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Sep '07

On The Road To Markleeville.

Yesterday must have been busy — short blog entry. Time got away from me with dinner for the boys, and Nibilicious and Matt (two of the other gay rafters).

Dinner was a stunning success with Lunetta doing the dishes, me doing the Chicken Florenmarkie, and the most amazing salad by Mr. Onyx.

So — yesterday’s wine haul? Another 57 liters — including 6 liters of Sangria! Thought I had it all worked out, but seems I’m twelve liters short (that would be four boxes). The van is starting to look like a rolling wine store for box wine.

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By the numbers:

  • 123 liters of box wine. 14 people, 23 days. Average cost per bottle? $3.74 (thanks to the score on the Carmenet Merlot at a 2-for-1 price)
  • Total wine bill? $613.30
  • My portion of the wine bill (10%)$59.83 — for three weeks of wine drinking!
  • Grocery bills for my dinner/breakfast/lunch combo? $76.49 for an cost per person of $5.46

Markleeville is about a 3.5 hour drive with a stop for gas and more wine. Guess I’d better get packing and stop blogging. Depending on what I get in the way of signal, this could be it for the next two weeks.

Let’s hope I survive to tell about it!

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One Response to “On The Road To Markleeville.”

  1. Susan Says:

    Have a wonderful journey and a happy adventure-bring home lots of laughs and your self.

    Tried the projector-not for us. We will return it to your place in the next day or so – it is intact but couldn’t make it work with what I have-even with the 256 page manual I printed out for you. But I can see why it is a nice feature for movie parties- it needs to be in a space like you have. No issues.

    Concentrate on your driving and hang on going down the river. What a lot of wine-we have both forgotten how many people are on this trip.

    Happy Rafting!

    Don and Sue

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