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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 June 15, 2019 Vicksburg Mississippi
We traveled to Vicksburg Mississippi especially for the Vicksburg National Military Park. But while there, we also had time for a brief exploration of the city. While we were quite disappointed by the early closing of the Old Depot museum (an old railroad station) with its film, diorama and explanation of the “Gibraltar [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Mississippi, North America, Restaurants, Travel, United States, Vicksburg By Joyce on June 11, 2019 Memphis Restaurants
Restaurant Iris
We started dinner with two missteps:
The craw fish beignet with sauce ravigote which was so dry and tasteless that we returned it Our baked Alaskan halibut with edamame, shrimp dumpling, bacon, butter dashi and broiled daikon was also overcooked and returned.
The reordered halibut dish, by contrast, was wonderful as [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Memphis, North America, Restaurants, Tennessee, Travel, United States By Joyce on June 9, 2019 Although they are both in Tennessee, Nashville Tennessee and Memphis Tennessee are very different. While Nashville seems to have few buildings that are more than ten years old, Memphis seems to have few, if any that are less than ten years. Nashville streets are jammed with traffic, but Memphis’ were generally empty.
Yet Memphis does [Read more …]
Category: Destinations, Featured-City, Memphis, North America, Tennessee, Travel, United States
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By Joyce on May 26, 2019 The Jungle
Sometimes we forget history and it takes a good play to remind us.The Jungle is one such play. It reminds us of the horror that African and Middle Eastern refugees faced when they fled their countries in hopes of gaining amnesty in England. Twp. men who volunteered and created a theater at a [Read more …]
Category: Activities, California, Destinations, Featured-Trips, North America, San Francisco, SF-Passion, SF-Theater, Theater, Travel, United States 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
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