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I had been to Napa Valley before, but in early September I “really” went to Napa. Wow. What an amazing place. I had no idea. My earlier trips were related to business or visits with friends. This time we went to “taste” wine and that we did. From morning to night. What I […]
This scene makes me think of the title of Whoopi Goldberg’s book, “Is it just me or is it nuts, out there?” Not sure she was referring to folks wearing day glo wigs and aiming high powered squirt guns at each other, but it could. It’s Festival time in...
If you are headed to San Francisco his summer, don’t miss the stunning Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit at the very cool de Young Art Museum in the middle of the Presideo in this often foggy city. More than 140 ensembles spanning almost 40 years of the “enfante terrible of French fashion” are...
I’ve never really spent much time in the area of Manhattan called the West Village. In fact the area between mid-town and Soho has always been a bit of a mystery. Streets are a bewildering labyrinth of winding lanes and confusing intersections. It is truly an area one can get “lost” in....
I emailed a photo of our sailing trip in the Hudson River off Manhattan to a good friend. She wrote back, “Now that’s a first.” Hmmmm. Yep. It was for me. But it is something I’ve always dreamed of. I love sailing and I love New York. Wouldn’t it be fun to combine the two? […]
While many cities in the world are bigger, older, grander and more populated than New York City, none really showcase art quite the way that the Big Apple does. I’m never disappointed when I travel there. I always see an exhibit, a show, some street art or something to ponder, enjoy and...
Sitting down to write about my recent visit to the 9/11 Memorial I am really at a loss for what to say. So much has been written about this ten-years-in-the- making Memorial on the site of the World Trade Center. Some people love it. Others think it is mundane. Others talk about all the...
When I dropped my dog, Izzy, off at my daughter’s for care while we were in NYC, I asked my four year old grand daughter (yes, the one I wrote about in Traveling with a two-year-old), “Would you take good care of Izzy while Nana and Papa are in NYC?” Instead of answering, she turned […]
I went to trendy South Beach recently because I wanted to see what happened in 20 years Yes, I went there twenty years ago with my husband and my kids (ages 11 and 14 at the time) on a spring break trip, making a couple day stop on our way to Key West. I […]
One of the major things I wanted to do in South Beach on recent trip was to see the Frank Gehry designed New World Symphony Hall. I had been reading about it since it opened over a year ago and was quite intrigued. The funny thing is that we had trouble finding it. The […]