Out Of The Fog!

Sandra CH Smith, an American-born child of immigrant parents, says adventuring is in her DNA. Smith spent her teenaged years in San Francisco's North Beach as a Beatnik, hanging out with Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, and other Beat writers. (Thirty years later, Lawrence Ferlinghetti would be a regular guest/crew aboard Smith's hot pink sailboat docked at Pier 39 where she lived aboard it.)

After studying International Economics and Foreign Affairs at George Washington University, Smith earned a Master's degree from Grenoble University, France where she spent two years studying French cheeses, wines and Cognacs. She has enjoyed a zillion careers from art school model, actor and chef, to Constituent Liaison for U.S. Senator Wayne Morse in DC, Arts administrator, realtor, lobbyist for the Arts, director of Santa Cruz CA and Springfield MO Arts Commissions, to journalist. While sailing the Pacific or anchored in faraway places, she hosted her own ocean-going "As The Anchor Drags" radio show for 3+ years, reading on air Stevenson's "Treasure Island" and many other books.

When she sold her boat in Puerto Vallarta, the author ended up ("by magic", she says) in Eureka Springs, AR where she bought the towns' first mayor's Victorian house built in 1886 which would become two elegant B&B suites. Smith then designed and built a Victorian replica next door and spent the next few years playing "restoration monopoly" with four historic cottages along the street to create what would become a 5-star B&B inn. After 26 happy years as an innkeeper, she sold the inn to move with her new husband to Bisbee, Arizona.

Smith says her mantra today is, "I can't change the wind, but I can adjust my sails." (Jimmy Dean and/or Dolly Parton). She apparently got quite good at this at sea and continues to improve the same skill on land.