When you stay AirBnb (as opposed to a hotel ), you get to pretend you live there - experience a few days as a regular in the neighborhood. This remote location accomplishes that. *This* is what it's like to live in a place where enormous, awe-inspiring redwood trees are just part of your yard and neighborhood, which happens to be in the mountains. I was happy.
Some thoughtful touches:
My first night, as soon as it was dark, I realized I didn't want to drive to get food, not in a rental car on unfamiliar, twisting, mountain roads. No problem - the hosts had prepared for a reluctant-to-travel guest. There were enough eggs, butter, and even fresh garlic to make an omelete with my snack food: Triskets and cheese. (Sauteed in garlic, I pretended the Triskets were crunchy hashbrowns). They also left bananas, sparkling water, coffee, etc. everything to tide me over until I got out.
* Pam invited me on her morning and evening walks. Very welcoming.
* Greg got me a fan upon my request and while we chatted in the driveway, he showed me he had just purchased a flat of strawberries. He gave me a pint of fat gorgeous berries, the perfection of ripeness! I kept trying to refuse them but he insisted. Perhaps my favorite moment on this trip was sitting on a fallen redwood eating fresh strawberries.
* Place is recently remodeled. It's pretty and clean!
* Hosts live directly above, which means you can hear them waking and moving around, but they don't spend their evenings moving furniture, so it was no big deal. No problems falling asleep at night.
* Very helpful directing me to local trails.
* Uber Eats delivers! There are currently (August, 2018) two restaurants in the delivery zone.
* Barb let me know I could check in early. Now, that's never an expectation as far as I'm concerned - that you can check in early. The stated time is the stated time. So it was a really nice surprise to know I could show up early.
* There are food options literally 4 minutes away. Three minutes probably. If I had looked at Google Maps that first night, I really could have gone somewhere close to either buy food or eat out. But hey--the Trisket omelete was not so bad!
Short but lovely stay.