Lance and I are very much looking forward to your visit and we are happy to share the beautiful wilderness and our home with friends and family. We’re way casual out here, as you might imagine. We have laundry facilities, beach towels, and lazy days. Books, projects and laid-back attitudes are all good to bring; but leave your watch at home! There are adult coloring books, games, yoga (and movie) DVDs, nearby hiking trails, meditations we do in the screened-in porch and 2 big, bodacious telescopes. But more about that in the Local Adventures section here: http://www.visitdebi.com/local-adventures/ .
I will send you an email about a week or so before you arrive to answer any questions and understand any dietary needs. If you are coming for more than a few days, Lance and I appreciate your understanding that this is our home, not a B&B.
For much-appreciated longer visitors:
- after scooping you up at the airport, first or second stop will be a food store (or the following are recommendations if you’re driving out on your own) so that we can all provide food for each other. Provisioning stop will be either The Good Food Store (a similar aesthetic to Whole Foods, but a non-profit organization) at 1600 S 3rd Street W, or for more of a King Soopers vibe (and a bit more convenient to the highway), the stop would be the Fresh Market at 800 W Broadway. Best beer selection is at the Orange Street Food Farm, but there is beer everywhere (gas stations particularly).
- we are all about sharing liquor, cooking and salad oil and vinegars, butter, sugar, condiments, pancake mix, spices and lettuces (or whatever might be ripe and ready to bring in from the garden!). We have toiletries in all of the bathrooms – and the outdoor shower – and strongly discourage the use of a hair dryer, due to the drain on the power grid (although summertime is not so bad). We have towels and linens, of course, along with spare headlamps. Plenty of sunscreen and bug repellant, extra water bottles, day packs, fanny packs, headlamps and hats.
- If you enjoy beer and/or wine, and plenty of it, in Montana, you can scoop up your favorites right in the grocery store.
For those fishermen/women in the group, the first stop will be for a license. Let’s try and remember that before we head out to the wilderness.
I think that about covers it. The rest we can share in emails. Can’t wait to see you!
What To Bring:
water shoes (keens, tevas or a pair of old tennis shoes)
sturdy outdoor shoes for hiking, tromping around the property or just protecting tootsies (good tennis shoes are fine)
a sense of humor
a good book or two
comfy clothes for the outdoors and potential walks through a bit of underbrush
warm jacket or light fleece for cool evenings
bathing suit, plus the usual for hanging outdoors and donking around
women are welcome to borrow from me anything I’m not wearing
Remember!
there is limited data service, so please be prepared to sit in a rocking chair, read a great book, play a game, nap in the windowseat or engage in scintillating conversation. enough of that at home? sit by a running creek, look for the bald eagles, a rafter to turkeys on the driveway or a moose walking by…but don’t worry, important texts and emails are easy to come by in between all the fun.