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February 2012 Edition of French Frolicking

Winter is one of my favorite times in Paris, the food the lighter tourist crowds, the color of the sky, there are a million shades of grey that I have only seen in the Paris sky in winter.  I was lucky...

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Saturday Six #94

I spent half the week in Los Angeles for the Grammy’s rehearsals and the weather in Los Angeles was absolutely gorgeous! A perfect 75 degrees, which is about twenty degrees warmer than it is in San...

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French Friday – Paris My Sweet

I cannot think of a sweeter return of French Friday than to share with you Parisian blogging pal Amy Thomas’s new book Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate).  I met Amy in...

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Ode to the Travelers' Mother

I am not one of those round-the-world travelers taking months or years to go from place to place (I admire those guys and would love to do it).  Nor am I a full-time traveler (although sometimes it...

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It's all my Dad's fault

My wandering ways? My Dad’s fault. Sure, it was a whole family affair, as I mentioned last month on Mother’s Day, but the reason I had the amazing childhood that I had, one that resulted in my gypsy...

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London Calling!

We all are familiar with London’s red telephone boxes.  They are iconic. And I have certainly taken my fair share of photos on them on my trips to London (red mailboxes too!). The original box was...

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Four Years

Misadventures with Andi gave birth as a blog four years ago in 2008. I started it two days after I joined my current company. I had to really. How better to make my introduction to the blog world than...

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(Not quite) Wordless Wednesday #164: Retro Club Tac Sign

It is no secret around here that I love retro signs, but when you run into one that has a little bit of family history, its special (at least to me!).  A couple of weekends ago my youngest aunt turned...

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(Not quite) Wordless Wednesday #169: Wine Crush

I plan on writing a post on my experience with my first wine crush this weekend.  It will be on deck for this Sunday.  In the meantime, here is a photo I took of some of the beautiful grapes that were...

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Crushing it in Sonoma

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area a certain length of time you are bound to become acquainted with someone who owns a winery, co-ops at a winery, grows their own grapes to make wine OR with...

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WoCavé Adventures

Sponsored This is a sponsored guest post written by me on behalf of Nestlé® SKINNY COW®. Man caves. It is a concept that most Americans are quite familiar with, but for my non-U.S. friends it’s a...

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Sonoma Wine Harvest with Friends

This time last year I did my first wine harvest and had such fond memories of the day that when our friends invited us again, Mr. Misadventures and I jumped at the chance.  The process of picking the...

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Your Life in Movie Moments

I don’t generally devote a whole post to a video and definitely not one that is an ad. Disclosure, I will get paid for every click to watch a video.  But sometimes a video just speaks to you. As I...

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French Friday – Paris My Sweet

I cannot think of a sweeter return of French Friday than to share with you Parisian blogging pal Amy Thomas’s new book Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate).  I met Amy in...

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My 10 most memorable food experiences

There is no doubt I am happiest when I am eating. I love food. Food is life. It enriches the soul. I plan my next meal while I am eating the current one. All my travels around the world are remembered...

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Music Memory Monday – Journey’s Lights

This series was inspired by an old blogging friend’s post on Transient Travels. “When music takes you places” posted in 2009 and I ran my own series for several weeks that year.  I have updated my...

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Music Memory Monday – Bizarre Love Triangle

This week I am taking back in high school, well my high school years any way. I was a Journey/Bruce Springsteen kind of girl, there were a few Duran Duran songs that I liked, but for the most part I...

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Weekly Wanderings #10 – Bryce Canyon

Photo credit: Sel & Poivre Photography Where to start? Last weekend I was in Irvine (California) for the WITs Summit, a conference from Wanderful made up primarily of travel bloggers. I got to see...

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