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Our passion for art, learning and culture all began after finishing graduate school when we moved to…
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- A Passion for Food and Wine
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We love food. We love wine. But while we certainly enjoy the aromas, tastes and textures of both, we…
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- A Passion for the San Francisco Bay Area
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Tom and Joyce love exploring, finding interesting restaurants, touring wine regions, hiking and goin…
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- A Passion for Travel
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Tom and Joyce seem to have been born to travel. Although neither of us experienced much of it as chi…
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By Joyce on May 24, 2019 The Changing Face of Nashville Tennessee
We last visited Nashville Tennessee many years ago. Although we are not fans of Country and Western music, we enjoyed the bustle of Broadway Street’s honky tonks, the fun, but somewhat kitchy show of the Grand Ole Opry, and the overarching culture of music that pervades the city.
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Category: Destinations, Featured-City, Nashville, North America, Tennessee, Travel, United States By Joyce on May 1, 2019 O our recent trip to New York City, we caught up with some museums and special exhibits. If you are planning on a trip there soon, some of these exhibits should still be around.
Brant Foundation’ Jean-Michel Basquiat Exhibition
Jean-Michel Basquiat is a high school dropout and graffiti street artist who turned neo-expressionist master’s paintings, [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Destinations, Featured-City, Museums, New York, New York City, North America, Travel, United States
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By Joyce on April 8, 2019 Monet: The Late Years
San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum has outdone itself with its stunning 2019 exhibition, Monet: The Late Years.
The exhibit covers the last 13 years of the pioneering Impressionist master’s life (1913-1926). It includes almost 50 paintings of his Giverny home and gardens.
Although many publicly revered, financially successful artists spend their last [Read more …]
Category: Activities, California, Destinations, Featured-Trips, Museums, North America, San Francisco, Travel, United States By Joyce on January 28, 2019 We went to Churchill Manitoba Canada to learn about and to see polar bears–the world’s largest land predator. Along the way, we learned a lot about polar bears and other animals and fauna of the subarctic tundra. While we didn’t necessary look at this trip as educational in terms of climate change, one cannot help [Read more …]
Category: Canada, Churchill, Destinations, Featured-Trips, Manitoba, North America, Travel By Joyce on January 9, 2019 You can find New York City Art in museums. But you can also find it in other places. Look around you on the streets. Go into galleries. We always find things that catch our eye. On our Fall 2018 trip to New York City, we found a lot of interesting art.
School of Visual Arts [Read more …]
Category: Destinations, Featured-Trips, New York, New York City, North America, Travel, United States
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