Category Beer, Wine and Alcohol
Europe 2025 Porto, Part One
March 26-30 Last summer Jessica and Kris received an invitation from their friend Meg for her wedding which was scheduled to take place at the end of April in a small-town Portugal, about two hours east of Lisbon. It was soon decided that we, along with Kim and Marty, would join them and that we […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Five
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 Finished with lunch, a group of us hopped back on the shuttle bus to head the short distance to the Ahwahnee Hotel for a drink at its bar, the one we’ve come to know so well. We had thought about dining there one of the nights in its famous and […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Four
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 Three weeks after our return from Oakland and Paso Robles we made plans to travel separately, Joanna to North Carolina to join her fellow book club members to celebrate the club’s 25th anniversary with a couple of in the mountains of North Carolina outside of Charlotte. In the meantime, I […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Three
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 The rain finally stopped overnight and although it was quite chilly, not needing to rush back to Oakland Joanna and I finally got that bike ride it we’d been wanting to do. We managed to eke out 16 miles before time constraints, and the cold, made us turn around and […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Two
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 With rain and cold forecast for the next morning we loitered in the room and then around noon got some coffee at a nearby Starbucks and headed west on Highway 46 over the Santa Lucia Coastal Mountains to the coast highway, then turned north at Cambria to make our way […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part One
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 With a two-month trip to Europe scheduled to start at the end of March 2025, we focused on trips to Henderson for Thanksgiving, Solana Beach for Christmas, Oakland for New Years and other short visits in California. I’ll report on two here, the first being a three-night stay in Paso […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Portales, Flagstaff, and Home
October27- 30, 2024 With a nearly ten-hour drive ahead of us we got an early start, and this time had smooth sailing all the way to Portales, where we’d spend two nights visiting with Kemet. We would stay at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Portales, which was a Best Western the last time we […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Corpus Christi
October24- 26, 2024 Knowing we had a relatively simple six-hour drive from Lafayette to Corpus Christi and since it was a Friday, that Stephanie and Lee would be working that day, we had no need to rush out of town for the journey. So, we stopped in at Poupart’s again for some coffee to go, […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Lafayette
October18- 20, 2024 Our short four-hour drive to Lafayette went smoothly and we arrived at check-in time at Paz’s place Airbnb. We’ve had good luck with Airbnb in rarely having booking’s cancelled (only once before I memory) but this trip brought us two, the first in Amelia Island and now here in Lafayette. About a […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Spanish Fort/Mobile, Part Two
October18- 20, 2024 As mentioned in the last post, we had one last stop on the agenda for the day, and that was at the Oakleigh House, the centerpiece of the Oakleigh Historic Complex, a grouping of buildings that contain a working-class raised cottage, Union Barracks, and a modern archives building. The name for the […]
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