#coast road drive

[orofeaiel]

Driving along the northern Olympic Peninsula.

[craigularory-joe]

Day 14

[harpysartstuff]

A piece I made after joking with my friend for over a year about him driving a Honda Acty (his name is also Acty lol).

[cogumellow]

visions of the west // washington and oregon, usa // 2014 // ©

[nextheunded]

How gorgeous is the sunrise? I'm not normally up early enough for this but had to drive 3 hours before work at 8am so I had no choice. Got to catch up with @humblepoet26 this weekend too! We really need to start getting photos together.

[vampmilf]

first sighting of snow on our island this fall 🫶🏻❄️

[backroad-life]

Credit: Hans Isaacson

[teaandinanity]

It continues to give me the warm fuzzies that basically every person at work has said they'll miss me. And it's not really utility, even if I'm useful; I am not in a critical position. There are many people who can do the things I do, even if the majority are less experienced. I'm not management, or a lynchpin, just a long-time worker bee.

But people like me, and I just handled a Crisis Situation well enough that the AD took the time to personally thank me, and my manager was like 'not only am I willing to be a reference you can use my personal phone number if that's easier' and even some of the newest additions said they're going to miss me on desk, and I just.

I love my job and my coworkers and it's really nice that the people there know it and love me back.

[m00ngbin]

Every time I see an out of state license plate on the back of the car that's causing ridiculous amounts of traffic in my town I go ballistic very quietly

[landwriter]

dear diary i had a marvelous birthday roadtrip wherein i

had a terrible sinus infection

drove eight hours then waited for a boat for four then saw my best friend’s new place for the first time four hours after that and immediately fell asleep in her bed

hiked for three days (trees trees trees) and swam in a glacial lake

sauna’d

got surprised by a delicious cake while topless (see above)

identified a DOZEN plants for the first time from the trip (and ate so many berries)

bought a great deal of pottery and a nice linen dress

surprised family with a visit <3

saw juvenile barn swallows (v silly beaks)

had old silverware fobbed off on me and decoded the makers marks to learn i have 208-year-old teaspoons! thanks ancestors

drove 1735 kms

got to come back and see home with the fresh peepers you only get when you’ve gone away for a little bit

[lappophotography]

This is really beautiful place.

[mcgaggs]

[timechange]

Marty can’t help but smile when, out of the corner of his eye, he sees @ensnchekov stretch and yawn.

“Hey, Pasha,” he greets, gesturing with his free hand to the sky just starting to lighten, his other hand keeping snugly hold of the truck’s steering wheel, eyes fixed on the highway ahead. “We still got a while if you wanna go back to sleep.”

[rabbitcruiser]

Domaine Carneros, CA (No. 4)

The X-Factors And yet, méthode traditionnelle is only one important factor in our finished product. As with all great wines, the difference begins in the vineyards. The finest sparkling wines are crafted from cool climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and our homebase of Carneros, just like Champagne, France, is considered "Region 1," the coolest of the five designated regions. Our grapes are also harvested in the cool of the night to ensure minimal bitterness and tannin in the resulting juice.

Once in the winery cellar, it’s time for blending. Our sparkling wines are first made like still wines, which are then blended into cuvées -arguably the most crucial step in the sparkling winemaking process. Sparkling winemaker Zak Miller and his team taste through every single vineyard block and fermentation and then carefully select the ones that will come together to create the best wine possible. "Bringing everything together so each blend has its own signature and personality is something I enjoy very much," says Zak. "There is no recipe, it's really about relying on my experience and passion to create something that will evolve in bottle and emerge as a wine that will bring people joy."

And Now, for the Long Finale Once the blends have been established, we start the long, patient process of méthode traditionnelle. The best known distinction of this technique from other sparkling wine processes is that the wine undergoes a second fermentation in the bottle. Tirage, the addition of sugar and yeast to each bottle, is what ignites the second fermentation and creates those lovely little bubbles.

Our vintage-dated sparkling wines are aged in the bottle for at least three years, while the esteemed Le Rêve Blanc de Blancs is aged a full six years. Even three years is a rarity among sparkling wine houses, but the extra time on the lees (spent yeast cells) yields the rich complexity, seamless balance and delicious mouth-feel for which Domaine Carneros wines are known and loved.

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[000png]

regardless whether or not I get into grad school i'm basically committed to not doing much for the next year so I kinda wanna go on a solo road trip 🤔 thinking thoughts

[daisywords]

psyching myself up to do this :))))))))