The Sylvia Beach Hotel

     I'm over here in Oregon. My dad needed a haircut, so my mom and brothers and I started wandering around the Nye Beach area. It is incredible. I live in - I will state my opinion frankly - a sucky little town in Idaho with way too many people and not enough space. It smells like manure. There is no character to the area. It's just dry and ugly. Nye beach is completely the opposite. It's right on the ocean so of course its amazing, but the buildings have character and histories. They don't all come out of the same basic construction catalog with pre-approved colors and cheap building material. They look like people live there, real people... that do stuff. It's amazing!
     And then there's the Sylvia Beach Hotel: a stay-away house just for readers and writers. It's marvelous. Each room is themed after a different famous writer. Jules Verne, Dr Seuss, Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, And they're so spot-on in design, immaculately detailed. One room had the most beautiful old typewriter. Shakespeare's room had a four poster bed, a throne, a beautiful old-style feeling to it. All of the rooms are amazing. It's literally the most perfect writers retreat.
     Plus, there's no TVs, no wifi, no distractions. I'm planning on buying out the owner one day... after I spend a few months living there and hopping from room to room, tasting each one.
     The hotel is also connected to the Tables of Content Restaurant, where they seat you with strangers and have you play Two Truths and a Lie with your tablemates.
     So ya, basically the best place to get away and write.

Jules Verne room

Earnest Hemmingway room

JK Rowling room

Dr Seuss room