Sacramento adventures with Koff - then off to Mexico City!

After San Diego I took a flight to Sacramento to visit my pal from high school Dan and his wife Basia. It's a cute city, lots of scooters and bikes that can be rented to get around.

Below was this impressive ice cream place called Salt and Straw, as my readers know, I take ice cream VERY seriously. some flavours being pumpkin spiced tiramisu, coffee and love nuts, pear and blue cheese.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1T5EcC1EjCpxLmOGyVEn8fijfs2Ooke5H

The following day, we went to a man made wake boarding parking https://wakeislandwaterpark.com/
Where a long rope drags around a large body of water. We both managed to get up after several falls but didn't feel confident to do any tricks on this time. If anyone near Sacramento this is a must try!
 https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1UXzt-p1rlfApm4kYNk0JpMoa04l9tDg9

At night Basia and Dan hosted his brother and wife Michelle and myself for Michell's birthday
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1wEo8zh5Q0PMZAZxLXLZLIsTjfxEhxD8L

The following day we went to Napa for wine tasting, this is Jerry who run's one of the vineyards, apparently he had tenure at Stanford and left to start a Vineyard. The one was good but all of these tasted the same to me... :P
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1Z8QExmOG0CutYDjKP9OAu1YqIJRo46FI

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1EdLjgyBdQAan-cHADwp2EUiw91mFOv-L


We then got an airbnb and did some hikes in the area seeing a ton of massive redwood trees!
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1txZoa0MQpp2a2Uowbe_StyVeuZ5Qwc4O

Heading off to Mexico city where i will be setting up shop, lots of Spanish... and Salsa!

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