“Come, you who are blessed by theLord,”he said. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”

Genesis 24:31

The past few weeks have seen an overwhelm of interesting content for me to publish. This long hot summer has involved celebrations, travel, reunions, family, mountains, waterfalls, vacationing, and returning the grandchildren to their new home in Orlando.

One huge positive has come from our first ever Airbnb experience. So I’m going to write this post as kind of an informal, anecdotal review.

Not a hotel room!

I have always felt that hotel rooms are lacking. Especially when traveling with children. They tend to be so impersonal and restrictive. So this time, knowing we had several nights in the mountains, I did some research on what it might look like to rent a house.

First, I was…