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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 January 16, 2019 Churchill Manitoba
We went to Churchill Manitoba Canada to see polar bears in their natural habitat. This 900-person frontier town is one of the true polar bear and beluga whale capitals of the world. Cloud cover permitting, it also provides a great opportunity to experience the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights.
Churchill is located [Read more …]
Category: Canada, Churchill, Destinations, Featured-City, Manitoba, North America, Travel By Joyce on January 13, 2019 Most of our trips to Canada have been either to the east coast or the west coast. We have never been to Winnipeg. Not to knock the city, but it isn’t exactly a destination city for us. But Winnipeg was the gateway city for our next adventure….to Manitoba to see the polar bears. We made [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Canada, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Hotels, Hotels, Manitoba, North America, Restaurants, Travel, Winnipeg By Joyce on January 11, 2019 The Pool
The Pool is the sister restaurant to the Seagram Buildings, The Grill, is a dramatic space with roughly 30-foot ceilings and tranquil, thread-like floor-to-ceiling windows. Its food and service are as impressive as the space. We were intrigued by the whole branzino for two, grilled over what is claimed to be a special, [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, New York, New York City, North America, Restaurants, Travel, United States
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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 By Joyce on January 2, 2019 San Francisco’s DeYoung museum is always a treat to visit. We recently checked out two lovely and illuminating special exhibits.
Contemporary Muslim Fashions
We are used to seeing the traditional, loose-fitting black abayas and hijabs that Muslim women wear. But this exhibit shows eye-opening fashion that is unlike what we expected. The exhibition showed [Read more …]
Category: Activities, California, Destinations, Featured-Trips, Museums, North America, San Francisco, Travel, United States By Joyce on December 31, 2018 A Virtual Stroll through San Francisco’s Unreal Garden
What happens when technology and creativity cross paths? Lots of interesting things. And one right in San Francisco.
The Unreal Garden is an immersive, 3D Augmented Reality extravaganza that brings art to life. At first glance, you only see a rather pallid-looking physical representation of a [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Art, California, Destinations, Featured-Trips, North America, San Francisco, SF-Art, SF-Passion, Travel, United States
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