Travel writer and photographer Yvonne Michie Horn makes her home in Sonoma County, where her family has lived for three generations. She's written for Bon Appetit, Golf Digest, Quarterly Review of Wines, and metropolitan newspapers across the United States, including the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. She's won two Lowell Thomas Awards (considered the "Oscar" of travel writing); is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers, Bay Area Travel Writers, and Garden Communicators International; and maintains two websites, WineryWeddingGuide.com and TheTravelingGardener.com.