Raving review about the Longshadow Ranch Winery in Temecula, California
Top Five Hikes in San Diego
In the days of corona virus, people around the world are itching to simply get outside of their house. Daydreaming about what hike to take next, I compiled my top five favorite hikes in San Diego and the surrounding areas. Sunset Cliffs Sunset cliffs is a beautiful winding hike above the waves in west of…
Corral Canyon, San Diego County, Offroading Adventure
I have a Jeep Wrangler. Not a souped up one, as my Jeep is my daily driver and the gas mileage is low enough as it is for commuting to and from work as it is. I’ve always been a bit conservative with the roads I take off-roading, though perhaps that’s my own cowardice and…
Quiet in Camas – Exploring the Hood River Gorge
While researching places to stay around Portland, we found this quiet looking town on the river about an hour’s drive from the Portland airport. Camas, Washington, boasted a historic, quaint hotel that we very much wanted to try out. Our local friends also recommended the wine tasting in Hood River, only another few hours down…
Cheese Anyone? The Tillamook Cheese Factory
One of the truest, most sad ironies of my life is that I love cheese, ice cream, and all things dairy, but I’m lactose intolerant. After numerous recommendations from friends and family, fueled by our love for cheese, we visited Tillamook, Oregon, to get the delicious goodness straight from the source. Bless these people. Seriously.…
Exploring Portland, OR
Phillip and I try to plan vacations around our birthdays, and my trend seems to be getting away to the woods for my birthday in the fall. This past year, we stole away to Portland, Oregon, and spent some time enjoying fall scenery that you can’t find in Southern California. Some friends of ours that…
Hop on and off.. and on… and off… Rome
Foot sore, hot, tired, and ready to be home, we wanted to make the most of the last day of our honeymoon and the last day in Rome. We got an extra day to flights being rescheduled. We had too many things on our to do list to make it by foot, and we were…
When in Rome…
Towards the end of our honeymoon last summer, we were getting hot, exhausted, and homesick. I ended up not wrapping up the last few days of the trip in blog partially due to a lack of consistent internet and the fact that my previous uploading method for pictures turned out ineffective. I had been blogging…
Cooking Lessons
Wine tasting in Tuscany is very different from the typical experience in the United States. In the US, wine tasting is much like going to a bar. There’s a winery with a tasting room, or just the tasting room itself, where you can order a flight of preselected wines, or you can choose from a…
Paris in a Day
It IS possible to see most the iconic sites of Paris in just one day – in fact, in less than 12 hours. You won’t sit much, even to eat, but it is possible. I didn’t even wear sneakers, though decent pain meds would be recommended. We were also still struggling with bad jet lag,…