Driving due east from San Francisco, the multilane highway spills off the Bay Bridge, cutting past Oakland’s office towers and urban neighborhoods before it narrows into the Caldecott Tunnel. And then, the tunnel opens to another world – a panorama of green and yellow hills and weather 10 degrees warmer. Amid those hills sits the town of Orinda.

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