There are two main routes connecting Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico: The Low Road and the High Road, each named for its respective elevation. The Low Road follows the Rio Grande, while the High Road weaves through the mountains. If you’re making a round trip between the two cities, almost everyone recommended driving the…
Healdsburg is one of our favorite places to visit. Since Alex and I are members at Reeve, we visit at least quarterly to go pick up our wines. Since Healdsburg is only about an hour and a half north of San Francisco, we usually do it as just a day trip. But this time, we…
Emily and Andrew wanted to share the magic of wine country with their friends and family for their wedding celebrations. Emily grew up in the Bay Area and visited the area frequently, and Andrew has come to love it too. They both live in Massachusetts, but their families flew from all over the country to…
If you’ve been following along, you may have seen part one of Lauren and Jonathan’s wedding celebrations, with their portraits at San Francisco City Hall. For part two, Lauren and Jonathan headed north to beautiful wine country for their intimate ceremony and reception. Their friends were the most gracious hosts at their private estate in…
One of the great delights of living in the Bay Area is getting to take little day trips up to wine country, with so many beautiful spots to visit only an hour or two north of San Francisco. These days, after having joined Reeve winery as members and also having more photo sessions again, we’ve…
Nearly a decade ago, he was a groomsman and she a bridesmaid, and their worlds converged at their friends’ wedding. Paul asked Hillary to dance. This would soon kick off a long-distance romance that would take them around the world and from coast to coast. They were always together no matter how far apart they…
Weddings are back! Berkenesh and Norver have been patiently waiting to be wed. They were each working as doctors on the front lines of the Covid response– long distance, on opposite sides of the country, for the past year. And now they were finally able to gather safely with their friends and family for a…
Wine country in the fall. Here is a little peek at a short day trip we took up to Healdsburg, California, just to pick up some wines and to grab a snack atop Singlethread’s temporary roof bar. First, a stop at the Petaluma Seed Bank to pick up some new seeds for our spring plantings–…
We have been all about the California road trip this year. A couple months ago, we headed south, about three hours south of San Francisco, to Paso Robles and the surrounding Central Coast areas. It made for a wonderful long weekend excursion. Our first stop was Bruce Munro’s Field of Light at Sensorio. It’s a…
It’s time to recap May in the Bay! I was around California for most of the month, except my one week in Chicago, so plenty of adventures were had. We start with our Amber Collective planning meeting, where we invited people to help us brainstorm the next event. You can see how it came together…
Tiffany and Tevis actually grew up on the same street in Palo Alto, attending the same elementary school. But because they were a year apart, they never met in California. In fact, they met on the opposite side of the earth in Kenya, where they now run a startup developing sustainable forestry in Africa. But…
Sherry and David first met over coffee, not as a date but because Sherry was a prospective student for Kellogg and David had just finished his degree there. Well, they hit it off, and now that Sherry has also graduated from Kellogg, they’re starting their next chapter together here in California. We met up in…