by Greg Masinton | Apr 30, 2015 | Travel
The greatest joy of traveling to foreign lands is affording yourself the opportunity to simply view and engage in different cultures, eat different foods, listen to different languages, stand out in a crowd, or do your best to fit in. That said, as glorious the...
by Greg Masinton | Apr 27, 2015 | Photography, Travel
Regarding travel photography, seriously, what is the deal with the picture taking? As we stood on the platform to catch our train to Rome some time ago, a platform that was amazingly small in a train station that was puny in a hill town that...
by Greg Masinton | Apr 26, 2015 | Food and Wine, Travel, Wine
Since the first grape vines were planted in 1965, the Willamette Valley has become one of the most influential wine-producing regions in America, not just in Oregon or the Pacific Northwest. It has developed the power of Pinot Noir production and, with its New World...
by Greg Masinton | Apr 23, 2015 | Life
I have many gay friends. I always have. Gay friends are cool…because they are your friends, right? I guess I’m lucky. I was raised, by and large, to be non-judgmental. My parents didn’t really bring up the whole race, creed, sex thing. I have never...
by Greg Masinton | Apr 21, 2015 | Travel
6:00am (10:00pm DT or Denver Time) We wake up in the Aklesia B&B in the Colosseum district of Rome to the sound of the iPhone alarm going off on the side of the bed. Snooze? Nah. Gotta get up, shower and hit the Metro station. I reach in to my backpack to find...
