A Boston Sommelier’s Insights Karen and I were recently in Boston for a long weekend, visiting the Presidential Libraries there and in Hyde Park, New York. Two very different leaders, responding to two very different times in the history of our nation. We became interested in visiting all of the libraries of the fourteen presidents who have them, after a visit to the Bush library here in Dallas. We discovered the National…
Karen and Byron, with consultation from our California friends Pam and Warner, developed the itinerary for a day in Napa. The day would consist of driving out from San Francisco, where Byron lives and we are visiting, to Bistro Don Giovanni, located at 4110 Howard Lane in Napa, where we met Pam and Warner who were in Napa for a conference. Earlier in the week they had been to the Patel Winery,…
We decided to visit our son, who moved to San Francisco for his work. It had been a long time since we visited with him there, so Karen decided she wanted to do something special for him. She found a list of Michelin Star restaurants and asked him to select one. He chose Sorrel. Investigating what he was getting us into, we discovered that we were going to be presented with a…
A number of years ago we did a private tour of Sicily which has never been forgotten. Giuseppe was both our driver and guide. The thing we always harken back to was while we met Giuseppe in Palermo to begin our adventure, we asked if we could stop in Corleone along the way. The terse response was ‘My father is not respected in Corleone.’ Obviously, we never toured the hillsides where Michael…
Morocco has been on our short list for years. A friend from work had lived there for two years during the deployment one of the first satellite telephone systems years ago. He had described it as one of the most fascinating places he’d ever lived. He was originally from Poland and had lived all over the world, so I always saw his interest in the county as intriguing. On a recent trip…