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Green Luxury at the h2hotel in Healdsburg

The h2hotel in Healdsburg has to rank among the greenest and most upbeat hotels in the world. I toured the hotel today in advance of their fully b0oked July 4 weekend and was impressed with the deep attention to detail and brilliant design that squeezed this spacious feeling hotel into an underutilized downtown space.  The [...]

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Gate on Chalk Hill Road in Healdsburg

Chalk Hill Gates

Chalk Hill Road from Healdsburg to Windsor is great to explore when you are looking for a little adventure and some great back road scenery. Today the horses were variously running, sleeping, or rolling in the dust. If your timing is lucky, you are likely to see wild pigs, wild turkeys, and flocks of other [...]

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Felta Rd Rear Lawn

Felta Area of Healdsburg

The Felta Road area of Healdsburg is right at the border of the Dry Creek Valley Appellation and the Russian River Valley Appellation, just west of Westside Road. Felta’s claim to fame includes Westside School, a charming elementary school throwback to a bygone era when teachers knew all the students and the school was a [...]

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Healdsburg Craftsman on Matheson

Downtown Healdsburg Real Estate

Downtown Healdsburg real estate is casually limited by walking distance. You can choose whether to go three or four blocks from the downtown Healdsburg Plaza for your unofficial boundary, but if it takes more than five minutes to walk to a public concert or Farmer’s Market, you aren’t in the downtown core. I would define [...]

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Alexander Valley in Healdsburg

The Alexander Valley runs along the Russian River from Healdsburg in the south to Cloverdale in the north. This is famous vineyard country and is home to many premium wineries and vineyards. Here’s what the Wine Enthusiast had to say about the Alexander Valley, “The Alexander Valley is the most diverse grape-growing region in California’s [...]

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Wikiup Greens in Santa Rosa

My wife and I moved into Wikiup Greens a little over two years ago. We had never thought about a 55+ senior community to live in. I guess a combination of “just not thinking about it” plus our happiness where we were living kept it off the radar for us. Still, folks age, and our [...]

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Windsor

Windsor was a languishing small town just north of Santa Rosa until the 1980′s. A surge of construction followed for the next several decades, and the town has grown to over 25,000 people vaulting past neighboring Healdsburg. New construction of shopping including a Home Depot and WalMart has made Windsor a shopping destination as well [...]

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Sonoma

Our oldest settlement, Sonoma, was founded by Spanish missionaries in 1823 and is known as the birthplace of American California, for it was in this town plaza that the Bear Flag Revolt took place and a Bear Flag was first raised on June 14, 1846. The rebelling men claimed to act on the orders of [...]

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Sebastopol

Sebastopol is an agriculturally based town in Sonoma County. The population was 7,774 at the 2000 census, but its businesses also serve surrounding rural portions of Sonoma County, totalling about 50,000 people. It is about a 20 minute drive from the Pacific Ocean, between Santa Rosa and Bodega Bay, and is known for its progressive [...]

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Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, USA. As of July 1, 2005, the population of Santa Rosa was approximately 156,200 residents. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California’s wine country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont. Santa Rosa’s [...]

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