The first week of November 2007 I took a 5 day tour with 15 people from Springfield, IL of the famous wineries in the Dry Creek and Russian River Valley of Sonoma County California. We visited 40 wineries in 5 days. It was a great time and I recommend you do the Sonoma County tours over the Napa County tours. They are less crowded and the wines fantastic!

New Orleans JazzFest 2007



New Orleans Jazz Fest on April 29th, 2007. I'm standing here with my friends from the conference I attended prior to the Jazz Fest. Blair and Courtney, Jay, Leo, Walt and me. Although New Orleans is still recovering from Katrina, the Jazz Fest was packed with music lovers from around the U.S.


Rod Stewart performed many of his most memorable songs. His fans were dancing all throughout the grounds.