June 4th: We leave Oxnard: We are several days and several hours past the date I had set for our departure. “It’s ok” I tell myself “I really don’t have a schedule. We get there when we get there” I started planning this move in
All is well.
Travel is not for those who want to remain in their comfort zone. Travel can be enlightening, enriching, enraging, frustrating and challenging.
Travel can be enlightening, enriching, enraging, frustrating and challenging. So come with us now as we head back to the border at Tijuana.
Our second trip to Ensenada we stayed again at Las Rosas. We asked for our same room, #301 and within minutes of opening our balcony door, “our” sea gull landed there. (We think since we are more acquainted now we should give him a name.
Out of Ensenada, we head east along Route 3, the Ruta del Vino. There are 16 wineries through here. I knew I wanted to go to Santo Tomas and Monte Xanic because we’d experienced some of their fine wines. But we were out to explore,
Just got back from Baja California. We spent 3 nights in Ensenada. It would have been four but we had a devil of a time tracking down Mexican auto insurance. Not that it’s hard to get but because of misinformation from the car rental agency
Just got back from SlowFoodUSA National Leadership Conference. It was held in one of my favorite cities in the US, New Orleans, Louisiana. Or N’ahlins as the natives tend to say. The first night, we were feted with an incredible opening reception at Dickie Brennan’s
We were in Oxnard, CA this last weekend. Oxnard is an agricultural area. A lot of strawberries come from Oxnard. There is also a lot of beach front homes and that’s where we were. It’swarm there and after this winter in New Mexico , I’m so happy to
I didn’t imagine that there’s a new movement underway in southern cooking. It’s called Southern Foodways. According to their website, “We stage events, produce documentary films, publish compendiums of great writing, and perhaps most important – document and map our region’s culinary standard bearers through
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