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Where to Eat in California’s Monterey Peninsula

January 18, 2023 Leave a Comment

The California Monterey Peninsula is on the northern part of California’s Central Coast. about 2 hours south of San Francisco and about 6 hours north of Los Angeles. It consists of Carmel (Carmel-By-The-Sea and Carmel Valley), Monterey, Pacific Grove, and Pebble Beach. The area is well known for its beautiful rugged shores, steep slopes, and […]

Filed Under: Carmel, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Restaurants Tagged With: Abalone, ActiveTravelExperiences, C Restaurant, Chez Noir, Flaherty’s Seafood, Hogs Breath Inn, La Balena, Lucia, Monterey Bay Aqurium, Passionfish, Rio Grill, Stillwater Bar and Grill, the Pocket, the Sardine Factory, Vivoli’s Chowder House, Wild Fish in Pacific Grove

Our Favorite Monterey Bay Area Wineries

January 17, 2023 Leave a Comment

The Monterey Bay California area is a few hours drive south of San Francisco. When we take a wine-tasting trip to the area, we focus primarily on the Monterey Peninsula (Carmel-By-The-Sea or Carmel, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel Valley, and Pebble Beach) as well as the Santa Lucia Highlands (SLH) area. While Spanish missionaries planted some […]

Filed Under: Carmel, Monterey, Monterey Peninsula, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: ActiveWineExperiences, Albatross Ridge, Bernardus Winery and Vineyard, Blair Wines, Boekenoogan Wines, Hahn Estate, Holman Ranch, Joullian Wineyards, Joyce Wine Company, Morgan Winery, Novitiate Winery, Odette Vineyard, Odonata Wines, pessagno Winery, Scheid Vineyards, Talbott Vineyards, Testarossa, Wrath Wines

Exploring Paso Robles California Wine Country

January 18, 2023 Leave a Comment

Paso Robles is located in California’s Central Coast Wine Region in San Luis Obispo county. It is halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles on Route 101. The area has wineries, breweries, distilleries, and eateries set in its quaint historic town. But we go there mostly to focus on the wine. The AVA is mostly […]

Filed Under: Dining, Paso Robles, Restaurants, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: ActiveTravelExperiences, ActiveWineExperiences, BL Brasserie, Booker Vineyards, Broken Earth Winery, Daou Vineyards, Firestone Walker Brewing Company, Giornata Winery, Halter Ranch Vineyard, Il Cortile Ristorante, Jeffry's Wien Country BBQ, Justin Winery, La Cosecha, MacPhee’s Canteen, Robert Hall Winery, Sans Liege Winery, Sculpterra Winery, Tablas Creek Vineyard

Wines of the Santa Cruz Mountains

November 8, 2022 Leave a Comment

The Santa Cruz Mountains are home to over 70 wineries and 200 growers. The area produces primarily Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Chardonnay, with lesser amounts of varieties such as Merlot and Zinfandel. The wines produce vary by microclimate but generally showcase concentrated fruit with an earthy mineral quality. Tasting Santa Cruz Mountains wines can […]

Filed Under: California, Featured-City, North America, Santa Cruz, United States, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: ActiveWineExperiences

Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs at the DeYoung Museum

September 18, 2022 Leave a Comment

An exhibit of Ramses the Great is spending 4 years touring around the world. It currently is in San Francisco at the DeYoung Museum before it moves on to its next stop. Who Was Ramses II and Why Was He So Great? Was Ramses II really one of Egypt’s more powerful pharaohs or was he […]

Filed Under: Art, Destinations, Museums, San Francisco Tagged With: ActiveTravelExperiences, Battle of Kasesh, DeYoung Museum, Egypt pharaoh, Ramses II, Ramses the Great

Diego Rivera’s America

August 27, 2022 Leave a Comment

Diego Rivera is a famed early 20th-century muralist. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is currently exhibiting over 150 of his paintings, frescoes, and drawings that highlight his work from the 1920s to the 1940s when he was conceiving a new vision for North America. The Mexican Revolution Diego Rivera began his artistic career […]

Filed Under: Art, Museums, San Francisco Tagged With: Degas Rivera, museums, Pan-American Unity, San Francisco Museum of Contempory Art, SFMOMA, The Flower Carrier

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