Life just keeps getting better. This afternoon I had the pleasure of sharing Santa Barbara’s highlights with a group of 38 women (one brought her husband, John) who all graduated from Wellesley College, 18 miles west of Boston. This alumni group represented every decade since the sixties, and each was a CEO of a prominent company.  It was hard to accept that I wouldn’t have time to get to know these women and hear their stories!

A Santa Barbara Air Bus had been chartered to take the group to Lotusland earlier in the day. At 2 p.m. I jumped on the bus and entertained them with historical stories of SB and and details about the Spanish Colonial/Mission Revival architecture. I couldn’t help but mention the many female architects who left us with gorgeous buildings (LutahMaria Riggs, Mary McLoughlin Craig, Julia Morgan, among others) and made sure we drove down Garden Street in order to see Jeff Shelton’s whimsical masterpieces.

Tomorrow I head to the Wine Country with two couples on a “Sideways” tour for Captain Jack’s!