7-Eleven

Napa’s Redwood Road 7-​Eleven has the MOST challenging parking lot in the Valley. The Starbucks at Lincoln/​Jefferson and the Auto-​Zone at Lincoln/​Soscol are easier to enter in comparison. Like an astronaut, one must carefully negotiate the point of entry. It’s like «Apollo 13» when Tom Hanks realizes that if he goes in too sharply, the pod will burst into flames, and if it goes in too lightly, it will bounce off the atmosphere and into the depths of space. So, I entered the parking lot with extreme care.
The 7-​Eleven has a good assortment of breakfast items, and they carry chocolate creamers! My coffee tasted like hot chocolate and the marshmallows made it sweetly sumptuous. The Brazilian Bold blend puts the burnt sophisticated Starbucks lattes across the street to utter shame.
There’s a great assortment of magazines, and a Redbox out front so one can enjoy the guilty pleasure of cheesy movies (along with the guilty pleasure of 7-​Eleven fare)
The Redwood Road location is fitting. Having driven the Lakeport/​Cloverdale/​Ukiah route through the redwoods, that was equally challenging.
Thank heaven for 7-​Eleven!