4th Annual Summer Solstice “How Women Investors and Entrepreneurs Will Revive the California Economy” Hey Divas, Looking for some money, honey? Well, then this is the event you should attend if you live in Northern California.I won’t be there because I’ll be speaking at University of San Francisco. But my intern Melissa will be there….
After a week-long, action-packed birthday celebration in Santa Barbara,we decided that the best possible icing on the cake would be to finish the trip off with a final stop at the famed Ojai Valley Inn and Spa. As soon as you enter, you’ll understand how this glam resort walked away with the Triple A, 5…
“I’m sorry, I did not recognize you with your clothes on.” How many times can you use that line? Well, I got to use it while I was at the ABC studios in San Francisco when our MAN Gilles Marini was hanging out in the green room for his segment on View From the Bay….
Surf’s up and it’s time to head back to the beach. Our stay for the next two nights was the Harbor View Inn perfectly situated across from West Beach. Sitting on our private, over-sized outdoor deck we had unobstructed views of a fiery sunset dipping it’s blood red nails into the ocean. Besides a primo…
Solvang is an all-in-good-fun slightly hokey, homey Danish American town affectionately referred to as Little Denmark. European farm-style buildings line the colorful flower-filled streets, and authentic Scandi bakeries,(I loved the “kringles” almond paste filled racetrack shaped pastries but was not so big a fan of the overly-sweet “aebleskiver,” fried pancake balls ladled with raspberry jam…
Happy, although a bit saddle-sore from riding the range, we gave our horsies a final pat and drove to the Hadsten House Inn and Spa in Solvang. Don’t let the modest exterior throw you, the HH is so not your everyday motor lodge. Newly renovated, it was styled-out cleverly, comfortably and creatively by an ex-Pottery…
We had an early morning reservation for a walking tour of Lotusland, so we had a quick cappuccino on the roof and then got totally lost-per usual- on what should have been a five minute drive. ( No more easy HWY 101 directions.) There’s probably nothing worse than a bossy writer, however, anyone visiting within…