Yesterday I drove to Sonoma to take part in the VOMPC Octoberfest.
I am not a big beer guzzler or a sauerkraut chomper but I like to schmooze and that’s why I went there.
From our club, I met Le Facteur, Jean-Claude Bunand and Jean-Claude Etallaz.
I didn’t plan to play and I didn’t, but a bunch of people from other clubs showed up ready to rumble.
It looked like the event was organized and run by Alan Brauermeister (which incidentally stands for “master brewer”) and he did his shtick dresses appropriately in lederhosen.
Peter Mathis also looked swell in his leather shorts and suspenders.
As I said before, I didn’t play but indulged in one of my favorite pastime: taking candid shots of people being themselves.
I took a bunch of pictures that came out pretty damn well if I may say so.
But I’ll let you be the judge.
The weather was fair and the mood congenial. There was about an equal number of men and women and everything went swimmingly.
Congrats Wolfie!
I don’t know who won the Concours or the Consolante and it is not important, but what I know is that everybody had a good time and that was the only important thing.
Enjoy the pictures! For best effect, go “Full screen”.
Alain
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To help keeping this junk off of the Internet, Gmail bounces back mail that they think is spam.
It is for this reason that I cannot anymore send messages to a large number of people at the same time.
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