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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 September 18, 2019 We were on the way from San Francisco to Yosemite National Park. To get there, we took a break from the long drive from San Francisco with a few stops along the way to some beautiful mountain towns,
Murphys California
Murphys California is a pretty, historic, gold mining town. Many of its business district buildings [Read more …]
Category: Activities, California, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Hotels, Hotels, Mariposa, Murphys, North America, Sierras, Travel, United States, Wine/Wineries By Joyce on September 16, 2019 We recently spent a few days exploring Sierra Foothills of El Dorado and Amador Counties in California. The trip took us through some of the area’s prettiest and most historic gold Rush boom towns.
Sierra Foothill Boom towns
We explored three gold-based boom towns in the Sierra Foothills. Two of the boom towns continue to [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Hotels, Hotels, Wine/Wineries By Joyce on September 14, 2019 We recently spent a few nights in Mendocino California. We always enjoy the town’s 19th-century town’s character, its water towers, gardens and lovely residential streets. While we rarely visit most of the touristy stores, we never seem to tire of strolling through the headlands or the town’s streets. And as a bonus, during our stroll [Read more …]
Category: Activities, California, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Hotels, Hotels, Mendocino, North America, Restaurants, Travel, United States, Wine/Wineries
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By Joyce on July 28, 2019 In case you haven’t figured it out yet, we are passionate about wine. On any trip,we always scout out local wine regions to educate ourselves and our readers about wines, wine events and wine regions. Living in San Francisco, some of the best wine regions and events are close to home. Just two hours north [Read more …]
Category: Destination Type, Featured-Trips, Food & Wine, SF-Passion, SF-Wine/Wineries, Travel, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine/Wineries By Joyce on June 16, 2019 What do you think of when you hear Andy Warhol? His Campbell’s Soup cans and Three Elvises? His prognostication of 15 minutes of fame, as the “creator” of the Pop Art movement? His early embrace of an openly gay lifestyle? Warhol certainly deserves recognition for all of these. A retrospective of Andy Warhol “A to [Read more …]
Category: Activities, California, Destinations, Featured-Trips, Museums, North America, San Francisco, Travel, United States 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
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