Wine Country pt.1

August 18th, 2009

One of my favorite things about living in California is being able to so easily visit some wineries.  For our honeymoon, Kim and I drove up the PCH to San Francisco and ended up spending a few fantastic days at a seclusive little B&B in Sonoma County, which was our first time in wine country and is where I took the above photo.  So with this Sunday being our 6-year wedding anniversary, we’ve decided to celebrate the occasion by taking a trip up to wine country tomorrow (Santa Barbara County).

If you’re ever in Sonoma County though and you’re looking for something to do other than drink wine during the middle of the day, I’d highly recommend finding your way over to the Jack London State Park.  The former home of London and his wife Charmian was converted into a park back in the 1950’s, and it offers a half-mile long trail through the 1,400 acres of gorgeous land, which London used to refer to as his “Beauty Ranch.”  What I found particularly inspiring, however, was in the museum on the property, which contains London’s first rejection letter.  It was here that I learned that the author of The Call of the Wild was rejected nearly 500 times before he was ever published.  I cannot even fathom continuing on as a writer (or in any other capacity for that matter) in the face of such brutal rejection, and yet, if he hadn’t, we certainly wouldn’t know his name today.

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