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Our stay in a yurt!

Yurt - view of treebone yurtAs part of our big California trip this summer, we stayed in a luxury yurt at Treebones Resort in Big Sur. The resort is a perfect stop if you are doing the Highway 1 tour from LA to San Francisco.

I've wanted to stay there since I read about the polished wood-floored yurts in Sunset Magazine. The resort is popular and space books up quickly, so quickly I didn't get my act together soon enough to book for the summer. Luckily the Current Availability page is kept religiously up-to-date and I checked daily until I found a cancellation that suited us.

My weekend in Austin – Mexican street corn, BBQ, spas and NO KIDS

A good friend of mine lives in Austin, Texas. Dana was my roommate when I first moved to the UK in 1989. She opened the door to the BUNAC hostel where I was staying. I was fresh out of uni and a hostel was the only place in London I …