Simply Sonoma

Simply Sonoma

I didn't quite understand the whole "California Dreamin" thing the Beach Boys had going on all those years ago, but now? Now I get it. I wasn't even in Southern California. I was in and around San Francisco and it was PERFECT. Simply perfect. So perfect that I have to divide my trip into two posts. Sonoma was the first leg of my trip and it could have been both legs, heck, it could have been the whole body. By day two I was committed to finding a way to spend all of next summer out there, paychecks permitting, but to me it'd be worth going broke.

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A Sampling of Southport

A Sampling of Southport

Hey y’all, I’m down in Southport, North Carolina for some creekside R and R. You may not have heard of this coastal town but you've definitely seen it. Dawson’s Creek? Under the Dome? Safe Haven? I Know What You Did Last Summer? That's Southport. I've been batting .500 with the weather but, thankfully, knocking it out of the park with the eats. 

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