 unit’s private balcony.
Oregon’s postcard-worthy coast awaits with a stay at Salishan Coastal Lodge, perched high on a clifftop overlooking the Pacific. Home to the only aerial park in Oregon, the lodge also offers an 18-hole Peter Jacobsen-designed golf course and a serene spa overlooking the bay, featuring treatments inspired by the coast.
This luxe, ultra-modern hotel, tucked right along the Sea of Cortez, was recently named a Top 100 hotel in the World by Travel + Leisure. And with a stay at the Viceroy Los Cabos, you’ll quickly see why: jaw-dropping architecture, four infinity-edge pools, a unique spa, a rooftop bar, and more.
Find a true desert oasis just outside Phoenix with a stay at Castle Hot Springs Resort, so named for the restorative mineral water that bubbles up from the earth through the grounds. Indulge in a massage offered in a private, waterfront cabana after partaking in one of the hotel’s exclusive guded adventures, like ATV rides, horseback riding, and more.
Just 4 miles from Scottsdale’s downtown, Mountain Shadows Resort is a quintessentially midcentury-modern getaway in the heart of the Sonoran Desert. First built in 1959, the newly remodeled hotel still pays homage to its original, timeless design. Golfers will appreciate a quick round at the on-site Short Course, deemed one of the best par-3 courses in the U.S. by Golf.com.
This 4-star, alpine lodge-style retreat at the base of Spruce Peak offers the only ski-in, ski-out access in Stowe. A perfect family getaway in picturesque New England, the Lodge at Spruce Peak offers unparalleled access to skiing and snowboarding in winter and fly-fishing, hiking, and more in summer.
Jul 20, 2015
MVCC once again hosted the 2015 MVCC Baseball Camp for boys ages 7-15 during the week of July 13th. Over 80 campers attended the annual event which has established itself as the areas premiere summer baseball camp. The campers took part in a variety of organized skill activities as well as pick up games and fun competitions. T-shirts, game balls and special awards were given out to campers at the closing ceremony held on Friday July 17th.Eric Asimov in the New York Times on the impact of climate change in Piedmont, Italy. "The local chapter of Coldiretti, the Italian agricultural lobby, noted that the harvest of grapes for Barolo, which often used to reach into November, now took place weeks earlier."
The Drinks Business on a Napa wine merchant sued for $1M for selling fake wine. "As reported by CNBC, Gundlach says Soutirage, based out of Yountville, had assured him of the wines’ provenance when he expressed concern. However a wine expert he hired privately to assess the credibility of the bottles concluded otherwise."
The good, the bad and the ugly of Apple Music and Apple Radio.
The week we talk about how Apple Radio is now part of the Apple Music subscription service and what it means for people with an iTunes Match subscription.
Actually Clint's favorite number was 357, not 457.Everyone knows Steve, the King of Philofaxy. I am delighted to host his All Stars guest post. I knew that Steve had been developing his setup this year, so I thought it would be nice to see where he is up to with it. When you've read this post, be sure to check out Steve's posts on Philofaxy and at Steve-Morton.com.
Thanks to Ray for this chance to share with you the details of my current 2012 Filofax set up.
The current organiser is an A5 Malden Ochre and I love this colour. I bought it on Philofaxy Ad-Spot from a reader in UK. It didn’t come with any inserts or accessories, but that didn’t worry me; I just transferred the contents of my grey A5 to this organiser.
So starting at the front and working to through the different sections in the time honoured fashion!
You will notice I don’t keep any cards or stickers in the front pockets. The flyleaf is also a tad plain vanilla too!
My first section is my ‘Notes In’ section. It contains a few sheets of lined paper and a couple of to-do sheets. I use this section to capture things if I have the organiser away from my desk and I just want to quickly jot something down if we are in a meeting or seeing clients or if I have a sudden brain wave and I don’t want to forget it in a blink of an eye… which happens too often these days.
Then we come to the planner section. This starts off with a 2012-year planner, I use this mainly for planning visits to UK, visitors to our house here in France and any other significant dates.
We then move in to the main core of my planning section my A5 Enhanced TM insert designed and created by Ray and myself. It’s been tweaked a couple of times since its original publication, I’m not even using the latest version myself yet! But for me this has been working very well, with enough appointment space for my day-to-day requirements. I’m very task and reminder driven so the right hand page with all the reminders and to-do’s gets extensive use each day/week.
I’ve made a personalised thin reoccurring tab that slots in neatly to remind me of site updates of which there are two each day. These are printed on 160 gsm card, so I rub out the ticks and they get reused each week. This saves me from having to write out the names of the sites each week.
I slot in a To do sheet for big events/projects such as Philofaxy meet ups, one side will be my packing list, the reverse the names of people attending and the reserve list with phone number details written on it in case of any last minute no shows.
Towards the end of my planner section I then have a 2013-year planner…empty at the moment.
Then I have a month per page insert purely for planning Philofaxy blog posts, this is a customised version of the A5 month per page insert created and published by Ray and myself. The customisation is the inclusion of the FFAT, FFAF rota, Web finds, Roundtable dates etc. These are already included to save me having to write them in. I use a highlighter pen to show up dates that don’t currently have a post allocated to them. Sometimes I also add notes to the days when I might not be about so if it happens to be a Tuesday or a Friday I will know to do Webfinds a bit earlier in the cycle of things.
Moving on to the third section this is my journal section this is just a standard Filofax week per view A5 insert, but the English only one as it has equal spaces per day including weekends. I’m not a big journaling person, but I am trying to get better, I’ve been following Ray’s excellent series on journaling to improve my skills….. work in progress as they say!
Next year I will print my own diary insert for my journal but on decent quality paper so I can use a gel pen or fountain pen without the issue of bleed through on the pages.
I should say at this point I use three Today markers, the first to indicate the current week in the planner section, the second to indicate the blog month planner, and the third is the current week in my journal section. These are just standard Filofax ordinary boring black today markers… no stickers or anything fancy!
My next section is my ‘To-do’ section it’s mainly used for long term to do planning and spare sheets, so it’s a fairly thin section.
Similarly the next section is devoted to Notes, where I jot things down in and then the notes get moved elsewhere or transferred in to the planner.
Next is my ‘Information’ section, it contains reference information such as the instructions for changing time zones on my over complicated watch! It’s a great watch being solar powered and also locked to the UK National Physical laboratory atomic clock frequency standard radio transmissions… but if I travel from UK to France or vice-versa I have to change the time zone, it’s quite straight forward to do, but I’ve messed it up too often, so I now carry the instructions in my Filofax!
I also have Tube maps, road maps, railway maps, and an A3street map of London, all self printed and they all fold neatly in to the A5.
The last section of my A5 is my Address/Site information section this is another busy section for me. The names and addresses I maintain using the FilofaxAddress book software and these are printed off on to A5 paper with 7 contacts per side and a new letter per sheet. I index these in standard A-Z two letter tabs. I index all my contacts in first name order, for some reason I can remember someone’s first name but not always their second name (family name). I update the database a couple of times a year and print off new sheets for my Filofax.
Between the first and second letter in each section (A&B, C&D) I keep an Internet site information sheet one side for the first letter, the reverse for the second letter.
These are sheets I created myself available on Philofaxy,