Wednesday 4th May 2005
Awake: 6:30am Temp 47 Clear Overnight @ Grand Junction, CO
We walk the campground 30 min for exercise. Then I take our Dell computer
to the campground laundry room where they have a land line modem & check
our e-mail.
Drive over to Tom & Marge’s home @ 12:20pm for lunch. Tom went to the
store and re-supplied the lunchmeat and Triscuits so we eat a similar
lunch spread as we had on Tuesday, minus the salami, which Tom didn’t know
was all gone. Tom has been arranging lunch as Marge has allergies.
Today Tom & Marge are taking us on a tour of some of the 13 vineyards in
the Grand Junction area. 1st though, we move some autos...I back our
Suzuki out of their driveway, Marge backs their Toyota truck out of their
driveway onto the street & parks it temporarily while Tom gets the Toyota
Camry out of their garage & parks it onto the street. Then Tom re-parks
the Toyota truck back onto the driveway & I re-park our Suzuki back onto
their driveway. Soon we are cruising quietly & smoothly in the Camry on
I-70 alongside the famous, Majestic Bookcliff Mountains to the small town
of Palisade (30 min drive) & stop @ the St. Kathryn Cellars tasting room.
We spend about 40 min looking around & tasting their wines but find that
they are much too dry for us. Next to the Plum Creek Cellars just down the
street about 5 min away, where again we taste their wines & continue
finding them a little too dry for all of us. I will say both of these
tasting rooms were quite new, very nice & 1st class. Then we continue our
drive & climb in elevation onto a plateau to the Carlson Vineyards. Their
tasting room was a little crude, well used, but some of us did find a red
wine that we enjoyed very much here…unfortunately, that wine called,
Hungry Cat, was not yet available for sale. And then we realize we have
had enough wine touring for today. Back to Tom & Marge’s home, switch the
automobiles to their respective positions, and then more relaxing moments
in their backyard game preserve.
7:15 Dinner@ Marge & Tom’s gourmet restaurant: Grilled pork chops, baked
potatoes, green bean casserole & cucumber salad, a very good meal.
Afterwards, we spend a little more time in the backyard game preserve but
the evening chill chased us indoors again.
En route back to our bus, we make a side trip to Wal-Mart for Kathy’s Silk
Soymilk.
Late evening: Watch a little weather channel & some late news.
High temp today=73 Lights out: 10:57pm
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