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Road Trip Final Days 13 and 14 – Truckee California

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The finale of our road trip lead us to Truckee for a couple of nights of leisure before heading home.  Truckee California is 20 minutes from Lake Tahoe and studded with pines that offer an essence of crisp forest fragrance.  The Truckee River runs through the town and the crisp clear waters are often rafted […]

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Road Trip Days 10-12 (Wyoming to Idaho) + Grilled Artichoke Recipe

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After three days in South Dakota (Black Hills) it was time to start venturing back west and our first stop was a night in Cody, Wyoming. As luck would have it — it was rodeo night, which actually is every night during July and August in Cody, but first dinner at Proud Cut Saloon. Rocky […]

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Road Trip South Dakota (Black Hills) Days 7-9 + Campfire Grilling Recipe

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We arrived in South Dakota at Crooked Creek RV Park to stay for three nights to explore Crazy Horse, Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills. Our site was creek side – lush and green and as picturesque as imagined. We settled in and began to set up for dinner, mainly preparing the outdoor grill to […]

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Road Trip – Fort Collins Day 4-6 + Cocktail Recipe

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After winding our way through the Rocky Mountains and cruising by downtown Denver, we headed east towards Fort Collins. After 8 hours of driving, we arrived at the barn where Lucky would find his new home in Gill Colorado. Rustic and beautifully dotted with rows of fresh corn and milking cows — I think he […]

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Road Trip from Arizona through Southern Utah – Day 2 and 3

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After reaching our horse motel in pitch dark — it was quite challenging to figure out where the stalls and RV hookups were located.  The rookie RV experience began our first night when we turned on all the power including both air conditioning units and blew the fuse.  Needless to say, it was a very […]

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Road Trip Day 1 + Quick Turkey Black Bean Chili Recipe

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Happy Trails from the road.  I’m traveling to Fort Collins to deliver a horse with my boyfriend to his daughter (whom I’m meeting for the first time), and then off to national parks and other great adventures.  The summer heat is still in deep existence during the month of August, so we decided to head […]

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Grilled Corn with Diavola Butter – Recipe!

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While we were at Lake Rosseau in Canada we had a few family-style dinners with our friends.  One evening we all went a bit overboard and created a fourteen-course meal for eighteen people.  The courses weren’t full sized portions, but more appetizer-sized, so we could all enjoy what the entire family made.  My favorite dish […]

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Travels to Sicily – Palermo & Monreale (Part 3 of 3)

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Before heading into Palmero we ventured the long way, about an hour’s drive from Agrigento to Vallelunga to visit Ragaleali Wine Estate and Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School.  Anna Tasca Lanza opened a cooking school decades ago on the families 19th century wine estate called Case’ Vecchie to teach foreigners farm-to-table cuisine.  Anna had worked […]

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Travels to Sicily – Noto, Siracusa, Ragusa & Agrigento (Part 2 of 3)

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Noto was our next stay, about a 45-minute drive from Taormina in southeast Sicily.  Our lodging for a couple of nights was at Country House Villadorata, about a 10 minute drive from downtown Noto in an relatively newish estate settled among olive and almond trees.  The rooms were spacious, clustered together in groups of three […]

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Travels to Sicily – Taormina, Mount Etna and Catania (Part 1 of 3)

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Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea is just off the toe of Italy.  Its diverse culture, architecture and cuisine are what makes Sicily such a special place.  There are two airports into Sicily, one being Catania, where six of us began our east coast tour and shuttled to Taormina for the first few […]

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