Cohousing-L Mailing List: Register now for first 2008 Northern California Cohousing Tour, Feb. 2nd

[Joani Blank (joani]

Dear friends,

We are pleased to announce that the first California tour of 2008 
will take place on Saturday, February 2, from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. in 
the East Bay, just across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco.

We have a wonderful variety of cohousing communities in this area, 
six of which we will visit on our day-long bus tour. SWAN'S MARKET 
Cohousing (where the tour originates and ends), the most urban 
cohousing community in the U. S, was constructed inside the existing 
walls of an historic market hall. PLEASANT HILL Cohousing is classic 
new-built Danish-style cohousing. DOYLE STREET Cohousing in 
Emeryville, the second cohousing community to be established in North 
America (1992), is a conversion of an elderly industrial building. 
TEMESCAL CREEK Cohousing is a prime example of retrofit cohousing 
with five existing duplexes clustered around a charming new-built 
common house. The nearby TEMESCAL COMMONS is another in-fill project 
with a renovated farmhouse and barn surrounded by three new 
buildings. And BERKELEY Cohousing is an eclectic mix....of old, brand 
new and renovated residences with the coziest common house in the country.

The cost of this tour is $95.00 per person. A boxed lunch and lots 
and lots of information about each community will be included. Your 
tour guide will be the inimitable Eris Weaver, a founding member of 
Frog Song Cohousing in Cotati. You may address questions to 
tours [at] cohousing.org or feel free to call Coho/US Tours Coordinator 
Joani Blank at 510-834-7399. To register online with your credit or 
debit card, click here http://www.cohousing.org/tours.aspx

Additional 2008 California tours will be held on May 3 (including 
three communities in Sonoma County), August 9 (East Bay Only), and 
October 25 (including two communities in Davis and one in 
Sacramento). For itineraries and to register for those tours, click 
here http://www.cohousing.org/tours.aspx

In community,

Joani Blank
Tours Coordinator
Cohousing Association of the United States