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@contentandwell Those teas sound delicious did you ever have the raspberry hibiscus it is good . I,ll have to look for the others .

@jakedduck1 Butting in Ive been to Sonoma and Napa for the wine tasting and in Temecula for the olive oil lots of varieties they have wine tasting there also since they grow grape vinyards. Temecula is a old western town the old part its quit quaint. Ive been on the Grand Canyon train but not the Wine train.

@Erinmfs
That’s a great place. I tried Abalone there and haven’t had any since. But the view, especially at sunset is spectacular. Sometimes it’s a long walk from available parking though, but I’m no athlete.
I forgot the name but there was an exceptional restaurant in Manteca, not where you’d expect such a great place to be. I had alligator. It tasted like chicken but more dense/firm. I heard it had a mild fish taste but the waiter said it didn’t and I didn’t think so either. So when you come back to California where are we going to eat???
Jake

@Erinmfs
Have you ever been to Ernies in SF? It’s gone now. It was awarded 5 star classification over 30 years in a row. Alfred Hitchcock recreated it in Hollywood for the movie Vertigo.
My friend and I ate at the The Rotunda in Neiman Marcus, it was excellent but we were hungry when we left so went to McDonalds on Market St. what a come down.
Jake

@lioness I didn’t know there was a train at the Grand Canyon. Need to put that on my to do list. I flew in (helicopter I think) you fly & fly & fly over the forest and then bang there’s the Canyon. I want to go and walk on the glass skywalk. I remember when it was new it made crackling noises as people walked on it. That would be a bit unnerving.
Jake

I never made it to Manteca unfortunately. Keeping to the healthy eating topic... There was a Mongolian Grill restaurant in Mountain View that my co-workers and I would head to for lunch regularly. i don't remember the name of it, it's probably not there anymore. The same co-worker always wanted to go downtown San Jose for spaghetti, there was a spaghetti place downtown SJ with great food. I learned to dislike Thai Food while there, it's too hot and spicy. Curry is not my favorite. The guys loved sushi, I have a craving for sushi occassionally because of my coworkers there in the Bay Area.

After I moved back here, I was invited to a conference in Orlando with British Telecom at my work. I have some fun memories of this Disney World conference with the BT, engineering team, and the conference served alligator on a stick! It was like a chewy piece of chicken. I didn't care much for it. We thought Florida alligator in Florida, it should be fantastic, but it wasn't. I was attending an engineering symposium for a merger, and the merger fell through after we got back 🙁 Maybe it was the bad alligator at Disney?

I worked a bit on this BT and MCI merger, it was exciting, but it fell through
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I was thinking last night a visit out there is in order sometime, we could have a get together someplace? @jakedduck1 and @lioness and maybe a few others?

@jakedduck1 That would not be for me a glass walkway no way. Yes I think I took it out of Williams Az.

@parus @Erinmfs I just ate dinner (just a salad with a little meat in it) but I am drooling over the sound of these vegetables.

@merpreb I think vinegar on french fries is a Rhode Island thing maybe.
JK

@Erinmfs We used to go to CA yearly to visit my stepson in the SF area, and then our son in the L.A. area. Now my stepson has returned to NH after more than 20 years out there, and my son is in Denver! I love Sausalito too. When you said Cliff House I immediately thought you were talking about Maine, there is one there too, one of those older grand hotels. I love those beautiful old hotels. There are a number of them in New England, and I have been to the del Coronado in SD also.
JK

@lioness No, I have not had raspberry hibiscus but it sounds delicious.
We went to wine country every year when we visited my stepson but never went on the wine train, we just did our own thing. We also spent an overnight in Temecula with our son and his significant other. In Temecula, the wineries are all lined up on one highway so you come down one driveway and up the next, and during the week the pours were very generous. I must admit, I did drink a little too much that day.
We also tasted olive oil, which was sort of weird. I thought they would give you little pieces of bread but you just drank it out of tiny paper cups.

@jakedduck1 I would also love to do the glass walkway at the Grand Canyon. I think as long as the rails are solid and high I would be fine doing it.
I had abalone at a restaurant in Aspen once. It was an excellent restaurant but the abalone did not like me and decided to take its leave in the parking lot.
JK