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| Cheese Tour homies at Marin French, minus Elias (behind the lens?) |
In order of awesome:
1. Cowgirl Creamery, Pt. Reyes Station - A FANTASTIC selection of cheeses and nice people to guide you through tastings. The also do cheese tasting classes on Fridays, I believe.
2. Nicasio Valley Cheese Co. - A tiny operation with very tasty cheese and a big window to see the cheese making in action. The one lady behind the register was very cool and walked us through a tasting of all the cheeses. They also happened to have a fall pumpkin patch party thing with a hay maze and a giant inflatable Jurassic Park slide that the lady let me ride for free.
3. Marin French - Pretty decent bries, but nothing that really blew my mind, except for the fact that they don't really seem to care/notice if you take 14 samples of each cheese. It's set amongst a picturesque, if not somewhat generic, picnic area with a fake pond and some weird sadistic spinning iron wheel things that can easily crush infants. If the wind is blowing from the wrong direction, this place smells like poo.
4. Spring Hill Cheese - The cheese was decent, but nothing special. We did get to dig our own potatoes though.
5. McClelland's - Tour of a dairy farm. Not much to taste, but I got to let cows lick my fingers. Their pumpkin patch extravaganza was pretty dumb, but I got to pet some goats.
6. Petaluma Creamery store - A small ugly store that didn't have any pizza, as promised, but let us taste all of their middle of the road cheeses.
Also, the KOA in Petaluma FUCKING RULED! They have a giant bouncy pillow, a petting zoo, a pool, a hot tub, some little pedal cart things, the dude who works there didn't care that we were smashing a log in the middle of the driveway, and they sell beer. Fuck yes!
PESCADERO TRIP
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| The whole cycling crew, ten deep! |
Marie's Farm and the whole trip in general: Hydrogen explosion, geese that go apeshit every fifteen minutes from 7am-4pm, mastodon with disco ball, delicious food cooked on a wood burning stove that also warmed the house, a keg of Sierra Nevada, barn dance, artichoke bread, hydrogen powered truck, mud, a crazy awesome dude named Pierre, tons of love, and other stuff.
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