Pandemic Reflections Archives - Stanford Inn, Restaurant & Spa

Pandemic Reflections: Change Your Mind

This past year and a half gave us an opportunity to open to nature, attending to movement and changes with the seasons that we had failed to notice when [...]

Christine Gustafson2021-10-28T16:07:38-07:00September 3rd, 2021|

Pandemic Reflections: The Vaccine Decisions that Allow Us to Open

A Brief Introduction... We recently announced that we were reopening Ravens for indoor dining to vaccinated diners, after considerable thought. We were thanked and we were attacked. We found [...]

Christine Gustafson2021-10-23T15:50:59-07:00April 28th, 2021|

Personal Growth: This time reminds us that spring and beauty reside here

"Remember your partner's eyes when you first recognized yourself in them. Remember that energy, that joy" This year many couples downsized or postponed weddings or opted for a simple, [...]

Christine Gustafson2021-10-23T22:27:29-07:00April 6th, 2021|

Pandemic Reflections: Lean into Art with Joan Stanford

The pandemic has been disorienting – every day is weird but rarely stimulating and for most, not satisfactory at all. Tapping into creativity is a great way to step [...]

Christine Gustafson2021-10-23T21:12:53-07:00March 4th, 2021|

Mendocino sits atop beautiful ocean bluffs surrounded on three sides by Mendocino Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The bluffs comprise the Mendocino Headlands and offer walking trails that afford incredible views of the ocean and the lovingly restored 1850’s New England style Victorians which now house restaurants, specialty shops, galleries and provide lodging for Mendocino artists.

The Mendocino Art Center serves area artists as well as artists throughout the United States. All this is the nature of Mendocino, located about 150 miles north of San Francisco on Highway 1.

Besides the natural beauty, visitors to Mendocino will find a variety of things to see and do.

Hikers and mountain bikers enjoy bluff-top excursions to view seabirds, the seasonal gray whale migration and spring wildflowers. Nearby Big River Beach is ideal for family picnics and Big River is an ecological treasure which is easily explored by canoe or kayak which can be rented at Catch A Canoe & Bicycles, too! Montgomery Woods up Comptche Ukiah Road offers virgin redwood groves with the tallest living tree in the world.Redwoods and Douglas Firs dominate the Russian Gulch State Park as well as other nearby State Parks including Van Damme and Hendy Woods. Many of these parks allow dogs on their trails. And at MacKerricher State Park Lari Shea offer horseback riding along the beach.

Mendocino is an ideal destination for LGBTQIA+ travelers and the Stanford Inn & resort provides welcoming lodging, massage and plant-based dining. Mendocino is truly a special destination – it is the “wine country coast” with Anderson Valley wineries within only twenty minutes drive and Sonoma’s fine wineries just an hour south.