Cottage Grove Inn

... slate and mauve, and if it weren't for the patches of dirty gray glaciers, would have reminded me more of a mouse. We stopped in Cottage Grove for gas. This where Andy Johnson's folks lived for a time. The young man who pumped my gas (yes, they still ...

... together, stopped at Starbucks, and got on the road, it was 9:00. At about 10:45, we stopped at a convenience store in Cottage Grove for a restroom break and some snacks. At about 11:15, we took the exit for Highway 38 to Reedsport and headed for the ...

... of our barbecued dinner promises juicy rewards. Our lodgings here carry all of the rustic charms of fairytale chalets.  Cottage Inn of Tahoe City boasts seven or eight cedar-thatched cabins clustered in convivial repose under towering pines.  ...

... a little Italian. Italians, I should explain, drive like this all the time. Pergoletta, our "villa", was a self-contained cottage on a hill with its own verandah overlooking the Sieve valley. Below us stretched rolling hills carpeted with green and ...

... entertaining – we especially like the way she said 'creek', which came out as 'crick'! First we went to the Surveyors Cottage where Bev told us about the families travels and then we checked out the old schoolhouse. Lastly we drove across town to ...

... day. We stopped in at the Mad Mongoose for their late Happy Hour. We met a couple from Windsor, Ontario who are renting a local cottage for the month and had a nice visit. At 8:30 AM on the 16th we called MPS again and learned that MAYBE they ...

... bread (which is dried out in the oven rather than baked) from whole sprouted grains. Daniel and Jo had formed a little sprouting cottage industry at the window by the sink. It was really nice to have fresh sprouts with every meal, and I was quite ...

... so far, so annoying. Then they started talking about mushrooms, and not the kind that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall would be using at River Cottage. It turned out they were going to Cocora too, and not to see one of the more beautiful places that I've ...

... garden. Clare's entertainment highlight occurred as we returned rather well watered shall we say, from dinner at Bob's Inn, about 200 yards from our cottage. As we passed a derelict house and overgrown garden there was a lot of rustling as if a wild ...