Category Beer, Wine and Alcohol
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Five
June 3 – 14, 2021 Our drive to Greensboro (Summerfield) to Ann and Rendy’s would only take about ninety minutes, so again we had no need to hurry that Tuesday morning. This gave us a chance to do a load of laundry (one advantage of staying in an Airbnb unit is often some form of […]
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Four
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Four June 3 – 14, 2021 I forgot to note in the previous post that we had one more random encounter that Sunday with folks we know, reinforcing what we like about Charlotte, in that during our stop at Optimist Hall, we encountered Judith and Eric who were hosting a […]
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Three
June 3 – 14, 2021 With another full day ahead of us, we lit out from the condo around 8am to stop for donuts and coffee at a Dunkin’ on Sugar Creek before arriving at George’s place at 9am. We’d spend the next hour with him, remembering times past, catching up on the present, the […]
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Two
June 3 – 14, 2021 Heading out of the airport was like returning home; hard to believe that just 11 years in a place can make it seem like somewhere you spent most of your life. This trip for us would be different than the many we usually we take, in that we’d be doing […]
Hot Springs 2021, Part Five
May 13 – 24, 2021 Our next day in Henderson would be a full one, starting with dropping off the BMW at the dealer to replace a burned-out driving light. Leaving it until later in the day, we all made our way to one of the highlights of the weekend, Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart. It […]
Hot Springs 2021, Part Four
May 13 – 24, 2021 It was much cooler the next day and after lingering on the front porch for a good stretch of the morning we donned swimsuits and walked over to the large pool, nicely warmed due to ambient temperature and its adjacent small pools that were a touch warmer. Sufficiently cooled down […]
Hot Springs 2021, Part Three
May 13 – 24, 2021 We left Manzanar and drove the 13 miles or so back to Lone Pine to grab a bite to eat at the McDonalds there, making sure we would be full until we reached Tecopa, our destination for the day. We’d be driving through Death Valley which has limited dining options […]
Hot Springs 2021, Part One
May 13 – 24, 2021 May arrived with rapidly declining Covid rates and Joanna and I fully vaccinated, began to plan for a return to our routine of the last seven years of abundant travel. This next trip would mirror those we did last year during the height of the crisis, indeed much of what […]
Europe – Why Do We Love It So 1977, Part Two
And so, I arrived in Calais, bidding my German acquaintances a fond auf Wiedersehen and wondering what opportunities I might have passed up in doing so. The road taken though doesn’t allow for much looking back or regrets as I purchased my passage across the channel and prepared to wait for the next ferry. It […]
Buellton Bike Weekend Spring 2021, Part One
April 16 – 19 As the pandemic begins to subside (as of this writing both Joanna and I are fully vaccinated) we can begin to pursue a more aggressive travel agenda, one that will fill the second half of 2021 much as we did in 2019 after our move back to Los Angeles. We did […]
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