Capital shopping and eating in Lahaina
Most of our Maui adventure was spent on the water or on the beach. But we had to explore the town closest to our resort. Lahaina was the capital of the […]
Category Archives: Food, wine and other goodies
TIPSY TOURIST: Wine Country on a bus
I generally like to go my own way when I’m traveling: stop where I want, eat where I want. But there’s something to be said about a bus trip to […]
TIPSY TOURIST: Big Cork Vineyards
I love to drive off the beaten path, miles from anywhere, to find a little gem of a winery. Even better to drive off the beaten path and find that […]
‘Michael’ the movie angel was here in Gruene, TX
That was all I needed to hear. The movie “Michael.“—you know, the one about an angel on earth and the tabloid reporters who investigated— filmed a scene just up the […]
Old Town Winchester: shopping and history
Petula Clark once sang a song praised the sights and sounds of Downtown. “Things will be great when you’re downtown.” I’m dating myself but I was a really little kid […]
American road trip: Tell me where to go
Planning a cross-country trip for next summer. Fifty Nifty United States and all that (although, I sigh, Hawaii and Alaska are off the table). So tell me, where should my […]
How far would you go for a pizza?
We heard about a great coal fired pizza in the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia. We don’t travel much in this part of New Jersey so if we were going […]
POSTCARD from Baltimore’s Recreation Pier
For years, the Recreation Pier in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood was remembered mostly as the set of the television show, “Homicide: Life on the Streets.” Once the series ended, the […]
TIPSY TOURIST: Waiheke Island, NZ
Our trip was not the ideal. Heavy clouds loomed overhead. At first they threatened but then they opened up and drenched everything in sight. There was no way of staying […]
Eating my way through the Ferry Building
First off, one visit is not enough. The Ferry Building, which really is a terminal for some of the multitude of ferries that cross San Francisco Bay, is also home […]
