The Future of Camping

For our annual Valentine's Day camping adventure this year, Derek and I headed north of Calistoga for a weekend full of hot springs, sweaty saunas, relaxing massages and hours of yoga. It was the kind of place that made you embarrassed that you'd ever bought anything with a name brand or professed to like refined sugar.

We stayed in this weirdly futuristic looking dome tent cabin in the middle of the woods.



There was a little disconnect, because when you walk inside the dome tent of the future, the first thing you see is a headboard of the 90's.


It still made for a perfect spot to nap.




Happy Valentine's Day!

re: Love Birds

Everyone always says that you hit a certain point in your life that makes you want to settle down and make a little home. They call it "nesting" but I'm pretty sure we reinvented the term this weekend.

In honor of Valentines Day, Derek and I headed down to Big Sur to do a little camping.

Not just any camping - we journeyed to Treebones Resort to stay in the Human Nest.




The Nest is basically a big treehouse shaped out of big sticks to look like a nest - so you get this semi-protected, open-air camping experience with the most incredible view of the ocean. We slept perched in the tree like little birds, and journeyed out during the day for kayaking, near-death encounters with submerged Elephant Seals, hiking and tasty meals.






Basically, if nesting always looks like that, count me in.



Happy Valentines Day!

(full set of photos posted here, including some candids of Elephant Seals amorous overtures)