I love showing people my home state of Texas. One of the first things visitors to Texas want to do is eat Mexican food! The restaurant gets bonus points if it has a mariachi band. While good Mexican food can be found in all the major cities of Texas, nothing beats San...
Songs have been written about it. Wars have been fought on its banks. The Danube River flows through ten countries and more European capital cities than any other river in the world. Before the pandemic, I was lucky enough to set sail on The Danube Waltz with Viking...
If you happen to wander into the Bull Lion Ranch tasting room in Glen Rose, Texas when owner Chuck Tordiglione is in the house, have a seat at the bar and order a bottle of his award-winning Texianti wine (a play on the words Texas and chianti). Strike up a...
Bingham Family Vineyards has been growing wine grapes on their family farm in the Texas Panhandle since 2003. One of only a handful of growers and winemakers producing wine from 100% Texas fruit, Bingham also supplies grapes for some of Texas’ most well-known...
Prosecco, one of Italy's best known and loved exports, is fresh, sparkling, and thirst-quenching. Prosecco is easy to drink and pairs well with summer fruits, seafood, cured meats, cheese, olives—really, almost anything. I had my first taste of Prosecco in Italy,...
Wander With Wonder is possible because of a group of amazing writers who love to travel—Around the World or Across the Street—and share experiences with you, our readers. We are sharing some of those stories with you over the next few weeks. Follow along as our...
You’ve probably heard of Fort Lauderdale, a Florida seaside town just north of Miami Beach. But north of Fort Lauderdale, on Florida’s coastal highway A1A, is a place that you may not have heard of yet, a place that feels as if time stands still. Lauderdale-by-the-Sea...
For two nights each month, strange things happen at Checkered Past Winery, an urban wine bar located in Dallas’ Southside neighborhood. Wine bottles disappear. Amazon packages fall from the air. Salt becomes paper and paper turns to salt. I recently joined Wander's...
We bypassed the medieval village and drove directly through a landscape covered in vineyards to the ruins of the château. I noticed reddish clay soil and round rocks known as galets roulés, said to protect the vines from heat and cold and provide excellent drainage....