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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 19, 2019 Antebellum Natchez Mississippi
Natchez Mississippi is a lovely, small city built atop a tall bluff over the Mississippi. Its historic district has the largest collection of antebellum homes in the country. Since it used to be home to some of the country’s most wealthy cotton plantation owners, it has a number of beautiful mansions which [Read more …]
Category: Activities, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Hotels, Hotels, Mississippi, Nachez, North America, Restaurants, Travel, United States By Joyce on June 17, 2019 Port Gibson is a small town in Mississippi. While it was not a particular destination on our radar list, we drove through it when we were going from Vicksburg to Natchez Mississippi.
The town has an impressive County Courthouse and some nice churches. Along a small section of the relaxing, scenic tranquil Natchez Trace, it [Read more …]
Category: Destinations, Featured-City, Mississippi, North America, Port Gibson, Travel, United States 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
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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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