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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 February 13, 2019 Australian Wines
The annual Australian Wine Winter Trade Tasting recently came to San Francisco. It took place at the pretty, The Pearl in the Dogpatch area. The event provided a wonderful opportunity for us to learn about and sample a wide range of Australian wines from most of the country’s dozens of wine regions—many of [Read more …]
Category: Adelaide Hills, austra, Australia, Barossa Valley, Barossa Valley, California, Coonawarra, Destination Type, Destinations, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Hunter Valley, McLaren Vale, Mornington, Mornington Peninsula, New South Wales, North America, Oceania/Australia, San Francisco, South Australia, Tasmania, Travel, United States, Victoria, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine/Wineries, Yarra Valley By Joyce on February 7, 2019 Sunday, February 2, 2019, was not only the day before Super Bowl Sunday, it was also the day of a Silver Oak release party in Oakville California. The long-awaited day was for the official release of the Silver Oak 2014 Napa Valley Cabernet.
The day itself was rainy with periodic downpours that flooded the vineyards.
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Category: California, Destinations, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Napa, North America, Travel, United States, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine/Wineries By Joyce on January 30, 2019 Bordeaux is a famous wine region in France that is mostly associated with red wine blends. But it also produces some delicious Sauvignon Blanc white blends and Sauternes. The Gironde Estuary divides the region into a Left Bank area and a Right Bank area. Each region has different terroir, style and character.
Left Bank [Read more …]
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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 …]
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