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I’ve just closed my eyes again…

How did I get here?

Sundance Bed & Breakfast is the culmination of a decades-long dream for my wife, Alma. We’ve traveled all over and often stay in B&Bs (Alma’s preference) but I always resisted when the topic inevitably came up about owning and running our own! Undaunted, Alma continued to research and inquire; she reached out to other innkeepers and subscribed to realty sites for B&Bs all over North America. In the meantime she had a successful but stressful career as Executive Producer of live musical events, variety shows and commercials for a Spanish-language TV Network. She was nominated for the prestigious Emmy Award multiple times and I’ll admit to feeling pretty cool walking the red carpet with her. Ironically, the time she actually won (for a Public Service Announcement), we skipped the ceremony…

As much as she enjoyed producing events, her dream to own a B&B tugged at her and she wouldn’t let my reluctance dissuade her! She moved TV production to the back burner – so to speak – and enrolled in Culinary School. There she elevated her already fabulous cooking skills (OK, I’m biased) by studying the French Technique from Le Cordon Bleu, ultimately producing meals that were not just delicious but so elegantly plated I felt I should be better dressed just to eat them! After graduating with Honors, she parlayed her success at school into a job interning under Master Chef Michael Cimarusti in the kitchen of one of LA’s finest restaurants: Providence on Melrose Ave. From there she helped open LA Mill in Silverlake (voted one of the 10 best boutique coffee shops in the country by Bon Appetit Magazine) and then worked with multiple caterers, including Wolfgang Puck Catering in Hollywood. But, in reality, this was all part of her master plan to one day have her own place!

For our 20th anniversary in 2011, I planned a surprise trip to Paso where we stayed at another fabulous B&B called Belvino Viaggio (now closed). We cruised to the beach towns, visited Hearst Castle, explored downtown Paso and, of course, did lots of wine-tasting and restaurant-trolling! We both fell in love with the place. Each day I’d planned a different surprise and on the last day my final surprise was a visit to a home on top of a hill that Alma had originally shown me as part of her ongoing research (and that I had pretended to ignore). The house had been empty for awhile and there was plenty of work that needed to be done, but the view was there and the potential was obvious. That home is now Sundance Bed & Breakfast!

All the fabulous Paso wine and the seductive allure of actually living in wine country finally made me see the light and that was all Alma needed! The rest happened in record time – I’m still a little dazed by it – as we sold our home, changed our lives and moved from LA to Paso! Alma then went into overdrive: securing the name, registering the business, launching the website, designing the landscaping, contracting contractors and decorating each room herself to create the B&B you see now!

And what about me? Well, along with being Alma’s husband, business partner and biggest fan, I now have my own vineyard so really we’re working on two dreams at once!