Category: Travel
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LarryLand Meets DisneyLand
So our friends Matt and Heidi made the dubious decision to take their kids on an 8+ hour drive from Northern California to visit Disneyland for 3 days. It’s “Magical” as my daughter would say. Its exhausting is what I would say; we have experience. However, they’re wonderful people and we jumped at the chance…
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Thirty-Six years in the Making
After 36 years, we finally get to spend Thanksgiving with you in Vermont. We may never be the same – at the very least we’ll probably never lose the approximately 1,000 pounds we gained feasting. Thanksgiving is a time of tradition, regardless the coast you are on. We visited from California, 36 years in the…
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Getting it Wright
In this morning’s papers, there was a quote that Orville and Wilbur Wright proved in 1903 that “you could make a heavier-than-air craft that would take off and fly and not fall down, but it didn’t mean you could fly from Los Angeles to London right away”. That’s true – you still had to clear…
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The Cook I Want To Be
My favorite bookstore in Sonoma, Reader’s Books, has a great cookbook selection. I happened across this book. It begs the question, exactly what kind of cook do I want to be? My friends and family would say either Jacques Pepin or Julia Child. They would be sure that the are correct. They would be wrong.…
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Twenty Years
Twenty years. That’s how many years we have come to Sonoma County for vacation. Time has passed very quickly indeed. Still, every time that we start the drive up Highway 12 from Sonoma to Santa Rosa I still can’t believe how beautiful this place is and how lucky we are to be here.
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I’m a NY City Transit Authority
Getting around the Big Apple takes a bit of work. This is a city that has not a single apple tree, but lots of cabs; their honking is why it is a city that “never sleeps”. More to the point, it is an experiment in Social Darwinism. Only the strong survive.
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The First and Last
What makes a good wine? Go to any tasting room and they’ll tell you of the process. Ignore them. They’ve never made wine. We learned more about wine simply sitting around their table on the farm. A couple of bottles, some really good cheese from Sharon’s Cheese Shop (no she didn’t own it, but we…
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