A three-week cross-country road trip can be thrilling. It can also be exhausting and challenging if you aren’t prepared. These are the things that made life easier and the things that took up space.
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A family emergency called me home, so I’m afraid I’m woefully behind on holiday coverage. But I can tell you that I very much hope…
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A visit to Napa Valley Olive Oil in St. Helena, California, was a long-held desire for Andy. And it makes sense. He does most of…
View More Discovering Napa Valley Olive Oil
You would be amazed at the many stunning Japanese gardens located in and around Los Angeles. We first started seeing them pop up on television…
View More Touring a Japanese Garden in Pasadena
From the moment I first saw the ads online, I knew I wanted to get tickets to the Immersive Van Gogh art exhibit when it…
View More Experiencing the Immersive Van Gogh Art Exhibit
A Napa Valley wine tasting tour had been my goal for several years. Andy and I almost went five years ago for his mother’s birthday,…
View More Tips For Your First Napa Valley Wine Tasting
One surprising highlight of our Inglenook wine tasting was the chance to leisurely roam through a mini museum. It turns out that when the Coppolas…
View More Visiting Francis Ford Coppola’s Inglenook Museum
Has it been a weird week for you? It has been such a strange week for us. I feel like I have been off a…
View More Things You May Have Missed — Friday, September 16
Our last stop on our Napa Valley wine tasting tour was Inglenook Winery. We chose Inglenook for two reasons: 1) I had delighted in Rubicon…
View More Napa Valley Wine Tasting #6: Inglenook Winery
Our Napa Valley wine tasting tour itinerary left some room for happy discoveries. Even in May, you had to make reservations for tastings, so spontaneity…
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