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- A Passion for Art, Learning and Culture
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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 March 25, 2019 As part of our time in Florida, we made a fast stop in Fort Meyers, to enjoy time with Tom’s sister. While we can’t say that this an area that we particularly enjoy (other than being with family), we did manage to find a few restaurants during our time there.
Fort Myers Area Restaurants [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Florida, Food & Wine, Fort Meyers, North America, Restaurants, Travel, United States By Joyce on March 23, 2019 We have done virtually everything there is to do in Key West, from parasailing above the coast to snorkeling and scuba diving beneath the seas. We have taken the obligatory Conch Train tour, sailed and kayaked its waterways as estuaries, browsed all the galleries and visited virtually every museum and historic site. (See our 2016 [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Dining, Featured-City, Florida, Food & Wine, Hotels, Hotels, Key West, Museums, North America, Restaurants, Travel, United States By Joyce on March 16, 2019 A Quick Sail Down the Florida Keys: Destination Key West
Driving from Miami Florida to Key West takes approximately 4 hours. When we drive down to Key West, we like to enjoy the views on the Overseas Highway. This 113 mile trip takes you on roadways and bridges that were built over the beautiful water [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Florida, Key West, Miami, North America, Travel, United States
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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 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
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