Napa, CA

Birthday in the plum tree
birthday swim
the famous Delicatessen birthday lunch

The next morning: leaving for San Fransisco too early


speeding away into the fog

We left Davis, riding through wine country. It was Jocelyn's birthday. We stopped to swim in a cold stream and sunbathe on picnic benches. When we rolled into Napa, we stopped at Genova Delicatessen's (aka Dulcininis) to fill our water bottles. As we walked into the little Italian market, it struck me that we had ridden our bicycles all the way across the country to this place where i used to come when I was young. I blurted out: "WE JUST RODE OUR BIKES ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY" as if i had just come to realize this fact. Jocelyn suddenly realized we had made it on the day she turned 20 and added: "AND it's my birthday".The chefs, cashiers, and servers at Genova went wild! They started asking us all of these questions and giving us all this delicious food. They were just as excited as we were! Three of the ladies made us the most delicious sandwich imaginable. Cecilio, a cook gave us two enormous slices of chocolate cake. They gave us pickles and chips and little peppercinis. They all wanted to see our bikes, so we led the cooks in their aprons and chefs in the hats outside to see Brahm and the Sheriff (the bikes).

We were quite stuffed so we saved the chocolate cake for later. We headed to a plaza so that we could roll up to Lorraine's house right as she was getting back from work. This homeless guy started talking to us. We gave him our chocolate cake and the remainder of our epic sandwich.


Arriving at Lorraine's house was spectacular! We really did make it. This was the place where we would be staying in Cali for a week. We jumped into Lorraine's arms (she didn't complain about our smelliness... yet). Then we all went out to Sushi to celebrate Jocelyn's birthday. It was grand.