The Healdsburg Map: A Thank You Speech

Thank you Circe Sher of Hotel Healdsburg for initiating the idea of creating a map which would showcase our local diversity.

Thank you Tod Brilliant of many diverse and creative projects, one of them being: The Creative Job Agency.

Thank you Justice Brilliant for your 5-year-old perspective. It was so obvious!

Thank you Richard Miller of Calyx Design for working with me PATIENTLY to create the printed version.

Thank you Stephen Boyle of StephenBoylePhotography.com for your support, attention to too many details, and your fabulous photo editing skills.

A specific shout out to Mitch Lewis of ClimbingAndRunning.com for his words of encouragement around the end of October, “Don’t give up now. Imagine what you’ll feel like when you see somebody walking down the street using the map.”

Thank you to Andrew at ChromaGraphics for pushing us up in the 2008 printing queue. And for your personal delivery services.

And finally, thank you local merchants of Healdsburg for sponsoring the first edition of this project.

Happy New Year Healdsburg. Let’s get going!

Healdsburg: THE MAP

Well, it’s here! It’s December 31st. I’m on my way to a New Year’s Party, but I wanted to post that The Healdsburg Map is finally here!  I will be distributing them to my sponsors early next week.

We had a Map Release party at the Hotel Healdsburg last Monday.  Thank you everybody for coming. We had a fabulous after party at Mateo’s last Missing Link dinner of 2008.  THEN, believe it or not, we continued to the B&B to finish up the evening.

I have a few stories I’d like to post on creating the map and I am working to get  HealdsburgMap.com online (a current work-in-progress) and  alas, I have no more time this evening.  Now that the MAP is created and printed and that’s one big thing off my list.  On to my next project:  A map of Small Wineries of Sonoma County.

Here’s to 2009 Healdsburg. Let’s get it started!