My friend Shelley and I wanted to take a girls trip to LA. She had used Airbnb, and I hadn’t, so I suggested we stay in one on of those charming houses in Burbank that I would see on the way to the studios. We found one in the pretty, quiet, and safe area near Riverside Drive. The Sanctuary was in the perfect spot, and the pictures of the place sold us. We weather-wary Midwesterners we immediately greeted with bushes of fresh blooming flowers, and lovely California architecture. We walked to a bright and clean house with hardwood floors (and we had taken off our shoes to keep the floors shiny).I took the bedroom with the larger mattress, because I’m tall, and then I discovered the mattress was firm and very comfortable (so comfortable I enjoyed sleeping into the afternoon one Sunday.) Plus that bedroom room was closer to the kitchen and a separate small but sweet bathroom. I already knew Shelley liked taking baths, and I prefer showers, so the main bathroom was perfect since it had a tub and a separate tiled shower stall. It looked like the kitchen had a title update, and although we didn’t spend much time in the kitchen, we enjoyed it for being clean and attractive. Between the kitchen and living was a dining room, but without a table or chair. We did use the living room’s white leather couch and unique coffee table in the morning while eating breakfast and planning the day, then end the day plopped down on that spacious, soft, and comfy couch to relax with the Apple TV, while I streamed local news on my iPad. We didn’t use the fireplace, and controlled with climate with heat and air conditioning. Since I had an iPad, we didn’t use the Apple desktop in the spare room, which also had an exercise bike, which we also didn’t use because we put in a lot of walking. Some mornings I would see Shelley basking in the sun in the backyard serenity garden, and we were both intrigued by small backyard horse stable, although we never had the pleasure of seeing a horse in it. But we ended up seeing, and riding, horses during our trip, and it was nice to see people walking their dogs in the neighborhood. Unlike staying in hotel, where I would “go back to the room” at the end of day, Shelley and I would look forward to “coming home.”