Hey it's Chris and this is an encore episode of Amateur Traveler,

because I'm off traveling with the Amateur Traveler Group to India.

This episode is about Napa and Sonoma and I chose this episode

because they just had a terrible wildfire as you may have heard.

Now from what I hear from the tourism boards and the wineries that I have connections with

there, almost everything is up and running fine, so it might be a good time to think about Napa and Sonoma

because you might find some deals

because some people are staying away.

It's a pretty great place to go

as you'll hear in this episode. I got my bags packed on a roll.

I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go.

Looking real good in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler, episode 527.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about beer and wild animals, ziplines, museums, but mostly about wine as we go to Napa and Sonoma in California's

Premier Wine Country.

Maybe not, maybe not today. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

Before we get into this show about Napa and Sonoma, I should remind you that we do show notes for all of these that you can find on the

website and actually in the lyrics of the episode as well and I say that because in

this particular episode there are 79 different links to things that we talk about and so you might want to check that out, but now let's talk about Napa and Sonoma.

I'd like to welcome back to the show freelance travel writer Jill Robinson you can find

her at danger jill robinson dot com which makes me giggle every time I say it

Jill welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me.

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