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28 Jun

Bali High, A Spiritual Journey in the Lap of Luxury

Oh, it took me a long time to get to Bali! I had been wanting to go to Bali since I wrote a report about Indonesia in fifth grade!  Pushy was willing to take me anywhere in the world to celebrate my (gulp!) 70th birthday, but where would it be?  Someplace beautiful! Someplace I hadn't been before! Some place spiritual! Bali's time had arrived! I will never forget a girl in high school who came up to us while we were all...
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22 Sep

A Jetsetter’s Love Letter to The Peninsula Hong Kong

We've arrived! The Peninsula sent their British Racing Green Rolls Royce to pick us up in style!   There are great hotels and then there are Grand Hotels!  The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong is truly a Grand Hotel!  It is consistently rated as one of the top hotels in world.  And what makes it so special?  We have stayed there many times and it always feels like an elegant home away from home to us.  The ultimate luxury...
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10 Apr

His and Hers

    Picky and Pushy have been happily married for  a very long time! Forty seven years!  People ask us what the secret is to our happy marriage.  Well, we have lots of them, like listening to each other and listening to Cole Porter love songs.  As Cole would say, and we would agree,"Birds do it, bees do it, even chic Malteses ( a little poetic license) at the Ritz do it, Let's do it! Let's fall in love!" But another secret is...
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14 Feb

La Dolce Vita- Valentines from Venice

With love to Tony and Jetset Romeo, the sweetest and most fun travel companions in the whole world!  Volare! Come Fly with me, Jetset Romeo!   We couldn't believe how lucky we were. We had the entire Air France First Class section all to ourselves! Romeo only had to be in his bag for take off and landing!   We've Arrived!   A water taxi speeds us to the Il Palazzo   [caption...
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25 Dec

Christmas in Paris

      We cannot celebrate Christmas without thinking of Christmases Past.  Although Christmas usually finds us snug in our sweet beds in Malibu, we have also spent it in other places like Venice, Las Vegas, Arizona at the Boulders, Taos and our most magical one at the El Rancho Motel in Gallup New Mexico.  (more about that on another day). But today we want to share Christmas 2009 with you.  Just a few days before Christmas we suddenly  decided we wanted to...
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19 Dec

The Story of our Christmas Tree

The happiest time of the year revolves around our Christmas tree.  We love searching for the perfect tree, reuniting with our favorite ornaments again,  hanging each one with care and finally celebrating our grand creation.  It is all about tradition.  And Love.  We are dreaming of a  sparkly White Christmas!  Happy scrolling!   We search all the big tree lots in LA for the perfect Christmas tree. It must be at least 12 feet tall, have lots of...
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