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Gourmet On A Train: Ditch Cooking For A Napa Wine Dinner

There is a certain romantic allure to train travel—just ask fictional sweethearts Jesse and Céline of Before Sunrise. But Stateside, unfortunately, the mode of transport isn't as common as it is in other parts of the world. While you continue to dream about hopping aboard a Darjeeling Railway car, we're happy to report that a smaller-scale train trek can be had in California, even if it is less grand than journeying across exotic international ground.

The Napa Valley Wine Train is a refined alternative to unofficial "drunk buses" tourists often book to stay safe while sipping wine flights throughout the day. Equally drinker-friendly, and much more respectable, the train is holding a special Thanksgiving dinner aboard its Gourmet and Vista Dome cars for $104 and $139, respectively. Sadly, lunch tickets have already sold out.

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The Napa Ice Cream Truck War

Life in bucolic Napa Valley is in uproar over ice cream trucks. (Hey, when you have nothing to worry about sometimes you just have to come up with something.) Residents are pissed that the jingling melodies from local ice cream trucks are too loud. The city council has decided the noise needs regulating.

New rules are being drafted that will set a decibel limit, possibly prohibit music when the trucks are stopped and limit how frequently they can travel through the towns.

One local thinks the whole thing's ridiculous:

Hap Jackson of Sierra Avenue,...said "the people who complain must have no life. If they don't, they should go out and get one."

Yea Hap! The ultimate put-down. We think we agree....

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