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Category: (People We've Met)
... Ballarat in near Death Valley in California, named by Australian immigrant George Riggins. Not much there anymore. ...Created on 20 April 2013 -
Category: (Wine Country)
... This poster by Francisco Tamagno is just one of several Belle Epoque posters depicting the art of promotion and the seductive qualities of drink at Silverado Vineyards in California's Napa Valley. ...Created on 16 April 2013 -
Category: (Wine Country)
A thing about wine tasting: you can only do so much of it. You won't find me trailing up and down some viney valley imbibing at one winery after another. After the first stop I feel the urge to do a ...Created on 04 April 2013 -
Category: (Editors and Contributors)
... working for such clients as Memorex, where she had to prove that Ella Fitzgerald's voice recorded on the company's audio cassettes COULD break a wine glass, the Napa Valley Wine Auction. In 1984 she ...Created on 28 March 2013 -
Category: (Essays)
... Not only do the patrons have different personalities, but so do the coffee shops. In our old home town of Mill Valley, California, for instance, there are three cafes on the square, each clearly catering ...Created on 21 March 2013 -
Category: (US/Canada)
I hear it fluttering above: chucka, chucka, chucka. Officially, the California State Bird is the gentle Valley Quail. The exception is in Los Angeles where that honor goes to the helicopter: following ...Created on 08 March 2013 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... workshops ranging from Death Valley in Winter to the Streets of Mumbai. Meal plan $255 (the food is very good). On campus lodging, including the meal plan: Single: $940 Couple (queen-sized bed): ...Created on 18 October 2012 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
... Valley in Winter to the Streets of Mumbai. Meal plan $255 (the food is very good). On campus lodging, including the meal plan: Single: $940 Couple (queen-sized bed): $1280 There are more deluxe accommodations ...Created on 18 October 2012 -
Category: (US/Canada)
Photo: Russ Johnson Romantic nights this summer in Jack London State Park in the Valley of the Moon in Sonoma County, California. The Transcendence Theatre Company, comprised of many Broadway veterans, ...Created on 25 July 2012 -
Category: (Wine Country)
Photo: Russ Johnson Romantic nights this summer in Jack London State Park in the Valley of the Moon in Sonoma County, California. The Transcendence Theatre Company, comprised of many Broadway veterans, ...Created on 25 July 2012 -
Category: (Europe)
... rooms. My first connoisseur experience was when, as a cub reporter in 1972, I was assigned to California's Napa Valley to interview Jack Davies, founder of Schramsberg, who furnished the wine for the ...Created on 13 March 2012 -
Category: (Wine Country)
... a cub reporter in 1972, I was assigned to California's Napa Valley to interview Jack Davies, founder of Schramsberg, who furnished the wine for the "night they invented détente," when Richard Nixon and ...Created on 13 March 2012 -
Category: (Video)
q7xAViYFrkc "Get out of Dodge" is a line from the 50s TV Western Gunsmoke in which Marshal Dillon admonishes ne'er-do-wells to high-tail it out of Dodge City Kansas. The Valley of Fire ...Created on 18 January 2012 -
Category: (US/Canada)
q7xAViYFrkc "Get out of Dodge" is a line from the 50s TV Western Gunsmoke in which Marshal Dillon admonishes ne'er-do-wells to high-tail it out of Dodge City Kansas. The Valley of Fire ...Created on 18 January 2012 -
Category: (Wine Country)
All Photos (c)2011 Russell Johnson Carneros is a wine growing region that straddles the Sonoma AND Napa Valleys and San Francisco Bay. Its coolish climate is primo for Chardonnays, Pinot Noirs, Syrahs, ...Created on 22 November 2011 -
Category: (Video)
... the finest remaining country estates of the early 20th century and is known for its magnificent but peaceful gardens, with some 500 types of roses and 200 kinds of camelias. While the valleys of Sonoma ...Created on 05 May 2011 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... snow surprised California's Sierra Nevada. My wife and I spent Saturday night (our anniversary) at Plump Jack, the restaurant and Inn in Squaw Valley and while that was quite good, no duck filet or Pinot ...Created on 05 October 2009 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Radio)
... Dearth Valley: If less is more, what is nothing?Dearth_Valley_Amargosa Harpin' The Ling: California's Anderson Valley, where people speak in tonguesBoontling_An_American_Folk_Language Banff, ...Created on 16 April 2009 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... Big Asparagus and whiten the teeth of Valley Girls, it would be as desolate as the steppes of Central Asia. Driving through the high desert between Bakersfield and Las Vegas I note two landmarks: a graveyard ...Created on 14 January 2008 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... of mine are less than 100 years old, but in the deep, foggy valleys to the north, some have grown to 35 stories and 2,200 years old. These are the tallest, oldest trees on earth. As I read "The ...Created on 06 July 2007