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I stayed in a tree house resort along the California-Oregon border, my first vacation in 11 months
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The Out n About Treehouse Treesort is a network of narrow wooden suspension bridges connected by standalone platforms and tree-borne cabins with mossy roofs.Freda Moon/SFGATE
Two flights up the shaking metal staircase, I felt a stab of regret. What had I gotten us into this time, I thought, as my five-year-old’s hand tightened and her steady stream of commentary went uncharacteristically quiet. Was she thinking what I was thinking? “What kind of idiot imagines sleeping 40 feet above the ground, in a closet-sized tree house, on a near freezing February night, with two small kids, will be fun?”
know you can t be responsible for my bad acts. that s right. we don t have a bar here, but if you want to drink you are? i am a vodka and lemonade guy. well, then off bar here. no. yeah, you can have some of that. and i ll get some more. where are these prepared, typically? my house. his house. that s a proper welcome. yeah. this is a proper map. yeah, yes. where are we right now on the map? we are in here. okay. uh-huh. and you re going to be staying up here. imagine industry. we have a whole island here. it started actually when they try to get us they exploited us to tear these down. who s they? the county. michael built his first tree house, the peacock perch back in 1990. two years later, the power s that be of josephine county issued a shutdown notice and ordered him to stop letting the public into his lofty lodging,
in the treeshsing tree, and if you get too drunk and, you know you can t be responsible for my bad acts. that s right. we don t have a bar here, but if you want to drink you are? i am a vodka and lemonade guy. well, then off bar here. no. yeah, you can have some of that. and i ll get some more. where are these prepared, typically? my house. his house. that s a proper welcome. yeah. this is a proper map. yeah, yes. where are we right now on the map? we are in here. okay. uh-huh. and you re going to be staying up here. manage industry? majesty. we have a whole island here. it started actually when they try to get us they exploited us to tear these down. who s they? the county. michael built his first tree house, the peacock perch back in 1990. two years later, the power s that be of josephine county