Holiday Road

We got to Oakland around noon to pick up our RV. Cruise America was packed with people, but we seemed to be the only customers who were speaking English. According to the folks at the desk, 90% of their business is with Europeans. Germans are the majority, then french, the dutch. I have no idea how they are able to navigate our country as no one in America speaks any of those languages and they aren't able to speak much English. I asked the front desk how that works out and they said, "we don't' care what happens to the RV's as long as we have their credit cards"

We loaded up and headed to Napa. We found our first RV Park of the trip and it was interesting. We were in a “different” part of town but it worked. We went into Yountville and had lunch at Bouchon, on of Tom Keller of French Laundry fame restaurants. Very good, but I don’t understand what all the fuss is over Napa. It looks like Brentwood surrounded by a bunch of wineries. We left and drove out to St. Helena, which was fabulous, and what I had thought Napa would look like. Drank some wine and looked around. We had dinner at Gott’s diner on the way back into Napa. It was a gourmet burger joint with picnic tables and good wine. After that we headed to Mimi’s friends Cayce and Lucia’s house for a drink. They are living out there for the summer working at Robert Mondovi. It was great to see them and nice to have a locals perspective of the city.