Bionic Teutonic

Yesterday, some coworkers and I took a bike trip up to some wineries outside of Seattle. The trip was about 40 miles total and a beautiful ride. Seattle has crap for bike lanes in the city, but some of the bike trails are actually quite beautiful. It was great. Bike for a bit, stop for a wine-tasting, some lunch, and then more biking. The wineries were a trip. I didn’t think we had much of a wine scene up here, but do we ever. It was every cliche about American wine snobbery you have ever been exposed to (which was actually pretty fun). We were basically told to leave at one of the wineries because the dinner train was coming and would be taking over the tasting bar. WTF? There’s a train that takes you wine-tasting in Seattle? One of my favorite moments was when a guy (in a car) said “wow, you guys bike while you’re drinking?”. It’s a whole lot better than DRIVING while drinking dumb-ass. The wine itself varied from kind of crappy to one or two that were really good (I came back with a bottle of one of the good ones). It’s strange because I’m normally such a red wine person, but both on this trip and a trip a few years back when Ariel and I went to Napa to visit a friend who works there, I ended up liking the white wines, while all the reds sort of sucked. Not sure why that is. Maybe it’s easier to get away with a mediocre red wine. Only drawback to the whole trip was the slight wine hangover I had around dinner time.

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