Here's the thing, people. You may be thinking, "seems nice, but...a basement apartment?" What you don't know is that, first, this is the most thoughtfully appointed basement apartment you've ever seen, and second, that Ray and Marcia are two of the most sterling human beings you'll ever meet. I don't write this lightly. They're immensely kind and gracious people whose life philosophy can be summed up as the following: there is no "should." There's no way in which you "should" be anyone other than who you are in the moment, and that's the spirit in which they received us from the moment we stepped inside their home. If you want to engage in deep and intimate conversations over wine about life, love, and wild roadtrips across the badlands, they're game. If you want to never engage with them and be a hermit holed up with your laptop screen, they will respect your boundaries. The space itself has everything you need with brand new appliances. Marcia and Ray are both technical writers by trade and Marcia wrote documentation for EVERYTHING in the space, down to the remote control for the air conditioning, it's kinda awesome. We've been to Portland several times and their neighborhood, Alameda, is by far our favorite. It's like living inside a fairy-tale garden. The bed is in fact a king-sized bed, the shower water pressure is strong, the wifi is rock-solid, and they even have proper workstations with task chairs and many outlets (ideal setup for digital nomads). We're looking forward to our next stay here :-)