Mendocino Sentence Examples
Reaching the Pacific through the Strait of Magellan, Drake proceeded northward along the west coast of America, resolved to attempt the discovery of a northern passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The coast from the southern extremity of the Californian peninsula to Cape Mendocino had been discovered by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and Francisco de Ulloa in 1539.
Captain Vancouver was sent out to receive the cession, and to survey the coast from Cape Mendocino northwards.
The Canadian zone crosses from Canada into northern and northwestern Maine, northern and central New Hampshire, northern Michigan, and north-eastern Minnesota and North Dakota, covers the Green Mountains, most of the Adirondacks and Catskills, the higher slopes of the mountains in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, the lower slopes of the northern Rocky and Cascade Mountains, the upper slopes of the southern Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains, and a strip along the Pacific coast as far south as Cape Mendocino, interrupted, however, by the Columbia Valley.
The Pacific Coast Transition life-zone comprises the region between the Cascade and Coast ranges in Washington and Oregon, parts of northern California, and most of the California coast region from Cape Mendocino to Santa Barbara.
There are state hospitals for the insane at Agnew, Santa Clara county; at Stockton, San Joaquin county; at Napa, Napa county; at Patton, San Bernardino county; and, with a colony of tubercular patients, at Ukiah, Mendocino county.
Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake County comprise the rest of the region.
Parts of Mendocino and Sonoma are directly exposed to the sea and are becoming known for cooler-climate wines, Pinot Noir in particular.
The 2005 version of their medium-bodied Mendocino County Pinot Noir from some unnamed winery is succulent, fruit-rich, and balanced.
This is a coastal mountain region that probably has more in common with Mendocino than with Napa Valley.
I liked this map for its detail and that it also covers Lake County and Mendocino County beyond Napa.
AdvertisementGranted, both Mendocino and Lake County are not as easy to get to and you feel that you are traveling alot of backroads sometimes, but the road makes for a worthy journey.
There are more organic wineries in Mendocino than the rest of California as well.
Try the Boonville Hotel for a good central Mendocino locale.
Napa, Sonoma, Paso Robles, Mendocino, Santa Barbara…if you've gone wine tasting, chances are you went to one of these regions.
The Mendocino hotel is a beautifully restored hotel in the heart of Mendocino, a historic lumber port along the same shipping route as Crescent City.
AdvertisementThe Mendocino was opened in 1878 and was known as the "Temperance House" at the time.