Bourbon Chronicles: Wild Turkey, Michter’s & Old Forester Welcome to another installment of the Bourbon Chronicles where we experience distilleries that are part of the bourbon trail and rate the tour and tasting experience. In December, we were able to get out to three distillery tours and taste their bourbon. The tour and tasting experience… Read More
Bourbon Chronicles: Willet, Woodford Reserve, Jim Beam, Evan Williams, Coper & Kings When you’re hosting your also married friends (who have two young kiddos) + a 40th-birthday is in the mix, for a two day-buck-list-bourbon-trail adventure in Kentucky, you make the most of it! These are the adult diaries of 40+ year olds. At first,… Read More
I recently packed for a weeklong trip to Seattle for a work event attending an industry conference followed by some sightseeing around town. I am an employee of Under Armour and am recommending a few pieces of activewear & footwear that I bought with my employee discount and took along with me. I’ll add product… Read More
Bourbon Trail & Tasting: Willett Distillery Also on the list of distilleries not to miss is Willett. Location: The distillery is located just over an hour south of Louisville near a city called Bardstown. It’s also geographically close to the James Beam distillery, and is all but in the back yard of Heaven Hill’s main… Read More
Bourbon Gin Chronicles: Castle & Key Distillery This is a location not to be missed. Personally, I’m more of a gin fan than bourbon. And while this distillery is technically not (at this time) part of the KY Bourbon trail, it is absolutely worth your time to visit. They’ve recently started releasing a line of… Read More
African Safari Day 6Location: Morning Serengeti drive and flight back to Arusha On our final day, we journeyed back to Arusha by flying back across the vast expanse of the Serengeti which we had crossed in the days before. Normally, I do just fine in planes but on this particular day, I sat in the… Read More
African Safari – Day 4 & 5Location: The SerengetiLodge: Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge Monday in the Serengeti is unlike any Monday I have spent anywhere else in the world. It’s calm and there’s no real sense of time. It reminded me that there’s always more to life than just our own geographic bubble. And yet,… Read More
African Safari – Day 3Location: Ngorongoro National Park CraterLodge: Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge Sunday was our crater drive down into the Ngorongoro crater. This park is actually a conservation area where lions, elephants, zebras and flamingos all cohabiting together. Until, of course, it becomes lunch time. At 19km wide and a surface of 264 sq… Read More
African Safari – Day 2Location: Ngorongoro National Park CraterLodging: Ngorongoro Serena Lodge Saturday morning began with a game drive on our way to the crater. Still en route, we stopped to visit Maasai village where our group had the opportunity to interact with members of this nomadic tribe. We were invited into their home. I… Read More
Official Safari day 1 – Tarangire Safari LodgeLocation: Safari in SerengetiDay: Friday, September 2016 The night before we were informed our bags for the safari could only be 15 kilos EACH as we would be taking a one hour flight back into Arusha on a small plane. There was some whining but we managed. Since… Read More
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