HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015! Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot?
“It is a new year!
What will you do different?
Will you be the same?”
Goodbye 2014! (Wow, this year went by fast!) Hello 2015!
“Wet earth and sunshine
You can smell it in the air
After the rain.”
Here’s my year in review. My Blogs (see previous blogs) and Facebook posts (Joshua Weisel & JoshWillTravel) have stories, details and cool pictures for most events! Please check them out by following the links at the bottom of the page.
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January
LA Times Travel Show at the Los Angeles Convention Center
Hosted Reception at the Sportsman’s Lodge in Studio City
“Buy Tuscany” Event at the Italian Cultural Institute in Westwood
February
IsramWorld and Israel Tourism Event at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills
Japan Tourism Event at the Doubletree Hilton Downtown Los Angeles
Mexico Tourism Event at the Universal Sheraton Hotel in Universal City
Los Angeles 9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show at the Long Beach Convention Center
March
Four Seasons Event at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills
Dinner at Cafe Firenze with Carrie and John in Moorpark
Sunday Brunch at On Sunset Restaurant at the LUXE Hotel On Sunset!
Travel Massive Los Angeles Event at The Roof on Wilshire
Italian Dreams at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills
Joshua Weisel Departs Willett Travel (effective March 31st)
NOTE: Willett Travel was bought by FROSCH. I became JoshWillTravel (Luxury Travel Advisor, Lifestyle and Travel Writer, Independent Consultant) full time! Read my Blogs!
April – May
Passover
Dinners at Le Sanglier French Restaurant (celebrated two birthday parties there this year)
Mother’s Day “The Lion in Winter” Matinee at the Colony Theatre in Burbank and Lunch at Bow & Truss in North Hollywood
Dinner at Fifty Seven in Downtown L.A.
Memorial Day “Chef” at the ArcLight Sherman Oaks and Dinner at Versailles in Encino
June
Phyllis Patterson RIP – She Changed My Life!
“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.” ~Japanese Proverb
E. Caitlin Phillips RIP June 14, 2014 “May the four winds blow you safely home!”
St. Paul’s Reunion in San Francisco! (and the Road Trip north and south)
Return to the Paramount Ranch in Agoura 2014 – Visiting Old Ghosts!
July – August
Summer “Staycation” in Los Angeles
Box Seats for Four Great Summer Concerts at the Hollywood Bowl! Joshua Bell & Friends, Yo-Yo Ma and a nice Dinner on the patio at Patina, Beethoven (with Dudamel and the L.A. Phil doing the 5th Symphony) and “HAIR!”
A Celebration of Caitlin’s Life in Santa Monica
The Simpsons Marathon on FX
September
Burning Man! (via the internet)
The Simpsons Take the Hollywood Bowl! EXCELLENT FUN!
Happy Jewish New Year 5775!
Richard Edward “Ed” Whitchurch III RIP September 29, 2014 (a Vietnam Veteran)
“You can get anything you want, (exceptin’ Alice) at Alice’s Restaurant.”
“May the Four Winds Blow You Safely Home”
October
Road Trip! California-Oregon-Nevada (San Jose, Santa Cruz, Ashland, Reno, Lake Tahoe)
Great vacation! Saw old friends and family, visited UCSC and the Grateful Dead Special Collection, celebrated my father’s birthday and saw some great theatre in Ashland (“The Tempest”, “Richard III” and “The Cocoanuts”), partied in Reno, relaxed at Lakeland Village in South Lake Tahoe, and drove scenic US Highway 395 south to L.A.
(I’m still working on finishing the Road Trip Blogs! Please be patient.)
November – December
Thanksgiving 2014 – The Feast! (Our annual family food fest)
Otis Redding RIP Dec 18, 2014 – Had to say goodbye to the old boy, very sad.
“He was a great dog. He had a good life. May the Four Winds blow him safely home.”
Dinner at the Border Grill & “Blithe Spirit” with Angela Landsbury at the Ahmanson Theatre
Hannukah!
Festivus, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Dinner with Friends!
“Another Year Gone!
Say Buh-Bye 2014…
A New Year Ahead!”
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” ~ T. S. Eliot
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