Luisa Heymann

Luisa Heymann grew up in Washington, DC, and nearby Bethesda, Maryland, but hit the road in her 20s, eventually visiting and occasionally working in 46 states and 43 countries. Over the years, she’s worked at running an ice cream parlor in Vieques, Puerto Rico, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica, and as the advertising director for Kitchen Bazaar gourmet housewares stores. Hobbies include snorkeling somewhere warm whenever possible, singing in the Napa Valley Community Chorus, teaching aqua aerobics off and on for 20+ years, and 10 years as part of a hot air balloon crew. Currently, Luisa and her husband John live near Yountville, California, in an area they call “rural lite” (well & septic but only eight minutes to Whole Foods) with a couple of rescue dogs who get them out walking every day, rain or shine (or wildfires, ugh)