I loved it a lot and I'll be back for sure !! It was a real home away from home !!

ROOM - The mattress for the bunk bed was on the floor and I was spared the climb, which at almost 79, I really didn't want in the middle of the night. I regularly sleep on a platform bed, which is a mattress on a horizontal dresser, so I was right at home. And the flannel sheets and cozy comforter made my bed really snug. A dresser, a closet, a very small table for my computer and a chair, outlets for everything. All needs met. No frills. Perfect. One small drawback - traffic noise -bring good earplugs, which I did, - and I slept quite soundly. Right next to the bedroom is the pleasant, sunny living room, which I mainly had to myself, and in which I sat with my computer some mornings checking email. Down a short hallway were the other two bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom. This layout gave my room and the adjacent living room the feel of a private unit. The living room accommodations provided the frills that the bedroom didn't have.

APARTMENT- A very mellow blend of Victorian and Mexican. High button shoes next to Mexican art and aboriginal photos. Plants of all sizes everywhere, decorative bird's nests and seashells bring the natural world close. And all without disturbing it's Victorian identity. Mexican style terra cotta and off white kitchen with lacy multicolored ceiling banners. Once again - all needs met - with room in frig and pantry and all equipment available - which I didn't use as I only had breakfast there. There's one clean, clean bathroom, but the schedules were so different that there was no problem whatsoever.

NANCY - I now call her "friend". We found common ground, we "discussed" things, often with a different point of view, but with candor, nonetheless. I'm an assimilated Jewish "Bubbi" and an ancient native NYer from Brooklyn. Nancy's certainly not my peer, nor do we have common roots, yet we found so much to share and so much to identify with. Nancy knows lots of history, and walking the Mission with her one gets it. She and I danced salsa and she showed me samba. She told me she thought I had rhythm. Nancy has a deeply peaceful and serene nature, a sense of which permeates her home. I cannot think of a single reasonable request that I might have made of her that she would not have met, but in fact I had none, because all my needs had already been anticipated. l found her to be very open, warm, even tempered, really smart and congenial. And, like me, she's an independent woman. I like and admire her a lot. Being in her place, in her space, connecting, discussing, having fun dancing the salsa and learning some samba, increased the joy of this already joyful trip for me and made it really memorable.