This is the most soul-healing, peaceful, relaxing, put-a-smile-back-on-your-face destination imaginable! The entire front of the earth ship is a continuous wall of windows, so the wonderful ambient light and our magnificent mountain scenery fills the entire home. Our mountain retreat is undoubtedly one of the most unique, whimsical, eclectic, magical homes you will ever run across. The inside of our earth ship looks as though it was taken right out of the “The Hobbit.” This is the most soul-healing, peaceful, relaxing, put-a-smile-back-on-your-face destination imaginable! Impossibly Cool Digs... One of the very first “earth ship” homes ever built in New Mexico. What is an earth ship? In a nutshell, an earth ship is a green, eco-friendly, energy efficient home. Essentially, half of the house is “bermed” into the earth in order to retain heat in the winter and cool in the summer. The entire front of the earth ship is a continuous wall of windows, so the wonderful ambient light (day and night) and our magnificent mountain scenery fills the entire home. In other words, it is as though the outside is actually part of the inside. There are no artificial city lights to pollute the night sky, so the stars are downright breathtaking even inside the house! Our mountain retreat is undoubtedly one of the most unique, whimsical, eclectic, magical homes you will ever run across. The inside of our earth ship looks as though it was taken right out of the pages of Tolkien’s, “The Hobbit.” One of the many outstanding features of our house are its three, separate, Bilbo Baggins-style “bed caves.” These amazing bedrooms are cozy, beautifully sculpted, plastered, carpeted works of art. Kids especially love this house! When they first enter the place, they run around wildly laughing and screaming with delight... What really makes this funky little Hobbit house so special is its extremely private physical location and the magical forest that surrounds it. Our Earth Ship is nestled at the end of a MAGNIFICENT, PRIVATE, fir and aspen-lined meadow at an 8,200 foot elevation. Our 'back yard' is hundreds of thousands of acres of pristine National Forest! The only neighbors in view of the home are elk, deer, wild turkey and a million hummingbirds!!! There is a private hiking/mountain bike/horseback/snow shoe trail right out of the back yard that accesses hundreds of miles of abandoned logging roads. The amazing part is that there’s not a soul back there aside from the very-rare hiker or mountain biker. The entire house, 15 acres and thousands of acres of adjacent National Forest Complete privacy for guests. I’ll come by and say hello when you check in 12-15 minutes to downtown Taos. 20 minutes to Angel Fire Ski Basin. 40 minutes to Taos Ski Basin. House is 12-15 minutes east of Taos I regularly plow when the snow begins to fall heavily (usually by November but sometimes in October). You will need four wheel drive, all wheel drive or chains to get up to the house November - March. The house is heated exclusively by passive solar and wood heat in winter months. There is unlimited firewood for the house’s two wood stoves and fireplace. The house is quite comfortable when the sun is shining or the stoves are going. If you don’t keep the stoves going in the night, the house is quite chilly in the morning before you get the stoves going again. The 3 “bed caves” are all interconnected through a series of arches. Only one has a door for privacy. The “master cave” is open to the living room. If you’re booking this with other couples, just know that all the rooms are not completely sound proofed from the surrounding bed caves. Because of the layout, stairs and wood stoves this is not an ideal booking for people with toddlers, elderly or mobility-impaired folks in their party.