Category Beer, Wine and Alcohol
Thanksgiving and Christmas 2022, Part Four
November 16 – December 31 One of our goals for dining this time around in Fort Bragg was to enjoy good seafood. Ultimately, we’d not fulfill this desire but still ate well none the less. We checked out options on Trip Advisor that night, but many of our first choices were closed that evening and […]
Thanksgiving and Christmas 2022, Part Three
November 16 – December 31 A week or so after arriving home we participated in a unique cycling event in Los Angeles known as CicLAvia. Started as a grassroots initiative in 2008 by several individuals who recognized that open streets events could address active transportation, urban land use, and public health needs in Los Angeles. […]
Thanksgiving and Christmas 2022, Part Two
November 16 – December 31 The drive the next day would not be particularly long, but we wanted to get to Henderson early in the afternoon in order to stand in line to pick up a Honey Baked Ham, a lengthy process given the popularity of that product at Thanksgiving. We timed our departure to […]
Thanksgiving and Christmas 2022, Part Two
November 16 – December 31 In early November I received the cortisone injection and it did, over time, reduce the amount of pain and discomfort in my hip, but not entirely, as can be the case sometimes. With the deadline approaching to pay the balance for our planned trip to South America, I continued to […]
Northern California and Oregon Fall 2022, Part Two
October 13 – 24 Joanna’s experience at the Glass Forge Gallery Tuesday afternoon, before we met Tom at the Bohemian, was fun and enlightening. We drove into Grants Pass from Kamp Angst, and I dropped Joanna off early in the afternoon as she had signed up for a session ahead of time and when she […]
Northern California and Oregon Fall 2022, Part One
October 13 – 24 Soon after our return from North Carolina, we ventured north to Oakland to celebrate Jessica’s birthday and use the time to visit Kamp Angst in Oregon. This would be our second visit to the house Jessica and Kris had purchased at the beginning of September, and we were looking forward to […]
Cisco Fest 2022, Part Nine
September 16 – 28 When we finished our breakfast at the Goodwurst Company, Jay suggested we head over to the Ballantyne neighborhood to check out the Architects of Air Luminarium exhibition that was part of the Charlotte International Arts Festival held there. Luminarium Is the brainchild of Alan Parkinson, an English photographer who in 1992 […]
Cisco Fest 2022, Part Eight
September 16 – 28 Sunday dawned bright and clear, and I hung out at the apartment until it was time to head up to Summit Coffee in Davidson to meet Joanna (after her book club outing) and members of her Carolina family, including Debi, daughter Kristen and her husband Brian, and Shaun’s partner Hannah and […]
Cisco Fest 2022, Part Seven
September 16 – 28 I landed in Charlotte around noon for what would be almost a week of catching up with our many friends and former neighbors there. Joanna picked me up at the airport and our first order of business was lunch, as we’d be consuming mass quantities of vino, as it our usual […]
Cisco Fest 2022, Part Six
September 16 – 28 In anticipation of our touring the Evan Williams Bourbon Experience at 1:30, Doug opted to miss the tour and have lunch with a relative who works downtown. To kill time the rest of us hit a Starbuck’s a couple of blocks away, a welcome break from the alcohol-heavy routine we’d been […]
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