“A Valley That Becomes More Exquisite As We Descend.“
“And so we ride on and on, down through Ukiah, and Hopland, and Cloverdale, down into the wine country. ”
Five miles North of Hopland, CA. In the Ukiah Valley (Also called Yokayo Valley), We are now following in the Northern California Valley of the Russian River, which the Narrator later calls “ …. down into the wine country.” This river, which originates from the mountains North of Ukiah CA, flows thru Mendoceno Lake. It then follows a valley, between two mountain ranges, for some 50 miles Southeast to Fulton, CA where it turns abruptly West. Here, it cuts through the western mountain range, to the Pacific Ocean. In this “wine country”, let’s remember a statement the Narrator made while we were back in the last high mountains of Oregon just prior to Medford OR (p317). There the Narrator, in anticipation of this very area of California said: “The road [they are on] drops steeply into a valley that becomes more exquisite as we descend. I never thought I would call a valley that—exquisite—but there’s something about this whole coastal country so different from any other mountainous region in America that it brings out the word. Here, “ [and] “a little farther south, is where all our good wine comes from. “
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