese, Japanese and Italian immigrants (to name...

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Something Different: California Wine Train Tour

Something Different: California Wine Train Tour

California is renowned for its wine tradition and has been for many years. In fact, it is regarded as the best spot in the United States for wine production and wine lovers will espouse the virtues of Californian wines every chance they get. There are many ways to experience Californian wines, but you should try to include something different in your trip. You could always try the California wine train tour if you are looking for a unique experience. You do not have to like wine to experience the California wine train tour, but it helps. You can see the vineyards and the scenery from a comfortable and modern train. The California wine train tour will get individuals up close and personal with the vines because you can see them much closer than ever before through the windows. You will most likely see people working with the vines as...

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