Mountain Valley Home

Most people, when they think of Estes Park, Colorado, think of The Shining. If they don’t know any better, then they just assume that going to the Stanley Hotel means that they’ll be staying in that swanky hotel that they saw in Kubrick’s movie.

Okay, this place is in Oregon, not Colorado.

If one were to stay at the Stanley Hotel, what they would actually get is an overpriced room overlooking the McDonald’s and the Safeway parking lot.

It’s there. You can see it if you squint.

As tempted as we were by the grandeur of the golden arches & the wildlife milling about at Safeway, Olivier & I instead spent a night of our U.S. tour at Mountain Valley Home B&B.

We came in and got comfortable…

…uh, well…really comfortable…

…like, Tony Montana comfortable.

Then we headed down to the Tuscan Wine Room – which I’m sorry that I don’t have pictures of, but it can be seen on their website.

Olivier and I, along with a few of the other guests, all got together for a nice, long wine tasting. We had a variety of very good Colorado wines and I guarantee you that there is no other B&B in Colorado that has anything that comes close to the coolness of this. You could try to disagree with me, but you’d be wrong.

In the morning, our incredible hosts Lynn and Paul fed us a breakfast to die for. Luckily, Paul has some of his recipes up on their site, so no one will actually have to die.

After breakfast, a couple of the neighbors popped over for a quick visit.

So, if you’re ever in the Estes Park area, go hang with these guys.