Laid Back Loreto, Mexico
Welcome back! Thanks for joining us again, or if you’re new, welcome! We’re spending the winter on the Baja Peninsula in a planned community called Loreto Bay near the tiny dusty town of Loreto. But before we talk about that we want to just mention our Christmas vacation. We flew into the Burbank, California airport. Many of you may remember Johnny Carson jokingly referring to "Beautiful Downtown Burbank.” It might be beautiful, but let’s just say the airport is a lot smaller
John Zuchero
Jan 149 min read
Northern Italian Lake Country
With just a few days left in our yearly autumn journey, we decided to travel farther north to the Italian lake country area. We stayed on Lake Maggiore, which is the second largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda. Lake Maggiore is partly in Italy and partly in Switzerland. After being socked in the first day, the next day brought high clouds and by noon, the sun was out and it was beautiful. We decided to take a long drive along the coastline. We made our way to the small to
John Zuchero
Nov 6, 20254 min read
“The Quest for the Holy Barolo - Finale
The last few days in the Barolo region ends with four wineries that have been identified as having wines with the characteristics John is searching for: minerality, flintiness, tar, and graphite. Those may sound strange, but that’s his “quest”. What is stranger was how he identified the next four wineries. He used ChatGPT, the AI tool that’s all the buzz in the last few months. John has been having a running dialogue with “Chatty” and it identified three of the four wineries
John Zuchero
Oct 29, 20257 min read
