Stories
Travel, food and wine, life, health, and the occasional sermon on perspective. Here is the latest – read the rest here.
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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 Italy, Scotland, Spain, and the great wine regions of the world – 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...