Onward

Written and posted 5/27/2009 from Vallejo, CA

At this point this this blog is turning into more of a journal for myself and a few others that are still interested in what the heck Joyce and I are doing.

What am I doing in Vallejo, CA? Joyce and I are visiting Joyce's bestest friend from middle and high school Leslie Barnes (Anderson). We are working our way slowly to Colorado where we will be hanging out for the summer.

We started with a 2 day drive from home, heading down I5 and cutting over at Grants Pass to 101 on the CA coast. We travelled down the windy road to Little River and stayed at Stevenswood Spa Resort. Terribly overpriced I think if you have to pay the normal rack rate. Of course I'm cheap. But we got the internet special same day deal for $69, a $250 savings. They said we got the last room. Oh by the way, there is a $25 per person "spa" fee if you don't have any spa treatments done. That judt about doubles the price, not such a great deal. Since we are not sounding interested, we are given the option of having diner in there, a 5 star place with nothing over $30 dollars on the menu. Okay, we bite and take the room. By the way, the max room rate for the room we were in was $925 per night for a double. This coming from the legalese card required in hotel rooms. I've seen these before and I've never have paid even half the rate shown I think. I think these are the max gouging price that will be charged when the hotel room is the last one for 1000 miles and the Olympics are going on just down the road.

The dinner was good, very tasty and the appropriate quatities for people not wanting to gain back their last weight. You know how you regret ordering both the appetizer and a main course because you discover you weren't really that hungry after all and the appetizer was so much that you are already on the verge of stuffed. Not a problem here with the $17 one mint tin sized crab cake like thing. It was delicious dungusness crab, but left plenty of room for the main course.

To be continued