Weekend Plans?

I was happily sitting at home today reading my blog pals blogs and I started thinking about the weekend. What should I do?  I know it's only Tuesday but I can't help but think about the weekend.  Perhaps a suggestion will come in today's mail.

What's this, a postcard from San Francisco.  That's it!  I am going to suggest to my roommates to take me to San Francisco this weekend.  It's only a 12 hour drive from home...hmm that might be a tough sell for my roommates.  By the way who could this card be from?

I turned the card over and recognized two little bears (and one waving) and knew immediately it was from Jerry and Ben.  They mentioned something about wine tasting, hmmm that might be a little more realistic option for my weekend.

 

Thanks for the card guys!  It seems like you are taking some cool trips this year.  

LF

Road trip....part three

What better to do after a long day of adventuring?  How about a hike!  This old bridge looks fun, I should explore it a little bit more.  Not too much around the bridge let’s go on a nice relaxing drive to Wine Country?   

Hey, why aren’t I in this picture?

I better be more aggressive in my photos and make sure my roommates know I belong in most, if not all pictures.  Yes, this is better.

We went into a few stores and I saw this box with a fox on it.  Something is written in French but I can’t translate?  Maybe Ben or Sandy can help?  I love that box. 

I wish this was the hotel we stayed at….no such luck.  Our lodging was more....err....how do I say this....."modest" but my roommates say money saved on a hotel allows for more adventuring in the future.  Seems to be a good saying to live by. 

A little trip

It was time for me to take weekend trip.  We decided to head south to try and avoid the rain.  It was still raining so we decided to explore a few antique stores.  Look at this cool bench, perfect for a fox.

 The antique store had a couple of animals too.  This bear didn't have a name (I know how tough that can be) but his tag said Concrete Bear.  He was pretty nice and he let me hang out with him while my roommates wandered around the store.

It was still raining.  I convinced my roommates to take me for some hot chocolate at Starbucks.  Here I am posing for a picture with the Univ of Oregon duck (ok, he is in the picture behind me).  I think they should change the mascot to a fox.  But I guess a duck makes sense too since it rains so much here. 

More rain.  Sigh, off to a winery.  This winery was great, they gave a little fox like me a big people sized glass of wine.  I drank it all by myself (aren't you proud?)

I better take a walk and explore.

Next day.  No rain for a while.  We took a long hike through the park.  Then we decided to visit an estate winery.  They had a tour. This room is where they store all the wine, it is like a cave.

The winery was on a a hill (did I mention there was no rain today).  I was able to enjoy a few scenery shots of me and the countryside.

To celebrate the lack of rain today and my good behavior on the tour my roommates decided to treat me to a fox sized glass of wine.  Much smaller than a human sized glass.  After all of that wine, touring, and walking I decided to take a "nap"

I was woken up when it was time to head back home.  I begged my roommates for one proper picture of me at the winery.  

Overall not a bad weekend away. I always could use more hiking but I still got lots of exploring and adventuring done.

Stonehenge?

My roommates woke me up early today and said "Get ready, were going to Stonehenge".  Now for a Little Fox who is afraid of flying internationally (I have heard horror stories of getting through customs) I was a little nervous.  Since my middle name is Adventure I figured it was worth a shot. I wonder what kind of things I should bring with me on a flight to Wiltshire England?  My roommates didn't seem too worried about packing (that's odd) and they hurried me in the car and started driving.  I started to get nervous when we drove past the airport and out toward to Columbia Gorge.  I soon realized they were talking about the OTHER Stonehenge, you know the one in Washington State, not the one in Wiltshire, England.

Here I am hanging out on the altar at Stonehenge (the one in Washington is a county memorial created by Sam Hill for WWI Veterans in Klickitat County).  The walls were really tall and too tough for a little fox to climb up and play. 

I haven't been to the real Stonehenge but somehow I think that you can't drive right up to it and for some reason I imagine the one in England busier...

 Recently (in the last 5 - 10 years) they started putting up wind turbines in the Gorge.  It's not too windy today.

Back in the car, where are we off to now?  It looks like the back of a winery.  What, I have to clean all of these barrels while my roommates taste wine?  No way!  I am going to explore instead. 

  Check out this old building with all of the cattle, I wonder if they tours of the ranch?

Finally, I found a place for a fox to relax.  It was beary sunny today and about 47 Fahrenheit (8.5 Celsius for my international friends).  Not bad for February 1st.  I was enjoying the view while my roommates were wine tasting.   It's no Starbucks but the view was pretty nice.

Just when I was getting restless to move on  I got a bearday surprise. My own bottle of wine to share with my roommates (I am confused since this is MY bearday gift and I am not sure why I have to share it) but it was still a beary good adventure