Road Trip

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The girlfriend and I are headed to St. Augustine, Florida today for an easy little road trip. St. Augustine is a historic city on the east coast of Florida, founded by the Spanish nearly 460 years ago. It's the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the continental US, and was established nearly 200 years before the US even became an independent nation. One of its most famous landmarks is the Castillo de San Marcos, a Spanish stone fortress that is nearly 300 years old. Today, it is a US National Historic Landmark, and open to visitors year round. It is managed by the US Park Service. Anyway, that's not the reason we are going, although we'll probably visit the fort while we are there. We have two things we want to check off our bucket list today. First, we are going to visit the San Sebastián Winery, a local winery that produces some great wines made from muscadine grapes, a variety of grapes native to the southeastern United States. They do a wine tasting tour, something we love to experience each time we go, but mainly we want to stock up on my gf's favorite wine, a cream sherry they produce and sell only at the winery. The second thing we want to do--and we'll have to wait until the sun goes down--is see all the Christmas lights, which St. Augustine calls "Nights of Lights." As many times as we've been to St. Augustine, we've never visited during the Christmas season and have never seen the beautiful lights strung all over the city. So I'm pretty excited about that. What do you have planned for today? Are you still recovering from Christmas and/or Boxing Day? In the photo is the St. Augustine Lighthouse, another favorite location of mine to visit when in St. Augustine.