When your goddaughter sends you an invitation to attend her wedding in Bermuda, what do you do? You go. A desire to travel to Bermuda had long been on my… [Continue Reading]
Category: Food Wine and Travel
When our Wine Review Council met to do some serious wine tasting, we had the holidays in mind. The table was set in a Christmas plaid, and the wine… [Continue Reading]
Warm, rustic, inviting, chic. Those would be great words to describe The Smoking Goat in the North Park area of San Diego. French food can be overly rich or it… [Continue Reading]
You can’t grow lemons without water. That’s the lesson James Hartley learned when he tried to start a lemon orchard in the North Park area of San Diego. His original… [Continue Reading]
With the holidays coming up, it’s a great time to plan what wines you will be serving with your celebrations. The Wine Review Council met recently to test out… [Continue Reading]
A Fairy Godmother waved her magic wand, and Oceanside became a Cinderella of a beach town in Southern California. During the late 1990’s, I lived in Carlsbad. I was… [Continue Reading]
What a difference a mountain pass makes! Cross over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State and you have gone from rainy to 260 days of sunshine. My mother grew… [Continue Reading]
Albuquerque sits right under the beautiful Sandia mountain range and has an elevation of 5,312 feet in a high desert. This is one of the oldest cities in the country… [Continue Reading]
What makes a perfect getaway for a few days? For me, it’s water, a beautiful hotel, shopping, some art, and good restaurants. I spent a couple of days in beautiful… [Continue Reading]
A quick trip to Costa Mesa was a welcome shopping change for me from the usual. While it might be beneficial to travel to one of the large… [Continue Reading]
