Aaron A. Wallace

I have always liked sailing ever since I spent a summer with my local sea scout troop, getting my small boat sailing merit badge in boy scouts and hanging around the Newport Beach Sea Base scouting facility pretty much continually until the siren song of teenage romance called me away. So lately I discovered the joys of sailing videos on YouTube and I started to read books about sailing originally I read books by solo circumnavigators such as Bernard  Moitessier's  The Long Way and John Kretschmer's books and then I discovered the historical fiction of the great age of sail by Patrick O'Brian. I still read a lot of nonfiction books by sailors but I absolutely devour the Aubrey/Maturin books, I dare anyone to stop after the third novel.

While I am not to happy with the video quality of this it does convey a truth that bourbon hunters need to know, buying fancy high end bourbon is mostly about building relationships with the stores that sell it. You are not going to have consistent luck with just calling all the stores within one hundred miles of your location and hoping to get bottles held for you. There is a whole world of less rare seventy five, one hundred and, one hundred and fifty dollar bottles of bourbon that stores have a difficult time selling because they just are not as rare and desirable as the buffalo trace offerings, the crazy thing is these other bourbons are also very good and pretty helpful to have around when you do have those super rare bottles, so you don't drink them! Those bottles let the clerk know who is serious about having a collection of rare and interesting bottles of bourbon and who is just looking to flip bottles that have serious grey market premiums. This notion of the grey (or...

Nemours Mansion and Garden is the largest french formal garden in America. It is located in New Castle County, Delaware. It is a former estate of the Duponts, and was built over 1909 -1910 for Alfred Dupont's Second wife Alicia. The estate is done in the Rococo Style of Louis XVI. If you like grand estates and the excesses of the original American Gilded age (which sadly I feel like we are entering into again) this is an amazing example of the gaudy excess of robber barons and Rail Tycoons. The Duponts made their fortune in the production of gunpowder I am glad that they plowed so much back into the community in the form of grand estates, many of the local cultural amenities are housed on their former homes. Nemours is pleasant since it is still so rarely visited almost all of the locals I have met have never been there, I want to get a season pass so I can go jogging on the nearly two mile paved path that follows the perimeter, in the spring and summer.

I suffer from a chronic autoimmune disorder called Ulcerative Colitis it causes inflammation of the lower intestines. Stress is likely the biggest trigger that I have but I need to keep a detailed food diary to try and track my symptoms moving forward and hopefully find out what sort of food triggers the condition so that I can avoid this outcome.