Me so excited for my next vacation I just might once I get there.
Cali or Switzerland, I wouldn't hang with crazies in carnivals with $1.50 hot dogs.
I saw that. Sadly they’re going to Baltimore instead of DC. Not going to that hell hole.
Whatchoo got against Jada Pinkett Smith?
Someone unabashedly asked me to go with them to cali, bro like you want me to spend my own money to go to that hellhole? I'll take a 1000 a day plus expenses for that shit.
It's expensive AF. I get there maybe once a year to hang at our tiny cottage in the blue collar parts of Napa town. We eat at home most of the time, because you cannot sneeze in Cali without paying $50.
Last December I went to a place that sold oysters. Their "happy hour special" was the cheapest wine on the menu: a $40 bottle of Languedoc. Dafuq...
I would go to Napa, but I'm big into wine. Honestly, I would probably like some of the lesser known wine regions more though. I am a huge fan of Santa Ynez/Santa Barbara county. LA is obviously a shit hole, but I sure do love San Diego and the Coachella Valley.
Napa is bloated for wine. Way overpriced, overly performative wines, and too many douches in expensive cars with sweaters around their shoulders.
Much better to go to Sonoma, even though that's gotten expensive. But there some are actual farmers still.
So better yet, you know have to go way west in Sonoma like the Fort Ross-Seaview Sonoma Coast for pinots and chardonnay that doesn't taste like you just drank Hawaiian Punch served in a wooden casket. Or places like the beer towns of Anderson Valley, etc. Santa Rita is great. But even Paso Robles is getting to be a bit over the top.
Contrast this with my travels last week in the Dão country for some Touriga Nacional, Alfrocheiro, Jaen, and Encruzado. You spend $20 on that and it's as good as a $80 Cali pinot or French Meursault. Damn, talk about old but still primitively rustic: stray dogs running on the highways, subsistence living in the fields in makeshift shacks, etc.
Great to go once. Pompous AF. Worth a try though. And my rule with places like that is to order to most foul-sounding food possible: that's where they reach the sublime. (Don't be ordering chicken or steak or some crap like that ... you want ground-up pig face rolled into a giant flower on your plate.)
Good day, soft taco men y hombres vergodas?
I've got your tres leches right here, buddy.