The World Views

  I was actually prepared to abhor this place. I'd heard well-nigh its Vegas similar grapheme (there is fifty-fifty a casino on the Canadian side), its endless tourist traps, too tacky gift shops. The "what a shame they had to ruin a natural spectacle" whispers too the endless development. Yes, this is all in that location inwards abundance, but you lot know what? It doesn't diminish from the falls i bit. I'd seen the thousand-plus human foot plunge of Yosemite falls upwardly closed too wondered why a puny drib of less than 2 hundred feet hogged all the press. I know now...it's non the drop, it's the ability too the sheer majority of H2O plunging over the precipice that is too then astounding. I've read many articles, visited many spider web sites, too seen hundreds of advertisements for the falls over the years too responded amongst a ho-hum. Nothing you lot run across inwards impress or whatsoever other media does this house whatsoever...

In Part One of this trip, nosotros were upgraded to the Presidential Suite, had 2 rude breakfasts, went to the Bronx Zoo, Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, in addition to rode several miles of subway.  Today, nosotros abide by that inwards this really expensive city, it is possible to swallow good in addition to really cheap. After dinner nosotros walked over to the New York Comedy Club where nosotros were met at the door past times manager and comedian Steve Aarons. At showtime, nosotros were led into a hallway where nosotros idea nosotros were on the agency to the showroom. At to the lowest degree that’s what nosotros thought, the hallway turned out to BE the showroom. In what has to endure the most cramped infinite I’ve e'er seen inwards a comedy club, nosotros watched several really funny comedians in addition to a few mediocre ones. When the exhibit was reaching the 3 threescore minutes indicate - alongside no terminate inwards sight - in ad...

Those of you lot who receive got followed our adventures over the years know that nosotros dear New York .  I'd receive got to country that, pound for pound, it's the most exciting urban inwardness inwards America.  Here is a recap of the 2nd trip nosotros took to the urban inwardness dorsum over a long Martin Luther King Day weekend inwards 2000... Our 2-day New York adventure lastly autumn whetted our appetite for more. We had thus much fun that nosotros decided to furnish inwards the belatedly winter/spring to explore it a piddling deeper. This time, past times carefully tracking hotel room rates, nosotros were able to notice a hotel inwards Manhattan. I loathe to country it was cheap because at $120 a nighttime it would live upwards in that location almost anywhere else. In Manhattan, that’s a bargain. We stayed at the Hotel Pennsylvania, across the street from Madison Square Garden in addition to Penn Station. The flying was on American Airlines into Islip on L...

We're throwin' downward today on the Cocktail Hour. My friend, Lee Drake, from New York sent me a bottle of roughly Finger Lakes region Riesling. Of course, since I'm biased towards California wines, that way I've got to challenge it. I invited my friend Scott over, who is a large Temecula vino fan, got the closest California Riesling inward mode together with price, drug Tim out to the dorsum yard together with said..."we've got a challenge, boys." So hither nosotros go... Watch The Video! In ane corner, Dr. Konstantin Frank semi-dry Riesling from New York. In the other, Fetzer's Riesling from Mendocino County inward Northern California. Since nosotros acknowledge our bias, nosotros are doing a blind tasting. My wife, Letty, is pouring the spectacles out of our sight together with solely she knows what we're drinking. Wine publish one, amongst a fruity bouquet, has a slightly sugariness syrupy oral fissure together with...