San Luis Obispo Panoramic
This bucolic setting, an hour’s drive north of Santa Barbara, features a rich history, volcanic morros, unique architecture and wonderful wines from the Santa Ynez Valley.

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The Chinese Laborer
Asians have contributed much to the Californian wine industry, often under adverse conditions here’s a fictional tale of just one.

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Silverado Squatters
Famous author Robert Louis Stevenson met and fell in love with Fanny in Europe. He braved illness and oceans to reunite and marry her in San Francisco. They then headed north for the first ever Napa Valley honeymoon. Their adventures are chronicled in  Stevenson’s book, Silverado Squatters.

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Bale Mill
The narrative told in this song tells the story of Dr. Edward Bale, who founded the Bale Grist Mill, a few miles north of Saint Helena, in Napa Valley.

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The Last Mission
The California Mission Trail doesn’t end at Sonoma – but it’s history (told here in art and music) is nurtured by vintners and savored by all.

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Jack London’s Wolf House
Jack London, America’s great novelist and short story writer, escapes the city for the solitude of Sonoma, and the top of a beautiful mountain above the Valley of the Moon. Here he writes some of his most popular novels of the period. But it’s their dream house he wants to build called Wolf House. Read more here.

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Muir Woods
The California Mission Trail doesn’t end at Sonoma – but it’s history (told here in art and music) is nurtured by vintners and savored by all.

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Monarch Forest
This nostalgia piece combining music and art about the monarch butterfly resting grounds in Natural Bridges State Beach  in Santa Cruz, California is a compilation of Bill’s digital art created live to a Brian’s original song. 

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John Nichols Trail
Venture down this trail near Santa Cruz.

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Life off the Faultline
The little titmouse explores the Lexington Reservoir near Los Gatos, California.