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22 DISCOVERING MENDOCINO

Mendocino certainly wasn’t on our travel
radar, our northern range in California usually
ends at Sonoma. But we’re living in strange
times, and it planted the kernel of an idea for
an upscale road trip ‘

136 GOLDEN STATE HIKING TRAILS

In a gorgeous valley filled with wildflowers and
framed by 5,000-foot-high mountains, hike
along a river preserve in a region that ancestral
Chumash people believed holds mystical pow-
ers. Walk under live oak trees that shade
painterly landscapes awash in spring lupine,
casting a soft lavender hue across the rolling
grasslands.

Amy Laughinghouse

London-based writer and photographer Amy Laughinghouse has attempted to
overcome her fears (and sometimes basic common sense) through her adven-
tures in 30 countries around the world. She dishes on the perks and perils of glo-
betrotting for publications like LonelyPlanet.com, AAA Journey Magazine,
Virtuoso Life, and The Dallas Morning News. Her travel tales can also be found on
her website, www.amylaughinghouse.com.

Jody Jaffe & John MuncieMuncie

Jody and John are award-winning journalists and novelists. John is a Lowell
Thomas Award-Winner and was feature editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune,
arts editor of The Baltimore Sun and writer-editor-columnist for the travel de-
partment of The Los Angeles Times. Jody was a journalist at the Charlotte Ob-
server, where she was on a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. Her articles have
been published in many publications including The New York Times and The Los
Angeles Times. They live on a farm in Lexington, Va.
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