ALLEZ À GAUCHE NE VONT PAS À DROITE
May 2017 Kaleidoscope of France Gate1 Tour This is a tale of jet lag, and I hope I have my French correct. The title is supposed to say “Go to the left, do not go the right” Our Tour of France adventure began Saturday, May 20th as we departed home at noon for the […]
CALIFORNIA DREAMING …
I had the opportunity to attend a conference in San Francisco, and Marcy and I decided to add a couple days to the trip and “pop over” to Fresno so we could visit Yosemite, King’s Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. Google Maps declared that it was about a 3 1/2 hour drive from the […]
THE AMALFI COAST
It has been several months now since our excursion to Amalfi from Sorrento, but we remain committed to finishing video highlights of our trip. Some of our productions came fairly easy, but we labored over this one for well over a month. We were long in production for a number of reasons. I […]
SORRENTO
It is hard to believe that it has been two months since I last posted in this blog space. Marcy and I were busy with the holidays and we spent most of our free time out taking pictures in the Smoky Mountains. We still have many video projects in the works from last travel […]
UNDER THE TUSCAN RAIN
(Don’t miss the accompanying YouTube video posted at the end of the blog entry.) The golden brown clay soil of the Central Tuscan countryside was rain-soaked on the day we ventured to Siena. On the way, Our Gate1 tour director, Myriam, introduced us to the story of the colorful and famous Palio horse race, which, […]
DAY TRIP TO ABINGDON, VIRGINIA
We enjoyed yet another Saturday fall outing, this time to the Barter Theatre, 140 miles away in Abingdon, Virginia. It is the last weekend in October and we are still seeing bright and dry conditions with temperatures in the 80s. I think we’ve had just one rainy day since August and the leaf colors are […]
