By Emma Krasov. Photography by Yuri Krasov We all love to travel, but hate to pack! What an ordeal trying to meet airlines’ ever-increasing demands for smaller carry-on sizes while juggling suitable outfits for all occasions—adding a clutch function to …
Must Try Destination Restaurants in San Francisco and Beyond
By Emma Krasov. Photography by Yuri Krasov Traveling to the San Francisco Bay Area is inevitably tied to gustatory indulgence. There’s a good reason our city is considered the culinary capital of the United States by the many leisure and …
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Roaming Legend Wines Drawn from Murrieta’s Well
By Emma Krasov. Photography by Yuri Krasov Murrieta’s Well winery in Livermore Valley, Northern California, is named after Joaquin Murrieta, a mythical outlaw of the Gold Rush era whose posthumous glory and widely fictionalized adventures inspired a 1854 novel The …
Hot Oklahoma!
By Saul Schwartz My wife Fern and I traveled to Oklahoma for work in prior years. However, we had never toured Oklahoma in any depth. In our first trip together to Oklahoma, we enjoyed the three days in Oklahoma …
SMART to Windsor, or the Hampton Inn’s Unique Lodging Package
By Emma Krasov. Photography by Yuri Krasov Reading in the news that credit cards and airlines are getting stingier with travel perks for their loyal users makes me sad… and yet, our local Northern California hospitality continues to extend welcoming …
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Amazing Alberta – From Calgary to Banff National Park
By Saul Schwartz My wife Fern and I spent five days in Alberta in June. This was our first time in this Canadian province! Two Days in Calgary – We used our time in Calgary as a gateway to …
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California Summer Highlights: San Ramon Jazz Series
By Emma Krasov. Photography by Yuri Krasov Alas, it’s almost over, but this summer in Northern California has been a blast! First of all, we had just a few insignificant heat waves, unlike those poor vacationers in Europe scorched by …
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Mendocino: Brewery Gulch Inn & Spa
By Emma Krasov. Photography by Yuri Krasov A road to Mendocino, California, is sometimes windy, and sometimes gorgeous, but most of the time it’s both. On your way up north from San Francisco, you’ll pass busy highway junctions, quaint coastal …
Birthday in the Bahamas (Nassau)
By Saul Schwartz In March, we took a three-hour non-stop flight from Washington National to Nassau. This was the first time and my wife Fern, and I had been on New Providence Island, in the Bahamas. Our first trip …
Unique Sea Island Heritage Festival of South Carolina
By Bonnie and Bill Neely Gullah-Geechee heritage is unique in South Carolina and is a fascinating way to learn about the people who grew world-famous Sea Island Cotton on plantations in the lower part of the state and shipped it …
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