Oregon’s Willamette Valley is a huge region of rolling hills covered with majestic landscapes of farms and vineyards. The first pinot noir grapes were planted there in 1965 by David Lett, the Eyrie Vineyards. According to the Willamette AVA, today there are 316 wineries in the region stretching from Portland to Eugene. Our recent trip focused on the north region of the valley an hour … Continue reading The land of pinot’s………..
The day after Thanksgiving we took off driving north along Florida’s gulf coast to spend some time in the panhandle. We planned to stay in Carabelle the first night but the old hotel there was booked so we made our reservation to stay in Apalachicola. I will definitely plan a future road trip to Carabelle to experience what we missed – the Carabelle Hotel … Continue reading Road trip…………
August is a good time to depart Sarasota. The thought of experiencing a cooler climate becomes ever more enticing after two long months of hot and humid days and nights. John and I flew north to spend two weeks in some fantastic weather. Our first stop – Maine. On the drive from Portland to Blue Hill we stopped at Day’s for a lunch of lobster and … Continue reading Blue Hill to Sturgeon Bay…..
This August we had the pleasure of visiting Canada via Boston with a return through New York City. We planned an overnight in Boston to meet up with our daughter Sara who was heading back to Boise, ID in just a couple days. We stayed at The Park Plaza mostly for its convenient location but also because it is competitively priced, reliable and supporting historic … Continue reading Oh Canada!……….
I spent a whirlwind weekend in NYC in March to celebrate my aunt’s 90th birthday and get a quick city fix. I had one day of brisk, icy finger weather and the rest was almost summer like. It was a great trip. I covered a considerable amount of pavement in Manhattan, got to MOMA and to my favorite – The MAD Museum at Columbus Circle … Continue reading Notes from a special NYC trip……
*** WARNING *** Guest post (and first blog post ever) by someone who has no inkling of what they are doing! For the past 9 months or so, I have been perusing the wine recommendations circulated by K&L wines (www.klwines.com). This is a local wine shop that has what the Wall Street Journal called the best wine web site in the US – yet another reason we are … Continue reading Saxon Brown Syrah and Santa Lucia Highlands visit
My 60th birthday gift from John and some very special friends was an extravagant Christmas and New Years celebration in California with family and friends. After a rather frustrating delayed departure from Florida six of us arrived to spend seven days at Sea Ranch. Three hours north of San Francisco, Sea Ranch is an amazing utopian community stretching 10 miles along the rocky scenic coastline. … Continue reading California Coast December 2011……..
Why can’t real estate attorney conferences be held in locations like this?! Our wonderful Massachusetts/Florida friends Linda Sargent and Jim Lingley sent us this post from their recent medical conference trip and side adventure into the northern California wine region…….. Photo credit: Blake Marvin Photography Linda and I traveled to California (I had a Radiology meeting at the Half Moon Bay Ritz – where else … Continue reading Doctors in the wine country……
Good friends of ours had a wonderful adventure this summer leasing a small motor home to travel through Washington and Oregon with their young son. John shared some winery recommendations for their trip and Robert was kind enough to report back on their adventures in the northwest wine country. Parker inspecting the grapes at Sokol Blosser “Your recommendations for visiting wineries were spot-on. From your … Continue reading Summer travels…….
We escaped for a night to Ft. Myers, Florida. The city is only an hour and a half south of Sarasota but it may as well be hours away for as often as we have visited. The city is along the Caloosahatchee River and is well known for being the former winter home of Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford. Today it is best known … Continue reading Overnight to Ft. Myers……
John's Wine Cellar 