Category Beer, Wine and Alcohol
Egypt, Part Eleven
November 6 – 17 A short ride later we arrived at the house for our lunch. As in Aswan, here the street in front was not paved, dirty and dusty; likely the lack of rain makes this tolerable as you don’t have to deal much with mud. Inside though, the house was nicely decorated and […]
Egypt, Part Seven
November 6 – 17 Later, arriving at Karnak Temple, we walked to the entrance, entered, and began our tour. As he has throughout the tour, Mahmoud spent the first hour or so with us explaining the significance of the temple complex, going into great detail in the areas with hieroglyphics that told a particular story. […]
Egypt, Part Six
November 6 – 17 Before dinner I made my way down to the bar area of the hotel for a beer that put an exclamation point on a full day of sightseeing, having visited Abu Simbel, one of the sites in Egypt that had been at the top of my list. We’d hit the halfway […]
Egypt, Part Four
November 6 – 17 We returned to the Hotel AraCan to clean up and relax before taking off for the central train station and our overnight journey to Aswan. This would be the first time for Joanna and I to spend a night in a sleeper compartment (we’ve done some overnights early in our marriage […]
Egypt, Part One
November 6 – 17 And so, it began, a month of international travel starting with Egypt and finishing with Mexico, two countries we’d not been to with the exception of multiple forays into northern Baja California. We were curious to see how different, or similar, mainland Mexico would be from Baja, especially given that we’d […]
North Carolina Wedding
November 1 – 6 After returning from Arizona we spent the next three days preparing the house for a month’s vacancy, excepting some visits from friends and family taking advantage of its near the beach location. The night before our flight we celebrated by taking in a concert featuring one of our favorite live performers, […]
Southern Arizona Sunsets Bike Tour, Part Three
October 18 – 27 We left Tombstone on a clear morning with blue skies that would follow us all day. We decided not to stop in the downtown area (if you could call it that) to see the tourist street, multiple blocks of recreated late 1870’s cowboy town playing off the famous shoot out at […]
Southern Arizona Sunsets Bike Tour, Part One
October 18 – 27 We spent the next few days at home preparing for what would now be an extended period of time away, traveling for a little over a month to North Carolina, Egypt, and then Mexico. But first we’d take off for over a week and meet up with Adventure Cycling to participate […]
Central Coast Wine Weekend, Part Two
October 10-13 Finished with breakfast, we all took off to meet Ann and Doug at our first stop of the day, Andrew Murray Vineyards. Founded in 1990 when Jim and Fran Murray purchased 200 acres of fertile soil in the Santa Ynez Valley. With their son and winemaker Andrew Murray at the helm, this Los […]
Central Coast Wine Weekend, Part One
October 10-13 A couple of weeks after our Bay Area trip we kicked off the start of what would be almost two solid months of travel by meeting friends from Charlotte, Ann and Doug and Diane and Keith, in the Central California wine region near Santa Maria. But first we drove out to Sheila and […]
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