Monthly Archives: July 2007

The Road Trip – Day 3

Continued from here. Wednesday morning we put San Simeon and Cambria in to our rear view mirrors and headed for Paso Robles. There are other wine regions in California, and the central coast does produce some decent wine. We took … Continue reading

Food & Wine, Travel

Informed Satuday

Researchers Dispute Ice Cream and Intelligence Link Scientists at Baylor University in Waco, Texas disputed claims first reported in EGI that eating ice cream increases intelligence.  The research conducted by Doctors Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of the University of … Continue reading

EGI

The Road Trip – Day 2

Continued from here. Our first planned stop was Hearst Castle. I took tour 1 many years ago and Janet had taken both tours 1 and 2, so we got reservations for tour 3. The visitor’s area is a lot bigger … Continue reading

Food & Wine, Travel

The Friday Thingy

“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake … Continue reading

Social, Religion

The Road Trip – Day 1

Since Janet and I couldn’t go to Hawaii with the parents, we decided to do an alternate vacation based upon when the pet sitter would be available. We first looked at going to Yellowstone but unless you get reservations a … Continue reading

Food & Wine, Travel