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my son lives in Copenhagen and we have visited once with another trip in the plans.  love the Carlsberg brewery and many spots.  our next trip will include a sweden excursion 

Have you been to Amsterdam?

The 10 Most Affordable Michelin Three-Star Restaurants (and the 11 Most Expensive)

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/michelin-three-star-restaurants-most-least-expensive

10 Most Expensive Michelin Three-Star Restaurants
Guy Savoy // Paris, France
Kitcho Arashiyama // Kyoto, Japan
Arpège // Paris, France
Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen // Paris, France
Frantzén // Stockholm, Sweden
Le 1947 at Cheval Blanc // Courchevel, France
Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare // New York City, United States
Hof van Cleve // Kruishoutem, Belgium
Geranium (tied with Noma) // Copenhagen, Denmark
Noma (tied with Geranium) // Copenhagen, Denmark
11 Least Expensive Michelin Three-Star Restaurants
King's Joy // Beijing, China
Lung King Heen // Hong Kong
Nakashima // Hiroshima, Japan
Restaurant Überfahrt // Rottach-Egern, Germany
Kikunoi Honten // Kyoto, Japan
Dal Pescatore // Canneto sull'Oglio, Italy
Kashiwaya // Osaka, Japan
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay (tied with Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester) // London, UK
Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester (tied with Restaurant Gordon Ramsay) // London, UK
Kei (tied with Reale) // Paris, France
Reale (tied with Kei) // Castel di Sangro, Italy

60s-70s in SoCal on my birthday.  Picking up a friend who ran a half marathon now.  Brunch downtown then back up to Carlsbad on the beach.

I can't even imagine the infamous LA traffic during "pride month" where every fifth block would be closed for some sort of parade or celebration. 

In 1933, upon the death of their father, Ernest and Julio Gallo took over the family vineyards in Modesto, California, and discovered that they had been mortgaged to the hilt. “My father left the small vineyards hopelessly in debt,…and we were on the verge of losing them,” commented Ernest Gallo, in a rare video interview with Marvin Shanken, Editor & Publisher of Wine Spectator. “We thought that by going into the wine business – taking the crop and converting it into wine – we could probably get enough to save the property, and that’s what we did.”

From that humble beginning, Ernest and Julio Gallo grew their company into the world’s largest wine corporation. By 2007, when Ernest passed away at the age of 97, E&J Gallo produced 40 different wine brands, totaling 75 million cases, with annual revenues of $1.5 billion. Today the company has grown to 130 brands, totaling 100 million cases, with $4 billion in revenues in 2020. E&J Gallo, still a privately held family-run company, employs more than 7,000 people and markets their brands in 100 countries.

But the video interview of Ernest Gallo, filmed by Shanken and his team in 1999, almost didn’t happen. “Ernest was very private,” explained Shanken, “and he rarely spoke to anyone. But we became friends in 1975 when he wrote me a thank you note for an article I had written about the Gallo Winery in my Impact newsletter,” (Shanken’s first publication, before Wine Spectator, Cigar Aficionado, etc.)


https://lizthachmw.com/winestars/rare-video-interview-with-ernest-gallo-reveals-rags-to-riches-story-of-the-worlds-largest-wine-corporation/

We spent five nights in SD and one at LAX.  SD appears to be the nicest larger city in CA, to me.  We stayed mostly north of downtown and near the beach.  Restaurant costs are about 50% higher than here, which is no shock, and I filled up near LAX at $6.20 per.  We saw a few prices under $5 and some others at $6.50 in SD.

We spent a fair bit of time driving kids to school and back in University City (which might not have a U in it).  We visited Torrey Pines State Preserve or Park which is interesting.  Torrey was a dude.

My wife enjoyed visiting Solana Beach where they have artsy fartsy stores and she talked me into buying a glass thing for the condo.  We didn't do anything really notable or exciting, but I got to see more of SD than I had in the past.  Oh, we drove one Sunday to Temecula, not my favorite wine region, very very crowded and over over over priced.  We did one tasting at $28 per, not worth a quarter of that.  Hyper crowded and not fun at all for me.

My step son has a real GF now and my wife is anxious to meet her, they are in SF, so we're probably going there soonish.  

I will credit the Delta lounge at LAX as being the nicest I've visited.  LAX otherwise is a mess.  Not at Toronto mess, but a mess.

1.  SD
2.  SF
3.  LA

Large gap between all I think.  SF has the advantage of being near real wine country.  I'm always kind of amazed even still how eastern CA is more like Texas than CA.

I'm in Clearwater for the first time , choosing to take a weekend here on the gulf coast before sitting thru four days of vball in Orlando.  I take it there's never a break here b/t May and September. Brutal.    Nice place but there's a reason I've never set foot in Fla. Between April and Nov.