Noah Wyle

At Home in Central California’s Santa Ynez Valley

needed to be geographically close to Los Angeles just for practical purposes, but I didn’t want to raise my kids in Los Angeles. I was raised in Los Angeles. I’m an Angeleno, and I just wanted something a little bit more rural and smaller and and not fall asleep at the wheel. That kind of radius brought me up to the Santa Ynez Valley.… Once I came down that Highway 154 hill and saw Lake Cachuma and the valley spread out before me, it looked just like Tuscany to me. Then I found this property that just spoke to me. I was way too young to buy — didn’t have enough money to buy it, and didn’t know how to maintain it. I think it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I love being here. Because I work all over the world and I travel so much, it’s really important for me to have a comfortable and anchoring home base. And to be able to come back here and recharge my battery and lock my gate and be with my family and enjoy the animals and the things this valley has to offer, the happier I am, and then I can leave again.