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Welcome 2026!

2025 Year in Review . . . . . Highlights . A fabulous trip to Iceland (Golden Circle) and Scotland (Edinburgh & Highlands) . A fun trip to Kauai, for surfing, sun, and relaxation. Inna's trip to Northern Italy. Inna's company trip to San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. Fun weekend trips to . Calistoga. Incline Village (Lake Tahoe), Nevada. . Carmel-by-the-Sea. Mendocino. Sonoma. Attending concerts,…

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Welcome 2025!

Welcome 2025! . We are celebrating the New Year at Aqua Dome in Langenfeld, Austria! . . . We had a wonderful New Year's Day celebration at Aqua Dome with a fine dinner and an enormous dessert buffet. . . . . . . . . 2024 in Review. Highlights . A fabulous trip to Portugal with stops in Porto, Douro Valley, Aquadome, Piodao, Coimbra,…

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Welcome 2024!

With Covid-19 gone, we are happy to move into 2024! Let's hope for better tidings. . . . . . . 2023 in Review. Highlights . A fabulous trip to Southern Italy with stops in Rome, Naples, Sorrento, Pompei, Salerno, Amalfi Coast, Capri, Ischia, Matera, Alberobello, Otranto, and Ostuni . An exciting trip to Costa Rica featuring close encounters with toucans, sloths, and monkeys .…

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Welcoming 2023!

With Covid-19 mostly gone, we are happy to move into 2023! Let's hope for better tidings. . . . 2022 in Review. Highlights . Jobs (Inna accepted an excellent position at Drata). A month-long workation in Boston . . Day trips to Portland, Maine, New Hampshire, Newport, and Cape Cod. Mini-trip to the Berkshires. A month-long workation in San Francisco. Learning to wing foil in…

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Welcoming 2021!

Ah, 2020 be gone! . With COVID-19 changing our lives (mainly for the worse), we are happy to move into 2021! I look forward to a time when wearing masks is no longer required, when lines to Whole Foods are a distant memory, and when I can sip my Philharmonic coffee at Philz and enjoy my freshly baked croissants at Fleur de Cocoa. . Despite…

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Snowboarding Verbier

I have always dreamed of snowboarding or skiing in Switzerland, so when an opportunity presented itself, I decided to seize it.. . . . . . From the many possible Swiss resorts, I selected Verbier based on feedback from a Swiss citizen who has lived there. My alternatives included Zermatt, Chamonix in France, and St. Anton am Arlberg in Austria.. . . . Since I…

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