We spent five nights at Cynthia's and felt right at home. Our room at the front of the house was light and airy (though with some noise from the street since we slept with the windows open). The bed was comfortable, and there was always plenty of hot water for the shower. Other guests were quiet and polite. We were welcome to cook ourselves breakfast if we wanted, but we stuck to making toast and tea and getting out the door. We sat in the living room and visited with Cynthia a couple evenings, and didn't see her at all other days, depending on our schedules.

Neither the house nor the neighborhood was ever elegant, and both show signs of their long, hard-working lives, but the house is a homey and comfortable Craftsman Style brick bungalow, clean and cluttered in the way most real homes are. The neighborhood seems safe and pleasant, and is certainly pedestrian friendly and a bit quirky, with a population mostly a lot younger than we are. Parking is on the street, and sometimes the nearest spot was up the block a ways, but we often were able to walk to our destination and not move the car at all.