For Memorial Day weekend on Sunday we decided to do a super stereotypical California weekend trip: some wine tasting and then driving down the coast to check out some beaches. On the winery front, we drove up to Sebastopol and went to Merry Edwards, Dutton Estates, and our favorite: Iron Horse. My brother and his wife found Iron Horse a couple of years ago and, due to its champagne and wonderful views, we love going back.
After the wine tasting, we took some back roads to coastal Highway 1, which was regrettable. The drive is beautiful, but it was slammed with cars; there is almost nothing sadder to me than a gorgeous road in the middle of the woods or on some lonely stretch of coastline that is covered bumper to bumper with cars… sigh. I’ll have to get out of Cali at some point if I want to leave that behind. In any case, we stopped a couple of times to go for little hikes and then we picked up a couple dozen oysters, eating them out of the half shell at a beach between Tomales Bay and Bodega Bay. All in all, a very driving-centric trip but fun, nevertheless.

The Iron Horse vista from the parking lot. I would have sworn that I took other pictures but my phone disagrees with me.