WINE COUNTRY SPAS OF CALIFORNIA

About the Book

In this Wine Country edition of Spas of California Laurel Cook gives readers the best of two worlds: her personal experience of selected spas located in Sonoma and Napa Valleys next to lists of local wineries (and Web addresses) within driving distance of each spa region.

Her "Winery Notes" offer intriguing tidbits about the wineries, telling you where you can:

view the vineyards from an aerial tramway

tour a wine cave

attend jazz concerts and art exhibits

play bocce ball

stomp grapes (at "Crush" time)

enjoy a picnic in the vineyards

Traveling with children? After luxurious excursions into the world of mineral water, mud, hot stone massage and herbal wraps, how about sleeping with giraffes at Safari West in Calistoga? Going to Traintown in Sonoma? Watching "El Machino" make tortillas out of dollops of masa at Chevy's in Santa Rosa?

Those familiar with Cook's spa guidebooks will recognize her standbys from industry experts: How to Receive a Massage, How to Evaluate a Massage Practitioner, Massage for Seniors and more.

About the Author

Laurel Cook has published four guidebooks to spas in California and lives in wine country where she does business as ?A Way with Words.? A member of the Healdsburg Literary Guild, she is working on a memoir inspired by the turn-of-the-century farmhouse she bought in 1996.