(I posted this on Facebook on October 1, but neglected to copy it over to my blog until now.)<\/p>\r\n
I\u2019m post-flight quarantining in an Airbnb in Forest Park. So far, I like it.<\/p>\r\n
[Edited to clarify: I\u2019m not sick, I\u2019m just isolating for a couple days after my flight.]<\/p>\r\n
One of the things I like best about it is the documentation. All through the place, there are 4\"x6\" (or so) cards with relevant instructions and info. Where to park, how to operate the pocket door of a bedroom, what the Wi-Fi password is, various kitchen things. Good documentation, mostly physically located right where you need it. Pleasing.<\/p>\r\n
There\u2019s also an instruction card about how to operate the 1950s-looking Bluetooth record player\u2014there are two or three dozen LPs in a crate next to it.<\/p>\r\n
The other thing I like best about it is the second bedroom. It\u2019s a smallish room with a smallish bed (with a trundle bed under it) with navy sheets and a navy-and-white-striped bed-cover, and dark curtains, and somehow it just feels really cozy. Comfortingly enclosed. Last night I thought about sleeping in the master bedroom (which has a larger bed with colorful orange flowers on the bedspread), but the smaller space was just what I needed.<\/p>\r\n
Next to the bed, there\u2019s an info card that says: \u201cThere is a second bed under this one. We suggest rock\/paper\/scissors to decide who gets it.\u201d :)<\/p>\r\n
The only thing I don\u2019t<\/em> like about the place is that the floors are a little creaky. Which wouldn\u2019t be a big deal, but it\u2019s on the second floor of a house (the hosts live downstairs), and I\u2019m always a little tense when there are downstairs neighbors (because I\u2019ve lived in a place with upstairs neighbors, and I suspect that they didn\u2019t realize how loud they were when they did things like walk around). And I\u2019m probably likely to be up later than the hosts are. Though they\u2019re theatre people, so maybe not. (No need to tell me that this isn\u2019t a problem\u2014my reactions aren\u2019t necessarily rational. I have various anxiety issues around making too much noise and waking people up.)<\/p>\r\n I somehow managed to pack the stem of my electric toothbrush but not the brush part, but fortunately for me the Airbnb provided a couple of spare toothbrushes.<\/p>\r\n The decor is mildly quirky, and some of it is mildly retro. For example, the microwave is a Nostalgia Electrics RetroWave.<\/p>\r\n The Wi-Fi seems slightly flakey, but that may just be my computer being slow.<\/p>\r\n Overall, a nice place, and a pleasant refuge in which to spend a quarantine.<\/p>\r\n
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