A couple of days in Idyllwild...

We're still in Covid-19 Country.

It still sucks.

But there are ways to escape - and we did.

One day Pat said - "You want to get out of here for a couple of days?"

 

I tried to find something unique but safe but able to social distance and blah blah and I found an adorable little place on air bnb.  I believe they are also on hipcamp

 

The only bummer was check in wasn't until 4 and check out was 10am so our little Wed - Fri vacay wasn't as long as I'd hoped but it was still a lovely escape.

 

The place is called Camp Owl Pine.  This family has a 2 acre-ish piece of land up there and they have their home, a little carriage house turned guest house they rent out, and this Camp Owl Pine.  We met the dude when we checked in then never saw each other again even though we were on the same property.  

 

Our little camper we slept in

The kitchen chill area

They had a couple of hammocks

Shower and toilet.  The toilet was a little weird and a bit too hippie for me (You didn't put the toilet paper in the thing but rather in a bag and throw it away out side.  Eeeek! but it was still cool!

Found out Pat is really good at darts!

 

Such cute little touches

This was around the property:

 We did a little geocaching the 1st day before we checked in!

This one was over by the BrewPub

There's a cache here!

Found it!

After we checked in we had dinner across the street at Cafe Aroma.  It was so nice to just walk across the street for dinner!  The food was delish!  I was really pleasantly surprised at all the places we ate the food was fantastic!

Yummy!  Also...great place to overhear some interesting convos...tee hee!

We wandered the town quite a bit.  It was walking distance from the place.  A good walk at that.  They also had some sort of deer art thing.  You saw all these little painted up deer everywhere.  The town is super cute and very sleepy and chill.

This was in front of someone's house!

We got ice cream after our hike and they even had non dairy options!

Odd combo

The two nights we hung out on the little kitchen deck, drank booze out of our new cups, played Skip-Bo and talked the night away.

Last night of vacay...blurry photo about sums it up

Pat has taken the lead in our ongoing games

Wine in my new Cup!

Beer in his new cup!

Unfortunately even though a lot of places have opened back up the trails we were planning to hike were closed due to the awful fires we've been having.  But the lovely ranger told us that the Nature Center was open for trail hiking and we ended up doing that instead.  It knocked our plan for hiking from two days to one but honestly it was probably better.  We're both pretty out of shape!  We wandered all over the area and did a lot of geocaching of course!  It was just gorgeous and a wonderful morning of hiking around.  

 

 

 

Geocacher Hikers!

Can ya see it?

Loved the Manzita trees!

I always try to get a non-selfie of us!

 That night we had dinner at the Brew Pub

It was so pretty and outdoors and they had everyone spaced out.  They even took temps before you came in so we felt very comfortable.  I loved it.  It reminded me of the place we hit up in Mammoth where you're enjoying your dinner and drinks and looking out into the gorgeous nature!

It was so nice to get away even for the little amount of time we did.  We got to check out the area and really dig it.  The place we stayed was really cute.  I'm not much of a camper but this I could handle.  We'll be back I'm sure!  

How cute are we?

I love getaways.  We are really in some awful times right now and I'm so grateful we still have the opportunity to do things like this.  Pat and I had a really great time and I love when we can spend time like this together.