Marky is a fine host - never intrusive, always helpful and good company (as we found out when asking him to join us for one of our dinners in the house which he graciously did). His Life House (so named because once featured in Life magazine) is spectacular. Our family of two adults and three kids visited for 4 days at the end of a 4 week road trip through much of California. It was the best finish I could have imagined. After all the more or less cramped hotel accomodation, finally a spacious and beautiful house. The house has some nice amenities (a jacuzzi, a BBQ grill, a veranda on three sides, very high ceilings, open space architecture), and its location is very good indeed: it's just a quarter of a mile from the exit of the 280 freeway, half a mile from a nice local shopping mall (with a Safeway, a Starbucks, a CVS and so on), a mile or so from the 280/92 junction, and it takes you 20 minutes or so to each of downtown Palo Alto and Halfmoon Bay, and not much longer to San Francisco (22 miles, depending on traffic there). All the morning fog you have in San Francisco does not seem to concern the Life House but if you want to you can see it from the nearby scenic route 35 ("skyline boulevard"). I definitely recommend the Life House to anybody visiting the Bay area and would always come back.