Redding Unplanned: After Couple’s Visit to Wine Country, Nature Take Its Course, and Them, to Northern California

Rewind and relax on an capricious adventure in Redding.

Allegretto Vineyard Resort in Paso Robles. Benjamin Myers/TNS

By Marlise Kast-Myers From Tribune News Service

It was two days before Thanksgiving when my husband, Benjamin, and I stood on a jet bridge in San Diego awaiting our flight north to San Luis Obispo. It had been a rough month of deadlines, diagnoses, and drama that rattled us enough to prioritize living in the moment.