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e Brewery Gulch Inn NOT JUST YOUR EVERYDAY STOP IN THE ROAD By Bob Page As one who knows something about 2nd, or even 3rd chapters in life, what great fun it was to catch up with Guy Pacurar, a son of Del Mar, who gave up the corporate whirlwind to run, manage and own one of Mendocino’s most stunning B & Bs. The Brewery Gulch Inn is not your everyday stop in the road. Nor is Mendocino. Pacurar’s jump from the world of suits and ties to innkeeper was inspired by his daughter, Taylor, who had made the leap to Sonoma County wine country a few years earlier. She is the events coordinator for Arista Winery in Healdsburg. “She got tired of me critiquing places where we stayed when we traveled and told me to go buy my own place instead
of always telling her how I would do something differently.” Pacurar said he had always wanted to own an inn ever since staying at a small place in Palm Springs and watching the owners make everyone feel like a part of an extended family. He said growing up in California he had always imagined living in the snow. He holds degrees in communications and international relations from the University of Southern California. He was president of Pacific Intercultural Exchange, an international high school exchange program, before retiring in 2008. So, he began his search in New England, visiting inns in the north woods of Maine, and Waitsfield and West Dover,
The Brewery Gulch Inn from the air.
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Vt. Not finding one there that appealed to him with the right terms, he scooted off the Outer Banks of North Carolina. After striking out there, he was off to Taos in New Mexico. The San Geronimo Inn held some appeal but not enough to close a deal. He said he could have closed a deal in Waitsfield and came close in Taos and Palm Springs but both would have required extensive renovations. After a year on the road, he was back home in Del Mar, not discouraged but determined to find the right one. He turned his computer to LoopNet, an Internet site that lists commercial properties for sale, and on the screen up popped the Brewery Gulch for sale.