Right where Columbus Ave makes its sweeping curve, before the famous beat poet hangout City Lights Bookstore, is the nexus of the universe. A unique place where life converges in a way unaltered by preconceptions or prejudices. It is where cultures and…
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- Go wherever it takes, but always come back with a good story
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- Travel Blogger, PR & Marketing Professional
- Where I Have Been
- Quebec, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, France (Paris), Switzerland (Interlaken), Italy (Venice, Verona, Rimini, Rome, Florence, Pompei, Sorrento, Naples, Capri, Milan, Montalcino, Tuscany, Cinque Terre), UK (London), Greece (Delphi, Athens, Mykonos, Rhodes), Turkey - across the U.S., San Francisco to South Dakota, Colorado to Chicago
- Where I Want To Go Next
- The goal is to hit Munich, Prague and Vienna in 2011 and Scotland/Ireland in 2012; with some good ole fashioned U.S. road-tripping thrown in
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To cheer and good times: My night in a Munich beer hall
In any other country, in any other setting, maybe I would have flinched when my wife batted her eyes at a table full of men. But in a Munich beer hall, it’s as commonplace as dunkel and weiss.
Munchen’s world famous Hofbrauhaus is packed to the rafters nightly, with everyone from confused tourists to roiling stag parties. If you’re lucky, you’ll catch a group paying their bill and linger like gulls just long enough to snatch their seats. If you’re luckier, a few chairs…
Continue Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:27pm
Black & White Travel Photos
I'm not a professional photographer, I do not have a black and white camera and yes, I may have enhanced some of these with Photoshop. But sometimes color just doesn't capture the drama of scene; and sometimes draining out the RGBs and CMYKs just looks cooler. For cities like London and San Fran, where a gray day is as common as a gawking tourist, it's almost natural to view the cityscape through fog-colored lenses.
To see some of my favorites, check out…
ContinuePosted on February 23, 2012 at 1:56pm
Finding Paradise in Napa Valley
The Napa Valley you dream of is not in California, at least for those of us who don't own a boutique vineyard. The Napa you dream of exists halfway across the world, slightly north of Rome, nestled quietly on an Etruscan hillside where grape vines stretch as big as Yountville, strung across undulating greenery from one ancient castle to the next. Don't go to California expecting the Napa of your dreams; because that's Tuscany.
Napa is something else altogether. The bits and…
ContinuePosted on February 16, 2012 at 8:04pm
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