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Meet Mary Cary
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Earlier this week I attended the Bay Area Bloggers Society meeting that was being hosted at the Video Blog Marketing studio in Sausalito. This is where I met the very interesting and dynamic Mary Cary. I asked Mary if she would share some of her favorite Bay Area places with us. She agreed!
What do you love most about the Bay Area? The weather and the outdoor spaces
Where is your favorite place to hike/bike in the Bay Area? West Marin – love road biking out there or on Mt. Tam
Favorite place to listen to live music? I like to play live music (I play guitar in Terry Lauderdale Band, TerryLauderdaleBand.com and my favorite place to play is Slims in San Francisco or The Cow Palace.
Favorite place to take your dog? Running around near Old Mill Park in Mill Valley
What is your favorite restaurant in the Bay Area? Sushi Ran Sausalito
What is your favorite place to get coffee or tea? Peets Mill Valley
Where do you shop for clothing? Shadows San Anselmo or Famous in Mill Valley for local folks – or Hot Topic for my Band Gear.
If you had an out of town guest coming to visit that had never been to the Bay Area where would you take them? Marin Headlands, Tiburon or West Marin
Anything else you would like to share with our readers? Thank you for reading! Reading is good for the brain!
Tell us a little bit more about you:
Having my own record label for the past 10 years and developing websites, identity branding, social networking, search engine optimization, editing and producing great music, sound and video blogs was the perfect next logical step to putting together my new company, Video Blog Marketing – marketing for local businesses.
Mary’s specialties are: New Media Marketing, Website Development, Wordpress Blog Development, Professional Branding, Video Production, Music/Sound Production, Motion Graphics Production, Local and Worldwide Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Networking, Shredding Guitarist/Producer/Songwriter.
Follow Mary Cary on Twitter @videoblogmarket
An Evening in Napa
Posted by: | CommentsWhen you live in Marin County Napa is an easy and quick getaway place for a relaxing weekend. It’s only a 30 minute drive to the vineyards, wineries and winding roads.
Disclaimer: I am not a wine connoisseur, in fact I rarely drink wine but this weekend I practiced the principle of when in Rome… when in Napa, I drink wine.
The original plan for this weekend was to rent a tandem bicycle and peddle around Napa with our friends.
The rain changed our plans.
Instead we went to our friend’s house, had a glass of wine in front of the fire place and headed to the nearby town of St. Helena for dinner at a|k|a Bistro. a|k|a Bistro is a hip and fun place with original items on the menu.
Dinner started off with a glass of Marc Murray Ranch Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir. I approved. As I said in the disclaimer I am not a big wine drinker so I’m not going to be using any of those fluffy terms to describe the wine. I either like it or I don’t.
Our friends told us we HAD to try the Crispy Portabella Fries with Truffle Aioli, so we did. They were SO good. You have GOT to try them too!
I had the pan seared salmon on top of mashed potatoes and autumn vegetables. I LOVE mashed potatoes so pretty much any dish served with mashed potatoes makes me happy. The salmon and the veggies were tasty too.
What I like about a|k|a is that they specialize in farm fresh food.
After dinner we strolled down the street to Cameo Cinema, an old small town theatre owned by solopreneur Cathy Buck. One night it’s a movie theater, another night a concert hall. This night was a concert with classical guitarist named Joe Galambos who was playing a Robert Ruck guitar. (My personal favorite guitars are Wolverton guitars – but I’m biased and that is a story for another day.) The music Joe Galambos played was beautiful and he’s very talented. The theater was also very cool, it has double love seat style theater chairs so you can snuggle up with your honey during the show.
We spent the night at our friend’s house in Napa. The next day we… to be continued.
This is half of the game hen and autumn vegetable dish my friends ordered. They shared.
This is what Celia ordered. I think it was short ribs and fries. The fries were delicious. (I snuck a few.)
