Whine Country!

June 1, Wednesday: (1) whine... RED MOUNTAIN WINERY'S DO NOT SHIP TO WISCONSIN...what?? It's illegal?? Yes, the Wisconsin wine distributors have a monopoly. They lobbied our legislature for (outside the State) wineries not to be able to drop ship wine to Wisconsin....But, some do anyway...

(2) whine...We arrived at our Quality Inn and were not impressed...I mean who would be after the B&B's we stayed in earlier. Quality should not be in this hotel title...it was very noisy and all the floors were carpeted but wooden....our floor squeaked as did the floor above us...and we were on the second floor. People were coming and going all hours of the night...very annoying!

(3) whine...As we learned more about wine country, we found that since there are seasons of grape, apple and cherry picking and constant keeping up with the orchards/vineyards, there was a climate of migrant culture that are dangerous and our hotel was located; if not in that territory, pretty darn close. Jim found 3 unused bullets outside the back door near our car that weren't there when we arrived. He turned them in to the front desk only to hear that another guest had also found some earlier too...  Yakima, Kennewick and Prossor (tri-cities) have dangerous Mexican gangs. It's prime area for this when vineyards hire cheap labor and year-round housing off the vineyards. The suggestion was made to go to Richland County...trail and parks all along the city and it was safe--so after two nights at Quality Inn...we checked out! Who knew??--Not knowing this at the overview sight, I think my gut feeling was right about those guy...although it wouldn't take a rocket scientist....just sayin.

Now that was worth the view huh??