Getting Out Of Town

We are waiting for the stars to align (for the farm sitter to have a whole week free to watch our critters.) We are impatient to go and visit the Little Miss. Some of us were getting a tad crabby, so we planned a quick get out of town within our farm sitter’s 2 day availability.

We packed up Tally-Ho and set off for Lake Chelan and Lake Manson, just a few hours away. Harvest Host was our go to planning guide. They had two wineries with room for us a night each. We arrived at Cheval Cellars to park up for our first night. We sat outside among their apple orchard reading for the afternoon, enjoying the lack of chores.

Marcus arrived in the evening and gave us a tour and a tasting of both their wines and their hard ciders.

We learned the new word/concept – ‘preferment’ coined by Marcus and his wife of a life ‘after’ careers where one is obviously still ‘working’, just at a different sort of purpose. Clearly not ‘retirement’ it is ‘preferment’ (Something like a small farm, might fit this definition). They joined us back at Tally-Ho for cheese, chutney, crackers, tacos and wine, of course. We enjoyed their company immensely, and have penciled in a return to help with bottling this fall.

On day two we set off for town, determined to enjoy a relaxing breakfast. We walked all over until we finally found the sign we were looking for.

Perfect, just what we were looking for! Except for this second sign, no not the ‘beer’ sign, this sign.

Bad British Word.

We adjusted our plan, digging out the sandwiches we’d bought for lunch, eating them in the beautiful River Walk Park.

We watched families coming and going with paddle boards, dogs and bikes. It was completely delightful.

Next on our list of winery was Amos Rome Vineyards. We were suppose to check in at 1:00, which is normally a tad early to start drinking wine.

I must say we adapted fairly well, oh, and the Malbec was delightful!

The view was lovely.

Tally-Ho worked so well. We enjoyed our quick trip out of town. I’ve never been camping before where you come home with more wine than you left with!

We’re enjoying our summer and waiting until we can get our snuggles with that baby girl. We hope you are all well, and indeed, we are blessed.