An afternoon enjoyed at the picturesque, brother owned Scribe winery in Sonoma, CA.
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An afternoon enjoyed at the picturesque, brother owned Scribe winery in Sonoma, CA.
As I sit down to write and reflect on my time along the Trans Catalina Trail, I can see my feet just past the top of my laptop screen. One big toe is bright purple, pulsing as I type. To be honest, the throbbing keeps me up at night. Two other toes are raw pink, the top half of the skin on them literally fell off after the 360 degree blister bulbs on them burst and were subsequently ripped off (nails included). When I got off the ferry in Avalon, I had no idea I was embarking on what I would come to refer to as the “cadence of pain”. To be fair, bouts of laughter so intense they hurt my gut offset said cadence, but my cankles still need to return to being ankles so there’s time for healing.
My lesson in paying attention to what I order abroad.
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There is Sarah, the energetic blonde storyteller, a recent transplant from Florida. There is Leslie, the soft spoken and sweet Madison grad. There is Laura, the Bay Area native with a bubbly exterior, but an introverted interior. And there is me, the married dreamer from Minnesota. Together we make up a group of four women who work at the same company but who are still quite new to each other. We’ve teamed up for a two night camping trip in Big Sur, California.
The first cat cafe opened in Taiwan back in 1998. From there, the idea traveled to Japan, where it’s really taken off (and where I first heard about them), and finally to us here in the US. There are now 10 cat cafes in the states, the latest one opening up right here in San Francisco.