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By Joyce on October 13, 2019 Billings Montana
With 110,000 citizens, Billings is Montana’s largest city. It was created by and named for the president of the Northern Pacific railroad who built a key rail stop a few miles outside of Coulter. Although it has long-since disappeared, Coulter was an established town and paddle-wheel steamer stop.
The area grew into a [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Billings, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Montana, Nature & Hiking, North America, Restaurants, Travel, United States, Wine/Wineries By Joyce on October 10, 2019 In our last several blogs, we wrote about numerous places to visit in Montana. These included:
Ghost towns such as Virginia City and Nevada City Billings Montana; and Side trips around Billings Montana
This blog talks about some of the other places we visited in Montana.
Gardiner Montana
Gardiner Montana is a small town that [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Bozeman, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Gardiner, Hotels, Hotels, Montana, North America, Red Lodge, Restaurants, Travel, United States By Joyce on October 9, 2019 Virginia City—Ghost Town Modernized
Virginia City Montana was founded in 1863, after the discovery of gold in Adler Gulch. More than 10,000 prospective miners and suppliers flooded the area. Virginia City grew rapidly from settlement to boomtown to a full-fledged city of 5,000 permanent residents and more than 1,200 buildings within a few years. It [Read more …]
Category: Featured-City, Nevada City, Virginia Ciry
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By Joyce on October 10, 2019 Although we travel about 6 months a year, we rarely post reviews of individual airlines. We have been on some good ones and some not so good ones. Probably the best has been Emirates. Their coach is more like business class in the US. And the flight attendants are very good.
Many people detest [Read more …]
Category: Featured-Trips By Joyce on July 28, 2019 In case you haven’t figured it out yet, we are passionate about wine. On any trip,we always scout out local wine regions to educate ourselves and our readers about wines, wine events and wine regions. Living in San Francisco, some of the best wine regions and events are close to home. Just two hours north [Read more …]
Category: Destination Type, Featured-Trips, Food & Wine, SF-Passion, SF-Wine/Wineries, Travel, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine/Wineries By Joyce on June 16, 2019 What do you think of when you hear Andy Warhol? His Campbell’s Soup cans and Three Elvises? His prognostication of 15 minutes of fame, as the “creator” of the Pop Art movement? His early embrace of an openly gay lifestyle? Warhol certainly deserves recognition for all of these. A retrospective of Andy Warhol “A to [Read more …]
Category: Activities, California, Destinations, Featured-Trips, Museums, North America, San Francisco, Travel, United States
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