Tag: Travel
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A Whole Lotto Beer

My wife and I are in Sonoma County. We love making this trip every year. My best advice to anyone visiting wine country is this – beer. This is the story of how we got 3 free beers from 3 different places in the same bar on the same day.
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Seeing the World through Rose-Colored Glass

My wife and I visited Judson Studios. What I want to say simply is that this visit was probably the best tour we’ve taken. Most tours are run by a hired hand who has a script. You walk down certain paths that are marked so as to not disturb the surroundings, and if there are…
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It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like….

New York City. Because it takes 10 minutes for me to remember what it’s like in NY, and 10 minutes to remember what it’s LIKE in NYC, I present to you 20 minutes of things to do in the city.
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Two Wrights Don’t Make it Rong
This was written on 12/16/2003, and emailed to a bunch of friends, family and co-workers. I pity them. In the nearly 21 years since I wrote this article, it is amazing to see all the changes that have happened to airline travel: Fees, More fees, Still More Fees, and Spirit Airlines.
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Going Dutch (Coffee, that is)

Recently a new Dutch Bros Coffee kiosk opened in a parking lot near LarryLand. As we learned in my article Half Baked (See Half-Baked ), I am the king of non-committal coffee drinks. So, there was much excitement in the kingdom; we were committed to trying it. Is it the ‘Bucks or the ‘Bros?
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Going Around in Circles
I saw a bumper sticker that read “I’m Taking the Long Way – Siri gave me directions”. How true. Despite my continuing conspiracy theory about how Siri is trying to kill us, I had time to ponder this on my way to the desert to see Mom. Little did I know that I’d be gaining…
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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 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…