Thoughts of a Middle Aged Man

Felix Restaurant, in Cabo San Lucas, bills the salsa bar as the world’s longest salsa bar. I am not sure its the longest, but with 26 salsas available, it definitely has great variety. Our dinner at Felix’s was only one of the highlights of a mini family vacation in the town at the [...]

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Ok, so I wasn’t bowled over with Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill (but his recipes are still wonderful). For our other pre-theater dinner, we booked reservations at Kellari Taverna, an upscale Greek restaurant on 44th Street. We had heard that their prefix dinner was a great deal, but I was more interested in taking my [...]

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For our trip to New York, I did a lot of investigating of restaurants to complement our daily adventures. I wanted to go to Babbo’s, Mario Batali’s place in the Village, but we couldn’t score a reservation, so I secured a reservation at Mesa Grill, Bobby Flay’s flagship place. Its on 5th [...]

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What could be better, four days of exploration of all things New York city has to offer. Landscapes, history, entertainment, and dining pleasures. We arrived late Thursday night and checked into the Helmsley Hotel on 42nd Street. I quick walk to pick up some .99 cent per slice New York style pizza [...]

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I spent a few days in Oregon visiting a few of my remote employees and took advantage of the trip and my wife flew up on Friday and we enjoyed a lovely weekend in northern Oregon. After picking her up at the airport we drove to the Pearl District and had a wonderful [...]

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We made another trip up north to pick up my wine shipment from Tablas Creek this last weekend. We left Friday evening and stopping for a quick meal in Camarillo, we made it to San Luis Obispo relatively early. We have some generous friends who lent us their condo that they bought in [...]

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As with our Rose Bowl trip, working for the world’s largest ticketing company gave me access to purchase a pair of tickets at face value to the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona. We didn’t find out that would get the tickets until Friday morning. That gave us enough time to cancel a [...]

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Four the last three years we have been making a pilgrimage to San Francisco this time of year. With the help of friends, we volunteer at the Zinfandel Advocates and Producers (ZAP) annual festival and sell wine and wine related knick knacks to over 15,000 zinfandel fans who taste the wine from nearly 400 different [...]

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Last fall, Annette reminded me that she had never seen the Grand Canyon. That put me on a quest and I tried to find some time last fall to sneak off prior to our trip to New Zealand, but our schedule was full. After Christmas, I booked some rooms and planned a weekend. [...]

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We spent two weeks in New Zealand visiting my daughter, visiting some friends and taking the time to explore the South Island. First of all, it was wonderful to see my daughter who has been in New Zealand for 4 months and is planning to stay there for many more. This is [...]

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