“My goal with everything I do is to get people to try something new,” says author, travel writer, and culinary journalist Michael Cervin. “People miss out when they become less adventurous. The whole world opens up to you when you’re willing to try new things.”
Michael has written nine books so far, five of which are travel books about Santa Barbara, including the cheeky yet informative Santa Barbara Know It All. “I love people making discoveries like the Frog Wall,” he says about his insider perspective of Santa Barbara.
But his appreciation is much more broad. “It’s hard to find what’s wrong with this place,” he says. “There’s a great sense of livability here, and we have views of the beach every where you go. It’s great to live in a place where people are envious of where we live. I go all over the world and everybody knows Santa Barbara.”