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Our first (of many) song tao (I'm guessing on the spelling) rides: I speculate about starting a taxi business in Berkeley and my dreams are crushed by the imagined cost of insurance. - IMG 6111
view out the back - IMG 6115
We stop to photograph some monkeys. - IMG 6116
That's right, monkeys. - IMG 6117
So many monkeys. - IMG 6118
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Group shot on the railroad tracks. - IMG 6126
Hellfire pass: try chiseling by hand, with sadistic Japanese guards throwing rocks down on you. I dare you. - IMG 6127
Our first taste of jungle-walking. - IMG 6128
A tour group that's way bigger than ours. - IMG 6129
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I had never heard a word of this, but evidently during WW2, the Japanese (who had taken over Thailand and basically everywhere else in Asia) decided they needed a railroad to Burma, so they took some western POWs and a whole lot of Asian laborers and basically worked them to death building the thing. They hacked out this pass with hand drills in something like three weeks. - IMG 6131
looking up from bottom - IMG 6132
our mini-group - IMG 6134
Leslie and view - IMG 6135
an overlook from the Hellfire Pass museum - IMG 6674
Monday: wine tasting in Napa Valley - IMG 6675
We went to the Coppola winery, a strange collection of wine products, the history of film, nautical memorabilia, and large displays from several Coppola films (here: Apocalypse Now). - IMG 6676
You know I just took these pictures for Bryan. - IMG 6677
Godfather Oscars - IMG 6678
Us At Mumm, tasting sparkling wine. - IMG 6679
On the tour: grapes - IMG 6683
It's getting close to harvest time. - IMG 6684
Giant vats of grape juice, yeast, and sugar, on its way to being wine. - IMG 6686
Delia in front of a lab, which looked like her own, with fewer dead mice. - IMG 6687
the "putting wine into crates" room