I’ve been thinking a lot about our cross country trip this week. These thoughts were spurred by the arrival of Kerry’s parents who just spend the last three weeks driving on a very similar route across America, from Berlin, Connecticut to Guerneville, California. They drove her little Toyota Yaris all the way across, as a [...]
The weather has treated us VERY well on the trip across this fine country and we’ve had very moderate temperatures for the most part. However, on this leg, it felt a whole lot like August. Or what I think of when I think of August. The drive out of Boise, through the west side of [...]
If our first day in Yellowstone was the day of the bison, the second belonged to elk. We saw them everywhere, but our best sighting was on our way to the Grand Tetons and Jackson, as we left the park. There was a large Bull Elk right next to the road on the passenger side. [...]
You can’t visit Yellowstone without taking some time to appreciate all of the massive thermal features in the park. Clearly, the spouting celebrity in the park is Old Faithful, but we were determined to avoid the masses that gather there every two hours for the big performance. We sought out his lesser known, steamy brethren [...]
I have to start by saying that 26 hours in Yellowstone is too little time. Unfortunately that’s what we had to work with, given our timetable to get across country. Its quite daunting to try to absorb all the possibilities of what there is to do in the park and, somehow, narrow it down to [...]
We drove across the bottom of Montana from Billings to Silver Lake, the tiny, tiny town where we stayed at the northeastern tip of Yellowstone. The drive was filled with picturesque fields dotted with cows, and beautiful large log homes on sprawling ranches. There is clearly more money in Montana. We stopped in Red Lodge [...]
It was a stunning drive between Deadwood and Billings so I just thought I would include some of the highlights here.
After a big farmhouse breakfast at Circle View Ranch, we blazed out of the Badlands, through Rapid City, and into Custer State Park. I had heard that the Black Hills were gorgeous from multiple reliable sources, so I wanted to see for myself. We thought that a good way to get an introduction to the [...]
I've recently moved my life from Brooklyn, New York to Sonoma County, California to pursue a life in food and wine. I am now the executive chef at [big bottom market] and this blog chronicles my adventures out here in wine country.
