Personal Technology Coaching
Just leaving the beautiful Bridlewood winery. To us Georgians, the excellence of California central-coast weather is a constant revelation. Bright sunshine all day, but with the low desert humidity, frequent breezes, and the world’s largest air conditioning system – the Pacific Ocean – it stays wonderfully comfortable all day long. The wineries here are among … Read more
Kalyra’s, and California’s, admonition to wine tasters. Impending intoxfication aside, we unfortunately cannot take advantage of their generous deals on shipping wine to Georgia. We’ll have to put some our luggage and check it.
Room 349, Santa Ynez Valley Marriott, Buellton, California.
I’ve got more to tell, and show, about the trip I took to New Orleans last month with some folks from my church. We worked on a house, mudding and sanding drywall, painting the porch, and more. We stayed at Olive Tree Village, formerly a church and now a center for housing volunteer work crews … Read more
How I would love to have the chance to follow these tips from This French Life and spend more time in museums in Paris, or just more time in Paris, or even more time to just think about more time in Paris. VISITING Paris museums and monuments are the things you most want to do … Read more
Eric posts a photo a day of Paris. We’ll have to meet him when we go back!
Mark Bittman writes, in yesterday’s New York Times Travel Section, of his assessment of The Best Steak Frites in Paris. It isn’t, of course, only about the potatoes but about the steaks (or rib roasts or fried boneless pig’s feet) that go with, and justify, the frites. As a fairly avid carnivore myself, this is … Read more
Back from our trip, including 2 nights in Avignon, 2 in Geneva, and the final 6 in a small apartment in St. Germain des Pres. Much more about this to come, with links and pictures. Great food, cool weather (three hailstorms – small and brief enough to be interesting instead of overwhelming), museums and art, ... Read more
Ellen and I are in the Air France arrivals lounge after a remarkably good flight. Business class is all it’s cracked up to be. The French keyboard on this iMac is quite different from the American layout. Odd. I hve to use the shift key to type a period, the a and q keys are … Read more
Downloadble, hi-resolution maps of subway systems around the world at travel site Amadeus.net.