Home Is Where I Want To Be

Tina Weymouth, Ednah Holt, Lynn Mabry, David Byrne, and Alex Weir in “Stop Making Sense”. Image: A24

A triumphant return home to Mountain View, California from our first enormously memorable European motorcycle trip was barely a week old when we were told the lease on the address we’ve called home for nearly 17 years wouldn’t be renewed. This is where we raised two dynamic teenagers; entertained friends and family from around the world; cultivated a fine array of flowers, plants and trees; enjoyed flybys from hummingbirds; took care of countless dogs; and garaged nearly 30 motorcycles on a rotating basis.

This is the 1947 peach orchard caretaker’s cottage with a funky layout that looked like a double-wide upon first inspection in late November 2006 – when we desperately needed to find a place of our own after sharing a tiny log cabin in the Santa Cruz Mountains between Page Mill Road and Alice’s Restaurant on Skyline Boulevard – slowly becoming our own version of a Silicon Valley mansion.