What’s the best way to be in Colorado, and do work every day in Los Angeles? Stay at Thad’s place in Topanga Canyon. It’s about thirty-minute drive through a beautiful canyon, up the California coastline, which made me wish the drive was longer. And when you get done your in a cozy two split level guest house listening to the sounds of birds, and looking out at California oak trees and wild sage bushes.

The cottage is split level, with a roomy kitchen and dining room upstairs, that has a little den with a TV, and a day bed if you need two bedrooms. The downstairs area connects with either a spiral staircase, or the wrap deck that runs around the outside. The bedroom if large, as is the bath.

The guest house is very complete with every kind of kitchen cookware and utensils you could want, and linens, and nice little touches like a small library, and art books to read. He made the getting there and being there a pleasure. This is one of those Airbnb stays that makes me want to write an awful review so the place will be available when I want it to be. But I didn’t.