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Arch-itecture Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
I’ve uploaded the photos from our trip to New York. After my day of hacking in the hotel (during which we had a great rain storm), I met up with Liz and two of her classmates after their exam for beer and munchies at Luna Park. [...]

While Liz took her exam today, I holed up in the hotel room (for the most part, I dislike NYC) and, freed from the distractions of house and work, busted out my inner geek and started getting traction on a TurboGears project I’d been meaning to start for the past year-and-a-bit.
I’m very pleased to say [...]

Timeless Legs Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
After Liz and I cooked breakfast I and accomplished a car-packing miracle (I knew all those years of Tetris would come in handy!), we found ourselves running a bit early for our first appointment in Prosser, and finding that we were on a strip of wineries, [...]

Wine Porn Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
Thursday began in earnest on Red Mountain in the vineyard at Hightower, hawk circling overhead, Murray the dog by our feet. Kelly Hightower poured and talked us through the tasting. We met Brent Goedhart there, working on a Syrah for his upcoming Goedhart Family [...]

Jean-Claude Pours Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
Wednesday began in Walla Walla with a rainy visit to Abeja. Then it was time to head west, back toward Yakima Valley. We sojourned at Woodward Canyon along the way, lunched at a Mexican joint in Pasco (food okay, bathroom frightening), and zoomed past [...]

Double Refraction Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
Thanks to aquamindy’s help editing the massive heap of photos from the rest of our week in Washington, the logjam of photos is starting to clear up. This next batch (from here to here) covers our Tuesday in Walla Walla.
After a delicious breakfast, we had [...]

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We set off Monday morning to drive through the Cascades on the outbound leg of our epic wine country road trip, with wolffire along as native guide. We stopped in Yakima for lunch (yes, Dad, I took pictures of the train) and arrived in Walla Walla [...]

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I’ve started to upload photos of our trip to Washington. This first round (from here to here) is from Sunday, April 29: our tour and tasting at Chateau Ste. Michelle, a spiffy-looking peacock showing off, some just-before-sunset shots of the Seattle skyline, and dinner at [...]

After spending most of Cinco de Mayo hung over (and, probably, still more than a little buzzed from drinking until 0500 the night before), Liz and I met up with long-lost high school friend dendacien to do a bit of catching up, then it was off to the airport for the red-eye back to Cleveland.
Mercifully, [...]

aquamindy and I are now safely back in Seattle after a week of zooming around Walla Walla and Yakima Valley wineries. Have had an excellent time, tasted many wines, and taken many, many photos. Unfortunately have not had time to process any of it, blog any of it, etc. so all of that [...]