My buddy Louis, his birthday pig, and other Louisisms...

So, yeah, he wasn't kidding when he said he was doing a pig roast.


Since I was headed to San Francisco for the Tre Bicchieri tasting (again) Louis offered to pay for my gas if I'd get him to Santa Cruz. Perfect. We stopped off in Paso Robles to do some tasting, and to stop by the James Dean Memorial, where he was killed in his Porche taking a turn on 46 too fast. As memorials go, it was a very nice one. And right by a pretty decent road house/ diner where we got directions from some local cattle ranchers.


Here we are in his buddies' garage, tasting the latest Patricia Green Oregon Pinot Louis is so fond of.


And this, for all the old skaters out there, is an original Mark Gonzales, by Vision. I'm guessing about circa 1986. Nice!