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,…
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…
For our anniversary we decided to have a celebration in Tuscany with thirty close friends and family. In discussing this event, we decided that we needed to do something to ensure our guests would be comfortable with a large group of people they did not know since the group invited came from all over the country. In discussions we came up with a three-part strategy. First we researched the towns and villages…
Portillo is a state of mind. Over 12,000 feet up in the Andes Mountains it’s about as close to heaven as you can get without oxygen.Well above the tree line so the mountains you traverse are naked and rocky, the trip leads you to wonder if the promise of Portillo can possibly be all it is thought to be. The twenty-nine switchback turns without guard rails, permit you to look down into…