We are all checked in at The Allison Inn and ready to take our wine tour with Mary from WineDirt.com. … [Read more...]

Looks like just another pizza place, right? Actually, it does more than serve great pizza---like the Waldorf Pizza we enjoyed (yum). This is Portland's first LEEDs qualified building. That means it makes minimum impact on the environment. Aside from … [Read more...]

Thats a brick of tea. It's divided up because it has been used, and in places still is used, as a measure of exchange. This, I learned today, is what those pesky colonists threw in Boston harbor: bricks of tea. Even so, we're I there then, a tea tax … [Read more...]

Our next stop was The Pearl Bakery to sample a variety of baked goods including an anise-infused pastry that will be among those that we bring home on Friday. Yummy breads that would be wasted in school lunches. This tour kept better and better. Or, … [Read more...]