peace out, golden gate

San Francisco rocks (I guess especially so during an earthquake, but that's not important right now).  We had such a good time in the city.  Good beer, good food, great sites and scenery, met some fun people, and I hit 2500 distinct beers on Untappd (god, that's a lot of beer).  But it's time to move on and head north to Santa Rosa.

Love the little wisp of cloud at the top.

See you next time.

While the road to - and the actual city of - Santa Rosa is no great shakes, the reasons we're going there are.  Russian River, Moylans, Bear Republic, Lagunitas, just to name a few.  While most people think of this region as wine country (and they are right to do so), the craft beer industry has established a firm foothold here.  Pliny the Elder, consistently ranked as one of the best beers in the world, is brewed here.  Lagunitas opened a distributorship/brewery/taproom in Chicago last year and is bent on world domination.  Moylans makes the best goddamn Scottish Ale (Kiltlifter) I've ever had.  

Another reason?  The Marriott has a coin-op laundry room.