If you’re spending any time this weekend dreaming about where you can travel in the future, bookmark my last post or this one to start planning a stay at what is now one of my favorite properties. Tucked into more than five acres, just a few blocks off the main square of the town of Sonoma, that feel more intimate than that - is just 64 rooms, each different from every other, making up private estate turned luxe yet low-key hotel and spa macarthurplace. I showed the exterior of one of the buildings and a portion of the grounds in my last post. This is the great room where you’ll start your stay checking in at an appropriate distance from staff with a chic nod to safety, and visible as well as invisible cleanliness very much in place everywhere you look. I was impressed by how much things have changed for the safety of all of us yet nothing here screams “travel in the age of COVID.” It is historical elegance with a side of California laid-back cool; the result of a $25 million renovatio...