Wine tasting at the Changyu Winery! The Great Wall The Great Wine: Changyu Wine Chateau Wine Tasting at Changyu For anyone contemplating a trip to China, walking The Great Wall is a “Must-Do”, even if you just walk a bit of it, and so it was absolutely essential I find Read more…
The Forbidden City Peking Duck at Duck de Chine… Our palatial Chairman’s Suite at the Beijing Hotel NUO! Meat-on-a-Stick at Wangfujing! In honor of our Third Second Honeymoon (which I had emailed them about when I booked…), the gorgeous and historic Beijing Hotel NUO (originally Raffles) gave us an Read more…
Shanghai at night on the Huangpu River Classic 1930s Jazz at the Jazz Bar at the Peace Hotel Cruise on the Huangpu River The Bullet Train to Beijing! As I mentioned in my previous post, we first went to the historic Peace Hotel on our Shanghai-Lander “Breakfast and Bund” Tour, Read more…
Tongli Water Town Xitang Water Town Tongli Water Town Our Tongli Gondolier! Cormorants – Tongli Water Town Our third day in Shanghai we took an excellent full-day tour to two of the beautiful Water Towns, Tongli and Xitang, near Shanghai, with Miki Tours. I booked this tour through Viator, as Read more…
Hand-Pulling Noodles… MARVELOUS Shanghai Soup Dumplings! Shanghai Tea House Making THE best soup dumplings! THE best Shanghai breakfast WonTons! We did a lot of fun things during our five first days in China in Shanghai, but because this was a “foodie-centric” trip, I am going to devote this Read more…
Baiju tasting…. Tea in Shanghai… On a boat in one of the “Water Towns”… Yummy “meat-on-a-stick”! Learning to make dumplings Steam Train… Bullet Train… Harbin Ice Festival Terracotta Warriors… Pandas! My chef husband and I just came back from an amazing month in China- a 40+ year dream of Read more…
I was deployed by FEMA to Montana following a disaster declaration for spring floods as the Community Relations Field Specialist Lead for Yellowstone County, based in Billings. If you’ve ever wondered what a FEMA Community Relations Field Specialist does, we’re essentially the “eyes and ears” of FEMA in the field, Read more…
We have entered the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre to win the #SCORE $25,000 Unique Business Award- PLEASE VOTE FOR US- and please share it, too! (Apparently you can vote repeatedly- so PLEASE do, as we have to catch up with the folks who have 5000 votes!) https://championship.score.org/contest_entries/264102 The Elkhorn Inn Read more…
If you (and/or your friends) love all things Japanese, as we do, especially trying new foods and treats, you are going to Love having a subscription to Bokksu! I recently received my November Bokksu box of Japanese snacks and teas, and am Totally loving it! Bokksu is unlike any Read more…
We set out on our “Civil War Road Trip” this spring heading from home- the Elkhorn Inn– to Memphis, to begin our American Queen Paddlewheel Cruise down the Mississippi. Our first stop was Gatlinburg, Tennessee, which is about four hours from the Elkhorn Inn. In planning our road trips I Read more…