Stories
Travel, food and wine, life, health, and the occasional sermon on perspective. Here is the latest – the rest, with other categories, is below.
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Wino Journal
Stories, logs, and blogs on moving on from a life of work and routine.
The Retirement Road Less Traveled
We were talking to a friend the other day. She wants to retire, quit work and do other things. We talk at length of the ins and outs of life changes, what we want, what she wants, what it took for us, decisions, challenges, ups and downs, hopes and dreams. Options. We...
I Need A Personal User Agreement
Sadly, we seem to have become a society that can no longer communicate. We are stressed, angry, scared, and we are definitely polarized - about stupid stuff, too. It seems no one can have a conversation lasting longer than 3 minutes (or 4 response posts on any of the...
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.
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...
Photo Journal – Mexico
A photographic journey and small sample of images from our pandemic life in Mexico
Another Useless Attempt At Travel Blogging – Zagreb Croatia
Zagreb, Croatia. Coffee (and some wine nearby), smoking, a cruffin (daily), and a museum dedicated to relationship failure. A good place to start your journey through Croatia.
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Leaving 55 in 2020
2020 will probably be one of the, if not the, most significant years of my life. This was the year I had been waiting for; the year I was planning to retire. What a year it’s been. 2020 kicked off with me suffering from and recovering from a pretty severe...
The Retirement Road Less Traveled
We were talking to a friend the other day. She wants to retire, quit work and do other things. We talk at length of the ins and outs of life changes, what we want, what she wants, what it took for us, decisions, challenges, ups and downs, hopes and dreams. Options. We...
I Need A Personal User Agreement
Sadly, we seem to have become a society that can no longer communicate. We are stressed, angry, scared, and we are definitely polarized - about stupid stuff, too. It seems no one can have a conversation lasting longer than 3 minutes (or 4 response posts on any of the...
Two Mothers Two Lessons
As long back as I can remember, my mother taught me to save. What allowance there was, was always separated out into tithing, saving and spending. Even the tooth fairy was not spared. That dollar under the pillow in return for extracted teeth got divided out, too....
The Last Day
The day arrived like any other day. Since we sold our home and car and moved downtown, we now woke at 6:30 with plenty of time to roll out of bed, brush my teeth, and still be online by 7am. But that day was different. That day was my last day. Even though I knew...
Walking Notes – Losing track of everything I think is true
A stream of consciousness project of turning on the speech-to-text feature on my phone and having it record whatever I say as I take my morning walk – with very little editing and even less proper punctuation.
Perspective on coronavirus
Warning: Totally irreverent #coronapocalypse perspective in 3, 2, 1... I think it’s noteworthy that there is a swelling of questioning, lecturing, and anger being directed generally at young people in America by the Boomer generation (and others, to be fair)...
Food And Wine Photography
Click here to see some of our latest food and wine photography from Carboy Winery, our urban winery client with locations in Littleton, Breckenridge, and soon Downtown Denver. Learn more about this award-winning winery at CarboyWinery.com
Pay by the pound – The only way to truly fix air travel
Let’s be blunt. Airlines should charge by the pound. Yeah, I said it. Pay by the pound is the only way to truly fix the airline industry. UPS does it. FedEx does it. DHL does it. They make money. Why not the airline industry? When it comes down to it, airline...
Denver Food Photography
Check out the images from our latest food photography shoot for Front Forty Foods, a revolutionary new concept coming soon to Denver. Then, click here to see some proper food pornography and the rest of our food and wine photography portfolio.