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POPLAR HOLLOW

Just down from the vineyard on a western slope shaded by majestic poplars, descending into a cool hollow through which a creek meanders over small shale waterfalls.  Imagine relaxing in the redwood hot tub heated by your snorkel stove, and then watching the stars under the small greenhouse living space.

THE UNIT PLAN                                                                                        ENLARGED  UNIT

COMPACT, COZY, RUSTIC, SIMPLE, ELEGANT.

 Here you go.  A mobile cabin, a LOG cabin on wheels, delivered to Poplar Hollow?  I understand I can have this one from Complete Homes in Glouster Ohio for $18K.  Hmm....

How many folks would rend this for a weekend at $350 for a weekend's stay?  Right there on the edge of the Hollow, with the vineyard up above them to their back?  Well...

  I met Wulf Reinecke here at 'Complete Homes' in Glouster, Ohio, eating lunch with 'Complete's'  staff.  I was asking about the construction of the 'log home', specifically insulation qualities.  Wulf spoke in defense of the construction of the unit...the pine used for the walls has the most 'open' cell structure of any wood available for this cabin-on-wheels, and the best insulation of any wood used likewise in a log cabin design. 

Wulf had a bit of an accent, and when I asked him about it, others piped in (he's quite modest about himself...) that he was the EAST German kayak champion OF THE WORLD in 1971.  AMAZING!!  So, probing further, he said he'd come to the US in 1981...he'd defected from the German Socialist Worker's Paradise to come to, of all places, "Appalachia", in order to find liberty and his own bit of the American Dream. 

Like I say, Our Place here in Southeastern Ohio is FULL of amazing, accomplished People...