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The Cocktail Hour: Caribbean Rum Sense Of Savor Off

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We lately cruised to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (story on that coming later) thence does that count at our fifth Caribbean Area island? Technically, no, I gauge exactly unopen enough. I got a duet of bottles of rum inwards the duty shop, who promptly messed upwards my order, exactly it gave me an excuse to gain about other Cocktail Hour sense of savor off alongside Tim. Watch the Video! In this corner, our command rum, is Captain Morgan Spiced Rum.  Good rum, fairly inexpensive in addition to common, it volition last the criterion for sense of savor against the other three. It's slightly vanilla spice notes aid polish the harshness of the mass-produced beverage. Next it Royal Jamaican rum. Aged x years in addition to using entirely Jamaican produced molasses from Jamaican grown saccharide cane, Tim in addition to I both are a flake surprised at how harsh this pricey bottle is. Moving on, it's Captain Morgan's Private Stock, a clear cutting to a higher h...
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Rewards Come Upwards To Those Who Wait: Cashing Inwards Our Points For A Postal Service Retirement Opor-Garai Blowout

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We're non actually hard-core points warriors (those who alive to exploit every wages to accumulate rewards points for traveling) but we're non ones to shy away from opportunities to collect points. Over the years hither at , we've been known to cash inwards points for a gratis flying or a nighttime inwards a hotel hither together with at that topographic point but guide keep non actually made a peachy endeavor to accumulate a lot of points to cash inwards for a large vacation. Until now... The concluding duo of years worth of move guide keep involved a to a greater extent than concerted endeavor on our purpose to accumulate points for ane of our biggest vacations yet...a multi-week blowout roofing 2 southern states amongst a cruise to the Bahama Islands thrown into the middle but for the heck of it. I retired from my project inwards March after xxx years of service (that's a motion painting from my retirement luncheon) together with nosotros had longed to...
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Lake Tahoe In Addition To The Motherlode, California & Nevada

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  On our 3rd day, nosotros ended upwards wasting a lot of fourth dimension because some locals told us the best swimming lake inwards the expanse was Bear River Lake high upwards inwards the mountains higher upwards Jackson.  After a two-hour drive, nosotros discovery out that at that spot is no wheelchair access.  At all. Back downwards nosotros went.  Nice drive, but disappointed inwards non beingness able to do anything. Watch the Video! Yesterday was wine tasting solar daytime (part 2) where nosotros ended upwards spending simply almost all solar daytime at Story Winery.  Not complaining at all because it’s ane of my favorite places but nosotros did missy ane winery I had wanted to visit, Vino Nocetto. Vino Nocetto is known for their sangiovese.  They brand several varieties together with vintages of the grape Italians brand into Chianti.  It’s a prissy lilliputian winery together with I honey the lilliputian hot domestic d...
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The Cocktail Hr - Latin Passion

Watch the Video! This calendar week on the patio, we're enjoying or together with then Latin Passion!  Stop it...it's merely the cite of the drink.  This is variety of similar a to a greater extent than sour version of a tequila sunrise.  It is rattling proficient together with pretty too. Here's the recipe. INGREDIENTS - Two Drinks 2 oz Tequila 2 oz Brandy 1/2 oz Amaretto splash of passionfruit syrup 2-3 oz. sweetness together with sour spash of grenadine 1/2 lime Squeeze lime into cocktail shaker that is 1/3 sum of ice.  Put inwards merely the smallest dash of passionfruit syrup, likewise much volition construct your quaff likewise sweet. Pour inwards tequila, brandy, amaretto, together with cause sum to top amongst sweetness together with sour.  Shake together with strain into 2 sometime fashioned spectacles most 2/3 sum of ice.  Splash a piffling grenadine over the top together with allow it sink naturally...do...
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Amador County Vino Country, California

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In Part 1 of this trip, nosotros remove maintain a really enjoyable twenty-four hr menses of baseball game together with candy inwards Sacramento earlier heading upwards to the Motherlode solid soil for a mediocre hotel, a keen picayune steakhouse, a prissy kitchen shop, together with a slightly depressing Gold Rush era downtown. Watch the Video! Today, we’re heading for vino country.   My alternative for the best vino solid soil sense has ever been Amador Country.   It’s i of the oldest grape growing areas of the province together with is domicile to California’s oldest continuous operating winery. Between our hotel inwards Sutter Creek together with the highway lies the tiny town of Amador City, population 213…the smallest incorporated metropolis inwards California.  It does remove maintain a downtown together with the v cars that brand upwards the rush hr are parked at Andrae’s Bakery .  Inside, fresh coffee, cooked to monastic say breakfasts,...
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Amazing Places - Rachel Carson National Wild Fauna Refuge, Maine

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One of the places nosotros referenced inwards our Maine report is the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge .  If you're e'er inwards the southern expanse of Maine...downeast...be certain to banking concern gibe it out.  Below is an article I wrote for a publication a few years ago. On a crisp autumn solar daytime inwards Southern Maine, nosotros cycle upwardly to the bulletin board of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge. Tacked to it is a ruled notepad in addition to a pencil on a string. Here, guests are invited to write downward what wild animals they’ve seen on their visit. It makes for some fascinating reading in addition to whets the appetite for what’s to come... “Two squirrels, four blueish jays, i deer...” “a hawk, iii chipmunks, four sparrows...” “3 squirrels in addition to ii dead mosquitos...” We had been inwards Maine for the by week, inwards the midst of the elevation autumn color. So far, the crowds bring been really sparse...we h...
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Sacramento Too The Golden Country, California

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  When traveling, the interrogation is “fly or drive?”  Today, nosotros are traveling to Sacramento from the Pasadena, California area…a distance of 407 miles.  Flying fourth dimension would live an hour.  Arriving at the airport, an hr before takeoff.  Being with a wheelchair, add together some other hr to that to brand certain airline as well as drome staff tin teach yous on the bird as well as seated together.  Another 40 minutes to an hr to drive to the airport, hence a one-half hr to collect your baggage as well as some other to teach to the hotel…if it is nearby.  You mightiness also demand to rent a machine if populace transit options are non suitable (but inward Sacramento, they are pretty good). Watch the Video of This Trip! So, we’re talking close an investment of 5 hours…at least…and but about $350 for 3 people flying.  The drive is half dozen hours…not counting food, fuel, as well as bath stops…plus yous tin easil...
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