There have only been a few times when I have stayed at airbnbs that really were "experiences" more than mere places to stay. Randy's "Cozy Oak Cottage" in Asheville, NC moves to the top of that short list right next to a cabin at the edge of the jungle in Costa Rica. For all intents and purposes my partner Jennifer and I felt like we began every day on a porch, enveloped in trees, on the edge of a rain forest in North Carolina. I'll leave it to the pictures and descriptions of other guests to convey the physical details of the place. I'll instead share that in a period of big transition in our lives Randy's place, and his spirit of hospitality, could not have been dreamed up any better. Coffee on the porch in the morning. Fellowship with the gnomes in the patio garden. Going to sleep to the sound of rain on the porch roof just outside the bedroom. These are a few of my favorite things. Grateful.