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We are dear friends, neighbors, and hosts of the Alegria Del Mar. We are here to provide you with a wonderful experience while staying at the Alegria Del Mar in Trinidad, CA. The beautiful home owner by Mark and Maya Sommer. Father and daughter Mark and Maya Sommer have lived in Alegria, their family home, since 1995, when Mark and his wife built it with a small crew. By the time she was fourteen Maya had visited five continents, staying with Mayan Indians in Guatemala at age 2, traveling to Tunisia and Northern Italy at 5, riding elephants and floating down remote rivers in Laos at 11 and riding camels in Burkina Faso at 14. Mark is an explorer, storyteller, filmmaker, author and public media journalist. Until his retirement in 2012, he was host and executive producer of an award-winning, internationally syndicated weekly radio program, A World of Possibilities, and a globally syndicated columnist for Inter Press Service in Rome. He has authored three books and hundreds of articles in major newspapers worldwide. From the seventies to the nineties, Mark and his wife built and maintained a self-reliant organic homestead they constructed from the ground up in the deep woods of Northern California. Living an hour's drive from their mailbox and seven miles from the nearest phone line, they raised most of their food and generated electric power from solar panels and a waterwheel. Traveling the world for both work and pleasures, Mark has explored both indigenous and advanced cultures. In the course of his travels he has become interested in the extraordinary capacity of some individuals and communities -- often those with few material advantages -- to turn adversity to their advantage and tragedy into opportunity and ultimately a gift. This quality of resilience is the theme of his current work. His website, Hearts Broken Open features multimedia stories of personal, social and natural resilience. Mark currently divides his time between Trinidad and the San Francisco Bay Area, where he celebrates the Bay Area's vibrant mix of diverse cultures and urban nature on a second website, I Found My Heart in San Francisco, a multimedia love letter to Northern California.