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☆ $3 Million Homes in California
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Angela Serratore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Wine bars, a bakery, a breakfast spot with a train theme, a Whole Foods Market and a Safeway grocery store are all nearby. Driving to Napa or San Francisco takes an hour or more. Size: 2,983 square feetPrice per square foot: $1,004Indoors: A walking path connects the top of the long driveway to one of several patios and the home’s entrance. The front door opens into a foyer with a barrel-vault ceiling and new wide-plank French oak floors. The oak floors continue into a living area with more high ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace flanked by built-in bookshelves.

Organizations: Foods, Safeway Locations: Sebastopol, Freestone, Occidental, Wine, Bodega Bay, Napa, San Francisco, bookshelves

☆ 5 Scenic E.V. Road Trips
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Lauren Sloss | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

travel:California: up the coast, down through wine countryCalifornia is lousy with scenic drives, from its extensive, 840-mile coastline to routes through the magnificent Sierra Nevada. The route is also the focus of a new electric vehicle-centric initiative, with eight new E.V. New Mexico: The High Road to the Enchanted CircleA road trip between Santa Fe and Taos — two standout New Mexico destinations — is a decided win. The route has beautiful scenery, a dose of history and is easily doable in an E.V. planning tool and then hit the 56-mile High Road to Taos, which passes through villages with epic views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Persons: “, ”, Cowing, Martin Ray, Mount, it’s, Worthy, that’s, Butch Cassidy Organizations: Point, Gifford, Forests, Elk Loop, Rockies, New, Sundance Locations: United States, California, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco, Point Reyes, Bodega Bay, Jenner, Mendocino ., Philo, Boonville, Sonoma, Healdsburg, Sebastopol, Petaluma, Washington, Chahalis, Naches, Okanogan, Wenatchee, Mount Rainier, Colorado, Elk, Elk Loop Colorado, Carbondale, Crested, Gunnison, New Mexico, Santa Fe, Taos, —, Cristo, El, Red, Taos Ski Valley

☆ Help! My Tour Got Canceled but Travel Insurance Won’t Pay
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Seth Kugel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The tour organizer canceled the trip, citing health and safety issues, and refunded our money. I had bought my airfare ($1,504) separately, so I assumed my GoReady Pandemic Plus insurance policy would cover it. If travel insurance doesn’t cover this, what does it cover? Khatiba, Sebastopol, Calif.Dear Khatiba,You are forgiven for thinking that the “trip cancellation” portion of your policy would cover, say, trip cancellation. My inbox is flooded with messages from travelers whose similarly reasonable-sounding claims were denied either because of a policy’s fine print or because the documentation process became so mind-bendingly bureaucratic that they simply gave up.

☆ Factbox: Plans for Queen Elizabeth's state funeral on Monday
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Jeff J Mitchell/Pool via REUTERSLONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - World leaders will join Britain's royal family, its political elite and members of the military, judiciary and charitable organisations at the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth on Monday. - The State Gun Carriage is a field gun carriage that has previously been used for the funerals of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI, Winston Churchill, and Lord Louis Mountbatten. - The coffin will be followed by King Charles and members of the royal family. The King's Guard in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace will give a royal salute as the coffin passes Queen Victoria Memorial. - The royal family will travel to Windsor by car.

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