After flying into Boise, it's a 3-hour drive through mountains, along lakes, white rapids, and winding roads.
Vita, my traveling companion and fellow Spinster, wondered if Lin --our host-- had lost his mind. WTF was he doing way out here? And then, we pulled onto the property ( he has 108 acres), we quickly answered our own question. It is magnificent!
Here's the view from the dining room window.
And the dogs.
And one of the horses.
We spent the weekend, eating, talking, drinking wine, lazing around, walking the ranch, feeding the horses, and watching elk at night. We drove into town, McCall, to visit a hat maker (Lin has dozens of cowboy hats)...
...and for dinner with friends at The Shore Lodge.
It even snowed one day! Yep. Snow in what is almost summer!
Lin has made quite a nice life for himself here. Vita, Lin, and I used to work together at an ad agency in NYC. Then Lin sold his fancy Upper East Side apartment and traded in his city life for that of a cowboy out west. Lin is a male Spinster. In other words, a Bachelor. (Notice that an unmarried man is a Bachelor if he's 25 or if he's 55). He's had an array of belles on his arm and even a fiance, but he never married. I think that could change soon, though. It seems that the folks out here are all determined to hook him up. A well-financed, straight, single, man-of-certain-age is like a prize out here. Everywhere, really. So the next time Vita and I venture out here ( and there will definitely be a next time), I wonder if the Three Spinsters in Idaho will be minus one. (Vita and I don't have people clamoring to hook us up. I'm just sayin'.) Lin is making oyster stew for us now, and preparing for a dinner party later this evening. What a fantastic trip this has been. Spinsterlicious, indeed!,
Location:New Meadows, Idaho
