Our wedding will be in the redwood circle at the Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, CA, a mountain community near Santa Cruz. We have reserved lodging, kitchen, and dining facilities for the afternoon of Wednesday, June 16th until the morning of Friday, June 18th. Lodging options range from private rooms with shared bath, to dormitories, to tent camping. Because bedding is not provided, you will need to bring your own bedding or ask us to line up bedding for you if you want to stay at the center. The facilities include a labyrinth, meditation hut, yoga/gathering area, and many hiking trails. If you want information about things to do in the Santa Cruz area, check out the Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council information site.

GETTING THERE:
    BUS: Greyhound goes right to downtown Santa Cruz. We can arrange transportation for you from there, but the Santa Cruz Metro bus service could get you to Ben Lomond. Amtrak also has connecting bus service linking their train service to other bus systems. Once in the SF Bay Area, there is the option of taking BART to San Jose and linking with another system to get to Santa Cruz.
    TRAIN: If you are coming from the south, the best place to debark Amtrak is in Salinas and use their connecting bus service to Santa Cruz or ask us to arrange for you to get picked up. Otherwise, Amtrak has bus connectors to San Jose.

AIR: The closest airport is San Jose (about 1/2 hour drive), but sometimes flights are cheaper to San Francisco (drive time one way about and hour and fifteen minutes). Call Abeja or Tom to arrange transportation from airports.