Stories
Travel, food and wine, life, health, and the occasional sermon on perspective. Here is the latest – the rest, with other categories, is below.
The Latest
Wino Journal
Stories, logs, and blogs on moving on from a life of work and routine.
Privileged Enough To Have Critera – On Where We Want To Live
I guess it comes down to this: I’m privileged enough to it have criteria. But, meeting all the criteria does not make life perfect. The right place, be it a dwelling or a physical location, is often a feel more than a place. There has to be a spark. There needs to be an emotion tied to it.
What makes a house a home
Questions on what it means to actually live somewhere.
Adventure
Stories, logs, and blogs on our pilgrim journeys as we grab our backpacks (and a wine key) and walk through Spain, Italy, France, Scotland, and the great wine regions of the world – hopefully including New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and Argentina, to name a few.
Photo Journal – Camino Portuguese
A look back at 2 months living and walking 800km on the Camino de Santiago from France through Spain.
Photo Journal – Via Francigena
A look back at 2 months living and walking 800km on the Camino de Santiago from France through Spain.
Urban Adventure Dublin
We had never been to Dublin and have been told by many of our friends that it was a must-visit. That, and Irish history has always been a bit of a blind spot for me that needed correcting.
Finally A Real Airbnb Rating System
For some reason, we travelers seem to develop actual relationships with our lodging and hosts when choosing Airbnb, not allowing for honesty or even well adjusted direct communication. That, my friends, is an unhealthy relationship.
How to throw a sensory wine tasting
The whole idea behind a sensory wine tasting is to explore sights, aromas, and flavors of wine beyond just the simple look, smell and sip of casual wine drinking. In sensory tastings, the goal is to actually compare and contrast what you experience in the wine with...
The Basics Of Smelling Wine
Do you have cats? Have you ever smelled raw clay kitty litter? How about putting your face right down into a somewhat used litter box filled with clay kitty litter? Do it. Then take a big, deep whiff and register what you smell. Chances are, you smell clay, dust, cat...
More Stories
Pilgrim Journal – Not Every Day Is Fabulous
Everything is wonderful, inspiring, and fabulous…until you wake up on the wrong side of the world and it suddenly isn’t.
Pilgrim Journal – Today I Found My Soul
Who knew it was in Switzerland?
Pilgrim Journal – Hotel Rooms and other stuff
We’re in Switzerland on the Via Francigena and have a few thoughts.
Pilgrim Journal – Chamonix
Well, we are on our way. The road to Rome has officially - unofficially started in Chamonix, France. Why Chamonix? Well, we are starting our official Via Francigena pilgrim walk in Lausanne, Switzerland, and we didn’t want to take the trip from Spain to Lausanne all...
Urban Adventure Dublin
We had never been to Dublin and have been told by many of our friends that it was a must-visit. That, and Irish history has always been a bit of a blind spot for me that needed correcting.
Random thoughts and mostly useless observations on the Camino de Santiago
Here are only a few of my observations and random thoughts – with some explanation if I feel like it – on our experience walking the Camino de Santiago.
Photo Journal – Camino de Santiago
A look back at 2 months living and walking 800km on the Camino de Santiago from France through Spain.
CDS Day 1 – Failure, Food, and A Rainy Day Playlist
Please note, typed with my thumbs so be kind…bad grammar and misspellings are a certainty! It was a day of failure. See, I look at failure differently. Failure for me on this pilgrimage started with taking a bus on the very first leg from SJPDP to Roncesvalles due to...
Notes On The Feeling Of Freedom
When I was 18, I left the house to go to college. I took with me all I owned, a duffel bag full of clothes, a guitar, and my bed to set up in my first apartment. For the next few years I lived in the moment. Now I’m over 50, done working, and have spent the last year roaming the world. I’ve gone from having nothing to having everything, and then intentionally back to nothing again.
Finally A Real Airbnb Rating System
For some reason, we travelers seem to develop actual relationships with our lodging and hosts when choosing Airbnb, not allowing for honesty or even well adjusted direct communication. That, my friends, is an unhealthy relationship.