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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 July 22, 2019 Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.) is a section of the state located north of Wisconsin and sandwiched between the beautiful coastlines of Lake Michigan (to the south) and Lake Superior (to the North).
While originally a site for trapping and lumber, and by the 19th century, especially mining iron and copper, it now primarily serves as [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Hotels, Michigan, Munising, North America, Restaurants, Travel, United States By Joyce on July 19, 2019 Baraboo Wisconsin? Well, why not. While we really didn’t check out the town, we did make a stop at Devil’s Lake State Park.
Devil’s Lake State Park
The park was created around a glacial lake surrounded on three sides by quartzite clefs. The cliff faces were covered with boulders that fell victim to water that [Read more …]
Category: Baraboo, Destinations, Featured-City, North America, Travel, United States, Wisconsin By Joyce on July 17, 2019 We drove through several additional Wisconsin towns, and of course, stopped to taste Wisconsin cheese
Port Washington Wisconsin
A pretty city with a number of 19th-century buildings, with its main street overseen by St. Mary’s church, sitting on a hill at the head of the street. It also has a pretty Lake Michigan shoreline park [Read more …]
Category: Destinations, Featured-City, Green Bay, Kewaunee, North America, Port Washington, Travel, United States, Wisconsin
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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 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
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