Wine, travel and the pursuit of projects

Not too long ago, I was content with owning a little point-and-shoot Panasonic Lumix camera that took fantastic pictures on the go. It did video. It boasted a 2.8 Leica lens. (Leica is a famous optics company that manufactures glass for medical equipment.) Cameras like this are perfect for the masses. They teach you nothing [...]

We’ve been three people on the road.
Three travel companions thrown together by confluence of circumstance and a simple saying yes to a promising journey, we spent ten days driving around the South Island of New Zealand. This little slice of a lifetime was an awesome nature eye feast. We witnessed and experienced first-hand the captivating [...]

Te Anau is a lovely little town two hours south of Queenstown that is travel-famous for two things: sitting on a pretty lake of the same name, which is the largest lake in the South Island, and being the tourist stop to the fjord of Milford Sound.
We decided to make that our stop for the [...]

It had happened to me once before—an educated chance encounter leading to one of the best wine experiences ever. It was in Niagara Falls, Canada, maybe eight years ago—when on a deserted country road, my friend and I accidentally stumbled onto one of the best family-owned wineries operating out of that region. It was a [...]