We went home, I changed, and we started out for Napa at 1:00 PM. Traffic was terrible and we went out by the Golden Gate Bridge. We drove around the tip of the Bay. Mostly it was for the scenery, though in theory it was to take a tour of the Christian Brothers winery, which I visited when I was fourteen.

We drove past vineyards, up and down hills, and all the way to Lake Bossa-something, which proved to be a resort with new houses and occasional glimpses of a far-away lake speckled with motorboats and foam. By the time we found the Christian Brothers winery, a gray collection of handsome old buildings, it was after 5:00 and too late for the tour. Instead we went to the V Sattui Winery, again, arriving too late for the tour. So we bought a nice picnic lunch from its deli, prosciutto, French bread, butter, crackers, Brie, salmon mousse, blue cheese, some paper plates and plastic knives, and a delicious $11.00 bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon. Tim drove home.

That bottle of wine would, according to Google, be about $29.24 in today’s dollars.

My first visit to San Francisco had been in June of 1973, when I came out with my parents. Dad was attending the US Conference of Mayors, and we stayed in the Westin Saint Francis. I have no memory of visiting the Christian Brothers Winery then, but plainly I could remember it in 1988. Funny how memories get overlaid and lost as time goes by.