Top 10 Weird, Unique and Strange AirBnB Stays Across the USA (Under $200)

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Ever wondered how spending a night in a missile bunker or a decommissioned helicopter might spice up your travels? This week, we embark on a journey through some of the most unique, quirky, and photogenic Airbnbs across the USA. From 1980s and 1990s-themed living rooms perfect for your next TikTok video to whimsical stays like a UFO suite in Washington, we promise you'll be inspired to add some fun and creativity to your next getaway. All stays are in USA, and under $200 a night, Listed on AirBnB as of August 25th, 2024

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And they opened it up to locals to say and they
turned it into like a 1990sslash 1980s like living room and
you have a free run.
You know free reign at thesnacks and the store and there's
a couch and you can walk upthrough the store and find a
movie.
Do you love to travel?

(00:26):
Do you love to travel?
Do you love road trips?
Do you love finding hiddentreasures in towns all over the
USA?
Hi, I'm Joshua.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
And I'm Craig.
Welcome to Treasures of OurTown.
It's the podcast that exploresthe unique and charming towns
scattered throughout the UnitedStates.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Guided by our love for location-based games like
geocaching, join us as weventure into some of the
country's most intriguingdestinations, uncovering hidden
gems and local secrets along theway.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
On today's episode, we're not going to towns.
No, we're going to do 10strange, weird, quirky and
unique Airbnbs.
Josh, we all know you love yourAirbnbs, mate, so this is your
idea.
You come up with this and youthought I'm going to do some
research, mate.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yes, I love a good Airbnb, especially an Airbnb
that has a hair dryer in it.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh, it has to have it Fully equipped and the correct
soap as well, not using dishsoap for hand soap, oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, we've experienced some not so great,
not so unique airbnbs, but we'regoing on the positive side and
we're going to talk aboutairbnbs because there's really a
lot of cool things to explore.
It's so fun when you can add alittle bit of I don't know
uniqueness fun to youraccommodations yes, exactly

(01:46):
right, and we're not talkingabout josh, we're not talking
about, just like you know.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh, this one has to have a hairdryer have.
So this, we're talking unique,quirky places that would be best
for, like, photo shoot.
Airbnb's.
Yeah, doing your tiktok?
Airbnb's yes and just to leteveryone know, this is not
sponsored by airbnb in any way.
This is just you and me havinga chat after doing some research
.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
So airbnb would be a fantastic sponsor, however
absolutely absolutely I'll takesome of those uh airbnb I'll
take some airbnb free stayscredits exactly yeah, I didn't
even have to give us cash.
I work for Cheats, credits,credits.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
It costs them nothing for credits.
Anyway, Josh, speaking of goodand bad and everything else as
well, let's get into the delaysand upgrades.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
But we had some fan mail.
Are we going to do the fan mailfirst?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, okay, we can do fan mail.
I didn't even look at the shownotes.
That's my issue.
See, there you go.
Yes, we do have fan mail andwe've said before Josh, we do
get fan mail now through theactual link in the podcast
themselves.
This one was from St George inUtah and they said I hope Joshua
went back and got a refund forthe $2 he paid to wash those
floor mats.
Did he have?

(02:57):
He didn't actually have thefloor mats, so did you get the
$2 back?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
I did not.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
No I did not.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
But when I told that story I did go back and they
gave me a couple of free carwashes, which was actually more
value than the two dollars thatI paid for the mats that a
didn't exist or b were taken orc were in a different timeline,

(03:22):
where I never had floor mats inmy car.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's still.
It's still.
Really.
I'm bemused by it all and yetI'm not even in your shoes.
I'm just thinking about it andthink to myself well, because I
know, if I have, I've got floormats, you see.
So I know I've got floor mats.
I've actually got two floormats.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Are you sure?
Are you sure you have floormats?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
I've decked out my car as a camper, so I know
exactly what's in my car rightnow.
Just saying so, and andspeaking of which, for me that's
going to be leading to myupgrade, josh, because my
upgrade at the moment is my caris booked in, uh, this week to
be fixed, to have a brand newentire engine, rebuilt, engine
placed into Stu that's my car'sname, by the way, is Stu?

(04:07):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
I'm so happy for you.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
That's one of many of my upgrades.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Josh, oh, there's more.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Well, if you haven't known yet, if you just listen to
this podcast alone, then that'sall well and good, but there's
other podcasts out there as well.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
There are.
There are other podcasts thanours.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
There is, there is, and so I'm a co-host here with
you.
I'm a co-host on the Munzeechannel with Rob as well.
I am now Josh, a co-host on theGCPC, the geocaching podcast.
There you go, wow.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
With Scott Burks and Chaz.
So, yeah, this is so.
Yeah, this is like a full-timejob for you.
Podcast host, but no, with nopayment.
It's a wow, this is a bigvolunteer.
Yeah, hobby, make sure you putit on your linkedin.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Podcast host extraordinaire I don't even have
a linkedin mate.
What are you talking about?
So, anyway?
So, yeah, that's my, that's mymain two upgrades.
Uh, for for this week, mate.
What are your upgrades before?

Speaker 1 (05:06):
well, I want to talk about your upgrades a little bit
more.
I saw some pictures, pictures,and you talked about it before.
Not only are you getting a newengine, but you've decked out
the back of you got like akitchenette and you got some
storage and, yeah, this isexciting and you're gonna hit
the road soon, right, you'regoing down to texas, is that
right?
Exactly, exactly.
So I hit the road soon, right,you're going down to Texas, is
that right?

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Exactly exactly.
So I hit the road on the 8th ofSeptember and I'm on the road
for five weeks.
This time I do a round trip allthe way through into Texas for
the big Munzee events in Texasthemselves, and then on the way
back on the eastbound trip, Iactually stop off in Rome,
georgia, for going caching, myfirst and obviously last going

(05:46):
caching event.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
So there you go which is a mega geocaching event, if
you don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
So yeah, there you go .
So that's my trip and, yes, Ihave decked out my car.
There will be a full car runthrough.
What do you call it?
Video Video, yeah, video, butnot tutorial.
What do they call?

Speaker 1 (06:05):
those ones Video.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Video, yeah, video, but not tutorial.
What do they call those ones?
Oh, I can't think of it now.
What's the word?
My brain is fried.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Tour, tour, tour.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's it, yeah, a full car tour of my car coming
out on my other YouTube channel,the Aussie in America one,
because that's been dormant fora little while.
So that needs some love.
And so, yeah, as you said, I'vegot a kitchen.
Now Pull that kitchen out theback.
I've got an actual fridge likea refrigerator in there that's
off, a solar panel now as well,storage bedding.

(06:32):
I've even got a podcast set upand a desk.
Oh my gosh, oh, yes, oh yes.
So there you go.
That's amazing.
Yeah, yeah, well, craig, it'sall good.
That's amazing.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, craig, while you hit theroad in your car this week, can
you believe it?
I'm going somewhere where I'venever gone before.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
What to Australia?

Speaker 1 (06:57):
I haven't gone to Australia but I'd love to
someday.
No, I'm going to Venice, Italy.
What?

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Venice, as in the boats and stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, did I tell you this no.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Have we had this?

Speaker 1 (07:10):
conversation.
No, oh my gosh, you're justfinding out right now.
I love this yeah, on thepodcast.
I'm going to Venice onWednesday.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
For how long?

Speaker 1 (07:20):
I'll be in Venice for a long weekend, from Thursday
to Sunday.
Right and get this, it's noteven a geocaching trip.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
What Can you believe it?
Are you going with your wifeTammy oh?

Speaker 1 (07:33):
that's a no, I know it's bad.
It's bad.
We've had a conversation,everything's fine.
It's okay.
She doesn't listen to thispodcast, so she won't know.
I promised her that we would gosomeday together.
No, it's a guy's weekend.
A guy's weekend in what?
Venice, wow, with my friend,daniel fleeker.
If you watch my videos?

(07:53):
yes, I know daniel, he.
He reached out to me severalmonths ago.
He was josh, speaking of theairbnbs.
He goes.
I rented an air Airbnb castlein Venice Wow, and he goes.
I'm inviting nine of my bestfriends and Josh, you were one
of my best friends, Can you cometo Venice for a weekend?

(08:15):
I was like Daniel, Daniel, thisguy he's funny.
I said, Daniel, you know a tripfrom Venice for you?
He's from Germany.
Yeah, it's like me going toChicago for a weekend.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yes, I was going to say yeah it's like or Vegas
Vegas.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
It's like yeah, no big deal, right?
No big deal, no.
For me this is a big trip to goto Venice from Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
What's travel like in terms of hours on planes and
stuff it?
What's travel like in terms of?

Speaker 1 (08:43):
hours on planes and stuff.
It's similar to what Germany is.
It's probably like if I flewdirectly there, which I'm not
it's probably about nine hours.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, if that's the case, then you're going to have
to do what we've said before onthis previous episode You're
going to have to raw dog it mate, just raw.
No way, no way.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Anyway, I asked Daniel.
I was like what are we going todo in Venice?
He goes, we're going to becausewe're not geocaching.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
No, You'll find one or two.
Oh, I will geocache you have to.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
I got to get that souvenir Exactly.
But he goes, we're going to eatmeat and drink wine I was like
sounds great.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Thumbs up, I'm all in and we're gonna ride on boats,
yeah, and then craig, then craig.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
I am going to germany to uh do some uh video work for
him in hanover right after allthe way back yeah, I'll be gone
a week, so that's to pay for thetrip there you go.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
there you mate, well done.
Well, you're going to have tointroduce me to Daniel, just
saying he sounds like a verynice, gracious sort of guy.
He is a very funny guy too,josh.
If people don't know who DanielFlieger is.
Just watch any of Josh's videosand you'll see him, especially
all the Germany tour ones, thecash tours that Daniel puts on.

(10:06):
He is a great guy, an extremelyfunny guy.
Some people don't know becausesome of these puns, some of
these jokes, land on the cuttingroom floor from the videos.
Because if I was to put all ofthem in there, Josh, your videos
would go for half an hour andthey're inappropriate.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
They're inappropriate sometimes.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, this is true, they're inappropriate sometimes.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, this is true, they're a guy For my videos.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah, exactly For my videos Not children-friendly,
for instance.
But yeah, no, he is a great guy.
So, yeah, go watch Josh'svideos and you'll see more about
him.
So, mate, I'm very, very proud,but I'm very happy for you for
going to Venice there, you go.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, it's your delay .

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well, I was going to say so, there's the ups.
Now, what are the downs?
So my delays?
I don't really have any when Iwas trying to think about it.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
I know that's good, Life's good man.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
That's good.
That's good.
The only real ones I can thinkabout, josh, is that I've put
out a couple more videos, likeover the last couple of days
sorry, the last couple of weeksof my trips around.
So I did one when I wentgeocaching with a mate of mine
in California and we did abrilliant multicache that was
dedicated to a lovely person whounfortunately has passed away

(11:13):
last year.
It's a six-stage multicache ina business location, nursery,
and every stage is a gadgetcache on its own and the view
numbers, josh, just they're justnot up there.
I don't know what's withyoutube, whatever as well, and
so it's just.
It's just sad that peoplearen't seeing this sort of uh,

(11:33):
you know these sort of cachesthat they can recreate
themselves to some degree fortheir own.
You know areas and communities,so yeah, there you go my I've
seen that video.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's very good by the .
It'll be in the show notes.
Yeah, it's just.
It's the nature of just whereYouTube is right now.
In the video ecosystem, shortform is king right now.
Yeah, but mark my words, itwon't be that way forever.
Yeah, and I think at some pointwhether it's five years, ten

(12:02):
years I bet you a long-formvideo will make a comeback.
That's my prediction.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
I saw a hat the other day and I was going to buy it,
and it's a videographer's hatobviously, because it says make
video horizontal again.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, I saw that.
I've seen that before.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
I love that hat Make video horizontal again.
So there you go, and here's thething.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
I just and this is for anybody that creates video
create what you enjoy making.
Yes, like, if you enjoy making20-minute videos, make a
20-minute video.
If you enjoy making shorts,short videos, do that.
Just do what you like, becausethen if you enjoy it, then
you're going to probably be morelikely to keep doing it.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
And at the same time Josh, you need to think about
this as well and one of our goodfriends, minnesota boy Tim, a
proud patron as well of the show.
His videos are out there.
He does them, though, as wellbecause he's got grandkids, and
so the joy he has watching hisgrandkids watch him on TV is
just amazing and he's proud toshare that with us sometimes and

(13:05):
I feel really blessed by that.
And it's just amazing, I mean,he's and he's proud to share
that with us sometimes and Ifeel really blessed by that.
And, um, yeah, and it's, it'scute, it's gorgeous.
And you think about it longer.
When he's long gone and it'sgonna happen to all of us and
his kids, his grandkids areolder, they're gonna be able to
say, look, this was mygrandfather back in the day you
know, and and just that's socool.
we don't have that.
You don't have that of yourgrandfather, I don't have it of

(13:25):
mine, no.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
I wish I did.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Exactly, and so I think that's what's going to
happen in future generations.
So, yeah, make videosthemselves if that's what you
want to do, and don't worryabout the views and stuff and
more worry about what it's goingto do and the legacy like Tim,
for instance, for his grandkids.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, yeah.
I'm just waiting for my futuregrandkids to be like wow,
grandpa went to Italy withoutgrandma Tammy, what a jerk.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
I know Grandma Tammy is still alive, so let's go and
ask her about it and poke thebear.
They'll be like.
Oh what.
My grandfather was obsessedwith finding these boxes in the
woods.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
What the?

Speaker 2 (14:05):
heck Gosh.
Anyway, we're starting toramble, josh.
What about your delays, mate?
What have you been doing today,Life's?

Speaker 1 (14:12):
been good, life's been good, not a lot of delays.
And I want to make it veryclear I absolutely love my day
job.
If I won the lottery, I wouldstill do my day job, but August
is day job.
If I won the, lottery, I wouldstill do my day job and but
august is so busy as we'regetting ready, we work at
schools.
We work at school so we'retraining new people.
It's been.
It's been a lot, a lot of work,yeah, and so we're.

(14:37):
I'm excited for the school yearto start, so things get more
normal.
But I've been just it.
This is a very welcome break asI head to venice this week
there we go, there we go.
All right, mate we're 15 minutesinto this episode already.
That's okay.
That's okay because we don'thave a guest, it's just you and
me.
We haven't had an episode likethis for a while, but just you
and me, just the two of us.

(14:57):
We can make it if I try.
Just the two of us, yeah, justevery time.
Every time this has to be asong somewhere.
So yeah, josh, we're going totalk.
Just the two of us, yeah, justthe two of us Every time.
Just the two of us Every time.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
There has to be a song somewhere.
So, josh, we're going to talkabout Airbnbs.
You and I have both researchedthis.
Now disclaimer, you and I, wehaven't stayed at these
particular ones, and if we havestayed at one of these, we're
going to obviously say that westayed there as well.
We do have links Ready for this.

(15:28):
We'd have links to every airbnbwe say in the show notes.
So if you're listening to this,people, and you go, okay, you
think of one or whatever, pausethe episode and then go to the
show notes, click on the linkand then you can view it first
as well, and then we'll talkabout it obviously as well.
We're going to do their best todescribe these, josh, too.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yes, but, or but they can play along they can
actually play along like theycan be listening to this on uh
on their phone or uh theirlaptop and they can click on and
like look at these pictures.
Because this is kind of yeahit's kind of this is a little
bit visual, but yes, yeah, we'regonna do very, our very best to
describe these.

(16:00):
And boy craig, first, before westart.
Boy was this one, because I waslike I like if I were you and I
had stew touring the country.
I would, I would take this list,this you know we love our list,
craig oh yeah, oh yeah, I wouldtake this list and I it would.
It would have check boxes and Iwould try to visit all 10 of
these in one trip.

(16:22):
It would be such an epic,hilarious, funny, visually
stimulating and great trip.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
So now just a disclaimer these are all are in
the us, so there's no othercountries at all.
This is all us only based.
We did we, we had that premisethere in the beginning.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Plus josh, they are all under 200 a night yes, that
was our premise we had to havethey have to be us and they have
to be under two hundred dollarsa night, so you know they're
affordable for everyone yeah,and the reason we did that is
because, like there's let's bereal, there's some extravagant
like mansions and like insanemansions, like in like a

(17:00):
thousand dollars, two thousanddollars a night.
We could, we could have done adifferent show, doing the luxury
, yes and some of these.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Some of these ones are for two people only, like
there are one bedroom place, sotwo people max, that's it.
Others we've got like a six oreight people can actually uh,
you know stay at the airbnb.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
So there's a variety of places, a variety but can I
just say one one of them that Ifound that was really unique,
that was really expensive beforewe start this is not.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
This is not a part of our list.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
No, it's not a list, because we're gonna do 10.
I don't know if you found thisone, but did you find the in
roswell, new mexico, theunderground missile bunker?

Speaker 2 (17:41):
no, I didn't see that one because I had my filters
for under 200, so of course Ididn't see that one because I
had my filters for under 200, soof course I didn't see that one
there's an underground missilebunker where you go underground
there there's a little like siloarea where the missile what?

Speaker 1 (17:55):
there's no missile there anymore, yeah, and there's
like a.
It's just like something out oflike, wow, you know the 50s,
where like if this thing got, ifamerica got bombed or whatever,
that you had a full like livingroom down there and like it was
expensive, but undergroundmissile bunker looking up in new

(18:16):
roswell, new mexico and andthis is that.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
That's the sort of thing we're going to talk about,
josh as well, is those crazytype of airbnbs that people like
to stay at.
They want to take photos.
They want to say look, guesswhere I stayed, for instance, as
well.
Do you want to start or do youwant me?
To go first, you can start?

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Sure, I'll start.
So the first place we're goingto go is Eureka Springs,
arkansas.
Okay, eureka Springs, arkansas.
Now, we didn't have time to sayexactly where those are, so
maybe, craig, we can go back andforth, do a little map questing
, or if you're playing at home,I'm not exactly sure where
Eureka Springs, arkansas is.
Yep, but this is called theLivingston Junction Caboose.

(18:56):
Oh, and it is exactly what youthink it is.
It is a real, probably formallyused red caboose From like a
train caboose, from a traincaboose, and you look inside of
it and it almost looks like it'slong, of course, so it's almost

(19:18):
very like RV-ish, oh yeah, youknow, like full kitchen,
bus-like Shower, Mm-hmm, all the, but it's, it's a real caboose.
And they say in the descriptionit says you'll love this unique
and romantic escape I think ifI take tammy, to the caboose.
She'd be like wow, this is aromantic escape.

(19:39):
However, you know what makes itprobably the most romantic?
What's that?
Right outside the caboosethere's a big deck yeah and
sitting on that deck oh, craigyou.
And I love this, this podcastwas birthed in this there is a
private hot tub, wow I love anairbnb with a hot tub oh yeah,

(20:01):
even even though there's riskfor you know probably some sort
of diseases, but I've never hadany problems chlor you're just
putting up with your headunderwater, it's chlorinated and
stuff too.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
So just to let people know, in terms of the exact
location map wise, we're talkingthe uh, the northwestern side,
like almost the northwesterncorner of arkansas, up that way.
Okay, oh yeah, yeah, that'swhere it is.
So there you go, it's in a verysecluded, beautiful wooded area
.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
The caboose is I mean , it's not ugly caboose, like
it's not nicely painted yes,there's a red yes, it's red.
There is a.
There's a grill on the porchand it's.
It looks like secluded in awooded area.
Yes, with a hammock in the back.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
It just looks absolutely lovely and if you're
listening along as well, becauseobviously I've got the pictures
up, because I've got the linksum, yeah, you walk through this
and now we we're talking aboutthe old school trains.
Now, josh, you and I and tim,we went on an old school train,
um to the, the grand canyon yes,and similar thing here whereby
you some of the things from thatold school train tram.

(21:04):
You know, caboose is stillthere, so you've got to walk
through this area, for instance,that's thinner than other areas
, like a little walkway, andthen instead of having just, uh,
you know nothing there, they'veactually got like um seating up
atop, so you go up like acouple of steps to some seating
area.
Um, they've still got the oldrail, some of the old rail
itself that's inside with likeold telephones and that sort of

(21:27):
thing too.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
So, yeah, there you go, there you go, and then a
couple more statistics, ifyou're interested Not bad, $175
a night.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Two guests.
It's a caboose, one bed you'resharing.
So if we go, craig, we'resharing.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah, those bed you're sharing.
So if we go craig we're sharing.
Yeah, those are pillows, thoseare pillows that's my man boobs.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Anyway, keep moving on.
One one bath, it's a realcaboose.
Yeah, that's, that's my firstone that's all.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
I like it, I like it.
And again, I'm just looking atthe photos.
Even in the bathroom, josh,they've got the old school
bathroom toilet roll holder andit's still got the sticker on it
that says please do not flushtoilet while train is moving.
So there you go.
Oh, that's funny.
Yeah, yeah, you've got to lovethe old school stickers on there
too.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
You've got to love the little extra touches.
A lot of these have some justextra touches inside that make
it great.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Exactly All right, that's your number one.
I Exactly All right, that'syour number one.
I'm going to move on to mine.
Mine, I'm going to say it withan accent.
Are you ready for this?
It is get to the chopper, getto the chopper, get to the
chopper.
That's not a tumor, but that'swhat it is, and it is exactly
what it says.
It is get to the chopper.

(22:40):
It is an actual helicopter, ohmy gosh.
Not just small little stingyhelicopters.
No, this is the big armyhelicopters, that troop carrier
type helicopters, the one withthe blade at the front and the
blade at the back.
It's very similar to thecaboose, whereby it's sitting
there on the ground with anoutdoor area, etc as well.
This is located, of course.

(23:00):
Of course this has to belocated in brooksville, florida,
which is directly west fromOrlando, about 30 minutes west
of Orlando in Florida.
$176 a night, josh.
You can stay in this helicopterfor $167 a night.
It can have up to six guests.
There's four bedrooms, onebathroom.

(23:21):
It is big, it is big.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
It's a Chinook, a Chinook, yeah, that's it.
Yeah, people know it is big, itis big.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
It's a Chinook.
A Chinook yeah people know.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Did you say that already?

Speaker 2 (23:30):
No, I just said army helicopter.
I didn't know that word.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, so again, you can't see it Like you think.
A typical helicopter.
You're like nobody's sleepingin that little thing.
No, this thing is like it's aChinook.
Look up Chinook, look Chinook.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Look up the Chinook and it even says it's a CH-47D
helicopter.
So it even has a serial number.
It's decommissioned and it'sstill got a serial number on
there from the actual army, josh.
So there you go, a real,repurposed Chinook helicopter.
It is pet-friendly as well, butyou must get a pre-approval for
this one.
But what I love the most aboutthis inside.

(24:04):
So you go inside itself and youthink to yourself okay, you go
inside a building and it's justgot the perspex.
Well, not perspex, it's gotdrywall walls and stuff.
No, this has still got theinterior components of all the
walls.
And what they've done isthey've taken some of the metal
plates away from inside thewalls and put a perspex, like a
see-through perspex, on theinside of the walls and put a
perspex like a see-throughperspex on the inside of the
walls.

(24:24):
Therefore, you can see theinner workings in between the
walls themselves.
And we're talking about thecabling for it, the electrical
for it.
You know some of the otherworking parts, josh, it still
has the cockpit, you can sit inthe cockpit.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I'm looking at it right now.
This is amazing.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, so that's mine.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
They've done such a good job to really make it Still
a helicopter and it's likeinside, outside it's a little
rough.
It looks like it's been throughsome Stuff.
Oh my gosh, it's the first timeI think I've sworn on this
podcast.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
There you go that's okay.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
We're all adults here , right?

Speaker 2 (25:09):
exactly, I can do a beep, it's all right.
Okay, yeah, we should do a beep.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Um yeah, it's rough on the outside, but the inside
is nice yes, while maintainingand like the.
Have you seen the kitchen?
It's like a stainless steelkitchen with like pots hanging
like.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's like surprisingly classy yeah,
exactly, and on the outsidethough, josh, it still is like
gated in.
So you've got a little umfenced in area so you can
actually have.
I said before about the petsand stuff as well.
You can have your dog here too,but you've got games outside.
You got that.
What do you call it?
The shuffleboard?
No, the, the Chuck, the Beanbagthings that you have here in

(25:46):
America.
I can't even remember.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, cornhole, cornhole.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
It's got Cornhole.
It's got a fully enclosed bararea on the outside as well, so
you can sit there have yourdrinks.
Can you imagine the photoopportunities you can have at a
place like?

Speaker 1 (26:01):
this.
Oh my gosh, this looks like agood party spot.
We're not condoning likepartying in Airbnbs, but hey,
I've hosted a party in an Airbnb.
It's just great.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Exactly right.
Parties don't have to be therowdy party.
We have adult parties wherebywe just actually enjoy a few
beers and have a chat, and thisdoes have up to six guests and
two bedrooms separate bedrooms.
So you can even be with twocouples, have a nice two-couple
evening there as well.
So there you go, that's a goodone, Craig.
That's mine.
You like that one?
I thought you would.
It's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
All it needed was a hot tub, and it would have been
perfect.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
I know it is missing a hot tub, so if you own the
chopper and you're listening tothis, get a hot tub there you go
, but then the price will go upExactly, it'll be over $200 if
it has a hot tub, that's forsure.
This is true, this is true.
All right, you're number two,mate.
You're number two.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
We're going to Texas.
Oh, I'm going to probablymurder the name of this town.
Yeah, you are late.
Ladonia, ladonia, ladonia,ladonia ladonia ladonia, ladonia
, let's call the whole thing off.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Ladonia texas that josh is uh northeast of dallas,
so just everyone's yeah, in thatsort of top top corner there.
So yeah, there you go Northeastof Dallas.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
We're looking at the Air Castle Treehouse.
What the Air Castle Treehouse?
Now?
This is going to be a tough oneto explain, but when I saw the
pictures of this I was like, ohmy gosh.
Now it's kind of a trend, Craig, to have tree houses on airbnb.

(27:43):
There's a lot of tree housesout there, like people like
literally build on theirproperty these tree houses.
But the thing about this treehouse is that was built out of,
I believe, four shippingcontainers.
Do you know what I mean byshipping containers?

Speaker 2 (27:56):
yeah, yeah, I know shipping containers.
We have them in australia aswell.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
They go all over the world yeah, you, I think people
can ship stuff in boats yes,they ship them maybe trucks and
maybe even planes, I don't knowand they're huge Shipping
containers.
It's just like a huge, giganticrectangular box.
Yeah, and so what they did withthese shipping containers is
that they stacked them on top ofeach other, okay, and made this

(28:22):
sort of like tree house.
This thing, craig, is like sixstories tall it's so tall.
Are you looking at the pictures?

Speaker 2 (28:31):
of it.
I am now yeah, of course, ofcourse, yeah, six stories tall
it's like six stories tall madeout of these shipping containers
.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
There's's like different steps and, I'm sure,
ladders to get all the way up atthe top.
The top is there's like thisit's in a very like wooded tree
area and so when you're on thevery top of the six story
stacked shipping containers, youget like this You're above the
canopy of trees, oh, and it'sjust like.

(29:00):
If you look towards the verylast few pictures, you can just
see you're literally in thetreetops above and there's a
beautiful seating area up thereand there's spiral staircases
that go all the way up to thetop and it looks like it's in
the middle of nowhere, just likea beautiful nature area.

(29:21):
And the inside of theseshipping containers it's like
it's, it's gorgeous, like wood,like they've furnished the
inside.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Just really have an amazing way, yeah so just to
just to reiterate, josh as well,because you don't know
obviously much about shippingcontainers this is six stories
high, okay, we're talking sixstories high, but not, it's not
six shipping containers, no,it's only three shipping
containers.
What?
This is six stories high, okay,we're talking six stories high,
but it's not six shippingcontainers, no, it's only three
shipping containers.
What they've done is they'vedone two of the shipping
containers on their ends, yousee.

(29:51):
Oh yes, so they're on their endsand then they're pointing all
the way up to the top, so you'vegot two side-by-side on their
ends and then you have one byitself up the top.
That's actually like inlengthways, so it's it's like a
big uh l shape or corner shapeum that's how it's, that's how
they've done it.
So, exactly right, that's howthey've done it, mate.
So they've two on it.
So it's really.
I've only used three instead ofsix, um, but you still get that

(30:14):
that depth there at the topwith the uh, with the one going
out lengthways, so that's prettycool.
I do see see Josh as well,because obviously you're up the
top of a night, for instance, aswell, and you're having a few
beverages.
There's a big outdoor area upthe top, on the roof.
You can actually look out andsee all the animals, josh, and
we're talking raccoons, we'retalking squirrels, birds, that

(30:35):
sort of thing, even pigs, josh,wild pigs are working around as
well.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
So pigs are working around as well.
So that's really cool,beautiful area.
In one of the levels, I mean,it's like this.
This is kind of like a mansionmade out of shipping.
It's like it's big.
Yeah, because yeah, I believeit you can host um four guests.
There's two bedrooms, two beds,one bath.
But, craig, on one of thelevels I'm looking, if you look
almost to the, almost to the endof the pictures, but not quite
there is a hot tub.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yes, I did see that it's like a hot tub area, like a
screened-in porch area.
Wow, but not just the hot tub,Josh as well.
I see that there's a big firepit downstairs on the ground.
That's got a big cover over thetop of the fire pit as well.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
That's really unique a covered fire pit yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
That's really cool.
That's really cool and we all,we all love a fire pit too,
because I mean you myself, uhtim and uh rob as well when we
stayed in and recently inarizona, we had a little gas
fire pit out the front on thebalcony and it's really lovely
to sit out there overnight aftera big day of geocaching and
munzee, playing and whateverelse as well, um, and sit out
there and have a couple of beers.
You know, around a around anice fire.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
So there you go.
So this is barely made the cut,craig, $199 a night.
But for what you get if you seethe picture you're like this
totally is worth it, especiallyif you go in with another couple
or something like that, whichis really interesting.
One more thing about this isthat you need to sign a waiver

(32:01):
to stay here.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Oh, in case you fall off the top or what.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Maybe there might be a danger factor and you have to
be 12 or over.
They don't want kids climbingup on this thing.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
That makes sense for insurance purposes, et cetera as
well, Especially in the US whenyou guys love to sue everything
that moves.
But anyway, we'll move on.
My next one, Josh, is thebandwagon.
Get on the bandwagon.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Do you know what?

Speaker 2 (32:28):
that means Get on the bandwagon.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, it's like a wagon filled with a band.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
It's like getting on the bandwagon means you're
getting on with a trend.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Yes, but I know what a bandwagon is.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yes, but this is actually a bandwagon, so these
are actual wagons themselves.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Oh my gosh, these are cool.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
I'm not talking just one wagon.
Okay, people just think aboutthis.
You're sitting down and you'rewatching an old school western
movie from Wyoming and they'retraveling across Wyoming.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
On the Oregon Trail trail on the oregon trail.
That's where they're travelingand they fjord the river and
they die of dysentery.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
But yeah, they're actually like pulling these
wagons along and the wagonsthemselves these.
So these are the same wagons.
From the outside they lookexactly the same.
They've got the wagon wheels uminside, though absolutely
beautifully decked.
So it's like.
You heard of glamping josh.
You've heard of surely?
so it's the same sort of thingin terms of glamping, because
you've only got that canvasoutline, so it's like you don't

(33:33):
have any indoor area.
You've got it's indoors, butit's only canvas line, so it's
not actually, you know, it's nota full hard wall, etc.
Um, so these, there's severalof these throughout this
property.
So you, there's not just one,um, you can set up to four
guests for this as well.
One, obviously they're only onebedrooms, but there's three
beds, so obviously there's uh,there's the single beds as well.

(33:55):
So if you're going to go withas a family, you can do it as
family as well.
One bathroom is also.
But what I love as well, josh,this on the outdoor area,
they've got like a fire pitagain, like an actual, real fire
pit.
They've got these chairs.
These chairs are wooden ortimber chairs and the legs of
these chairs, like they'rerocking chairs, are made with
wagon wheels.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
They're made with wagon wheels as they're rockier
as well.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
So that's really cool , and $147 a night.
$147 a night, that's all it is.
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
To back up a bit.
This is Benton.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Tennessee.
I totally forgot where I wasgoing to say.
Yeah, exactly, Benton Tennessee.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
It's just outside Chattanooga.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Tennessee yes, near the border of Georgia, that's
right.
That's the one.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
And it's cool because the covered wagons on the
photos, the actual covered partof it, is a fabric and it's
translucent and it's like atnight, when it's all lit up, it
looks like one of those hot airballoons at night.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yes, Like it's beautiful.
That's a great aesthetic.
Yes, yeah, absolutely gorgeous.
And, as I said, there is morethan one here in this particular
property, so if you book one,then you can obviously book a
couple, for instance, and staywith friends as well, so you can
do it that way.
So there you go, the bandwagonnear the Ochi Riverside Farm.

(35:14):
That's where it's on.
So there you go, josh.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
What do you think of that one?
That's great.
You like that one.
Yeah, it's a little bit tooglamping for me.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
It is.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
I don't think there, I didn't see like a bathroom.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
There is.
There is, but it's a sort ofshared common area.
I didn't see a hairdryer.
No, no.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
So far that one's on the bottom, so it's cool, don't
get me wrong.
It's cool, but it's on thebottom for me.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
so far just okay, is it?
Another note as well.
This may help some people withtheir minds.
It is actually on a workingfarm too, so you can actually
interact with farm animals bywalking around the farm etc as
well, so like chickens andhorses and that sort of thing
too.
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yeah, I feel like horses.
There's a horse on the pictureand the yeah page yeah, yeah,
exactly, all right, there you go.
Your next one your next we'regoing to bush prairie,
washington.
Look it up, craig, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
I I am I am bush prairie, washington right now,
and I zoom all the way out.
It is, oh, just north ofportland.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
So just north, literally just across the river
from portland so southernwashington, um, you know who
lives close to there is thesupernauts, anyway.
Yes, that's a, that's ageocaching deep cut.
Yeah, there you go, people, ifyou know the supernauts.
Um, this one is called get thisSpaceship Destination.

(36:43):
Oh, is this one?
Oh, my gosh, have you everheard of the term mother-in-law
suite?

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yeah, I have.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Where people you know they have a property and they
build a little place for theirmother-in-law to stay.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yeah, at the back, slightly away from the home, far
, far, far, far away.
Yes, I know those very well.
We have those in Australia too.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Well, this is outside somebody's home.
It's kind of a mother-in-lawsuite, but it's a mother-in-law
suite, unlike you've ever seenbefore, because it is a UFO.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
It really is and it is a ufo.
It really is, it's and it's abig, big ufo, holy cow.
So, josh, I'm just thinking aswell, we can go on this.
We've talked about cabooses,we're talking about helicopters.
Is this actually a real ufo?
Like did they?

Speaker 1 (37:36):
get this from area 51 yes, it's real, I'm sure
actually.
No, I don't think it's realbecause it's too nice, like,
clearly, this thing did notcrash land.
No, it's really nice.
It's big, this thing.
You could have up to six peoplesleep in this thing, which is
kind of crazy.
So, of course, if you'relooking at the outside, it looks
like just a big silver UFO yeah, a dome, big silver ufo dome.

(38:06):
Yeah, um, the living area isjust it, they.
This is one of those ones wherethey've had all the little
touches inside to really fully100 commit to the bit, commit to
, yeah, the the ufo.
So it's like kind of, yes,there's like like little control
panels everywhere.
Um, there's a television butlike there's like a stereo, but
it's like little control panels.
Everywhere there's a televisionbut there's like a stereo, but

(38:28):
the stereo is built into thewall.
So it kind of looks like 1960sStar Trek.
It's like retro 60s UFO.
It's like if the aliens landedin the 60s.
So, yeah, they've created these.
It looks like these, just likefake little control panels with
like these lights and all thesestuff on the coffee tables.
They're just.
It's all space themed magazines.

(38:51):
Craig r2d2 is in this thing.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Of course r2d2 is yeah and not only r2d2, but
there's the.
There's the other one I can'teven recall his name the big,
tall one, will Robinson Danger,will Danger.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Will Robinson.
Yes, from Lost in Space.
Lost in Space, that's the one,the robot from Lost in Space is
in there.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
You've got alien heads themselves that are on the
coffee table.
But, josh, one of the things Isaw in here as well I'm not sure
if you saw it or not, but youwould love, love, love this
they've got an actual area withall costumes so you can dress up
as chewbacker, you can dress upas you know, uh, your favorite
ewok, and all them as well.

(39:32):
So they've actually gotcostumes inside for you to dress
up and theme yourself as well.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
So there you go yep, the whole place is just all ufo
stuff and it looks like abeautiful area.
It looks like it's out in thecountry, but again, this one is
not super secluded because Ithink the homeowner lives right
next door.
But when I've had thoseexperiences, I've stayed in tiny
houses like this In Alaska.

(39:57):
We stayed in a tiny house andthose folks they don't bother
you and often they take care ofyou um yeah, like when I did a a
tiny house in alaska, thehomeowner was right there in the
regular house and they putfresh ground coffee in front of
on our step every day.
So it's kind of nice to have.
That's nice to have the ownersnext year because in case you
ever need anything, they'realways there.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
the hospitality is really great and this thing at
night it looks so cool, itlights up it's got led colored
ufos, exactly if you go therewith your family as well, josh,
they've actually got a littleoutdoor area for for the kids to
play in and it's like a littletreehouse thing, but it's
actually a looks like aspaceship.
They've done it up like aspaceship as well, so you've got
a spaceship for the kidsoutside too.

(40:40):
So there you go it is, and itis in a snow area too.
So if you go there in winter,it will be snow and it'll be all
white.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
So this is very affordable 150 a night for gifts
for six guests.
Yeah but there's only one bathone bathroom, so that could be a
problem.
Yeah, yeah and obviously the.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
The others will be in pull-out beds as well.
So there are pull-out bedrooms.
You know, that's yeah, exactly,exactly, there you go, wow, wow
, I like that one, josh.
Thank you, um, and you thinkabout it too, because at the
moment, uh, or last month nowafter people listen to this was
the uh, the geo challenge of themonth was to find something
space themed too.
Remember we had all that goingthrough.

(41:21):
So there you go there you goall right, my next one, josh.
My next one.
We're going to go to terralinga, texas.
I think it's called terralinga.
Terralinga it's near the borderof mexico, it's all the way
down south, and this one here iscalled rendezvous land, yacht,
land yacht and it's exactly whatyou think it is.

(41:43):
So you think about the area.
It's in texas, near thesouthern border itself, so
there's nothing around, really,apart from cactus and sand, uh,
no water whatsoever.
And yet this josh is a fully,or used to be a fully
functioning and working, uh,shipping boat.
So, uh, like a, like a boattrawler.
So you've got a trawler in themiddle of the desert.

(42:04):
Basically, yes, $120 a night,so that's a bargain.
That's a bargain, but there'sthree guests, one bedroom and
one bathroom.
Now, as I said before, this is afull fishing boat parked in the
middle of the desert.
It's got a full steering wheelstill at the helm, and you can
even go upstairs on the deck upthe top and you can pretend to

(42:25):
be, you know, the captainfishing from up the top as well,
fishing for what I don't know.
Um, it's also got an outdoorfire pit, as we before we love
these, uh, and with full,complete seating.
But on the back behind there'san actual get this josh.
There's a jet ski, an An actual, again, a real jet ski.
But the jet ski themselves hasturned into like a kid's toy.

(42:47):
You know those rocking thingson a big spring, yeah.
This is a jet ski on a bigspring out the back.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
It's funny, and it's also a great photo op too.
I'm sure that's funny.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Oh yeah, absolutely.
This is located in Tin ValleyRetro Rentals, so it is actually
located in a full area of otherrentals.
It's a big land area.
You can have a number ofdifferent stays in this area,
mostly RV type stays, so this isthe only one that's really sort
of unique, and there's also acamping area as well, in the
same same area too.

(43:22):
So there you go.
What questions do you haveabout this one, josh well?

Speaker 1 (43:27):
I'm just looking.
There's so many pictures on theI know on the site, but and
like there's a lot of peoplehaving a good time, that's for
sure, and it's just like filledwith like photo ops, like
there's like couples laying onthe deck of the boat like
they're out at sea.
Yeah, um, and boy, if you're,if you're wanting to get some
great stargazing, oh my gosh,there's no light pollution these

(43:49):
photos are just gorgeous.
This is out there.
It looks like it's a part oflike a property where there's
other sort of just people likesleeping out there yeah, that's
what it's part of the uh, thetin tin properties themselves.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
So there's other um camping areas out there.
You can free camp as well, oryou there's rv locations too, so
you can actually camp out inyour rv or you can rent an rv
out there as well.
So there's other sort of uhit's like an airbnb sort of area
camping area that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
So there you go.
It looks like it's close to bigben national park, which looks
beautiful.
Yes, yes, there's a people uhcanoeing on a river in the park.
This is yeah.
If you like, the desert man,this is yeah oh yeah, gorgeous,
maybe go, maybe go in februaryto this one yeah, now there is.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
There is not an indoor bathroom, the is outdoors
.
There's an outhouse sort ofstyle bathroom Because, you
think about it, this is in themiddle of nowhere, josh, this is
a desert.
There's no sewage facilitiesand toilet facilities like that,
so literally it would be a droptoilet and sort of in the
outhouse.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
So there you go, hold on, I'm checking out the
amenities and just making sure,checking for it, I don't.
Oh boy, oh boy, craig.
What, what, what?
No hair dryers listed oh, ofcourse not.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Is that really there's?
No wi-fi no wi-fi, no tv, nowasher, no dryer.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
No, no, it's pretty much gilligan's island out there
.
People exactly.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
But josh 120 a night.
What can you expect for 120 anight?
No, it's pretty much gilligan'sisland out there.
People exactly.
But josh 120 a night.
What can you expect for 120 anight?
so it's glamping but I'd saytaking glamping up a next level
from the covered wagon, yes,yeah, well, yeah, because it's
not really, because I think,personally, the covered wagon
themselves, it's more of a nicerarea, an area more people would
stay.
This one here is more campingthan glamping, you know what I

(45:43):
mean.
This is more of the rugged sortof side of things.
So there you go.
So that's my rendezvous land,and it's called rendezvous
because that's the name of theboat.
The boat's name is rendezvous.
So there you go, yeah yeah,yeah.
Exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
All right, this is my second to last one.
Oh, no, and I believe ourfriend shorty knits from, who
has been on our podcast before,yeah, I think she was inspired
by our roadside attractions,march madness to visit this
place.
Yeah, it is the big idahopotato hotel.

(46:18):
I think she went there.
Didn't she go there?
She did, she stayed there.
Didn't she go there?
She did, she stayed there.
I'm sure she stayed there.
It's exactly what you thinkit's in Boise, idaho.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
Yep Appropriate.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
And it is a gigantic potato.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
That's it Just a potato.
It's a big potato that you cansleep in.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
And yeah, that's it, Just a potato.
It's a big potato that you cansleep in?
And yeah, that's it, it's not.
I mean it's a big potato, butit only has one bedroom, one bed
, one bath.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
It's literally one room.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Pretty much.
But then this is.
I've stayed in the ones likethis before there's like a
sleeping the potato is where yousleep and stuff, and then if
there's like a grain, a grainbin, that they have made it like
a shower bathroom situation.
So you like walk out of yourpotato and then you, if you want
, to go to the bathroom.
So this is kind of likeglamping too, but there's

(47:19):
actually, like it looks like atoilet shower situation.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
And even so, that toilet shower situation with a
grain silo like that, like it'sthemed still, you know what I
mean.
Like it's still, it's not justlike an outhouse, timber
outhouse, no, this is actually agrain silo where some potatoes
would even be stored at somepoint.
You know what I mean, right?
Yeah, I like it and you knowwhat you think?

Speaker 1 (47:39):
I'm staying in a potato.
Really that can't be nice.
Well, the inside is nice.
It's a nice interior of thispotato.
Like they've hollowed thepotato out, there's like a
fireplace in this potato.
It's nice.
I've never been to Boise haveyou been to Boise?

Speaker 2 (47:58):
No, no, I've never been to Boise.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
So there you been to boise.
No, no, I've never been toboise.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
So there you go.
Yeah, absolutely yeah.
Outside of it is looks like amini golf course.
Yes, yes, because it's all sortof um, it's all contained
within, like a timber fence allthe way around, like an old
school sort of uh, westerntimber fence.
Um, it's got the green grassand then you've got the white
pebbles that that you walkacross between your potato and
then the bathroom area.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
It's just a lovely setup.
Yeah, there you go.
Wow, it's $190 a night, but youknow what, which is a little
bit more on the pricey side.
But then you can say you knowwhat, when I visited Boise, I
slept in a potato.
Who can?

Speaker 2 (48:39):
say that?
Who can say that?

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Shorty Nitz can say that.
Who can say that?
Shorty nets can say that thisis true, this is true, hopefully
I can too someday well, thereyou go.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Well, I'm going to move on now and I'm going to
save my best one to last.
So I've skipped one, josh, okay.
So I'm now heading to.
I'm heading to dome, sweet dome, and this is also in oregon as
well.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
It's in bend, oregon oh my gosh, one of my last one
preview is in bend, as well, soyou can have two of these.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Yeah, there you go, there you go.
So this is in bend, oregon, um,it's 155 a night, so again
quite affordable.
Three guests, two bedrooms, twobeds and one bath.
Now, this is literally what itsays.
It's a dome, it's a geos,geodesic dome.
We love, we love our geo thing.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
So it's a geodesic dome, yes it's, which means it's
shaped like the earth.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
I don't know geodeo, I know I think geodesic means
like it's a uh uh, like it'smade out of so many different
pieces so it's a it's not acomplete circle per se.
Yeah, it is overall, but it's.
It's got square, it's got flatplate pieces, all over triangles
, triangles.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
It's like many triangles put together.
Yes, making a dome yep, yeah,exactly right.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
So that's what happens with it, but the one.
What I loved about this, josh,is that it's two stories, so you
can walk straight into thefront and you're walking to the
top story, but then you godownstairs as well for the
second story.
So it's quite large.
It's not like the potato, whereit's just one room.
The second floor of this oneitself is actually floating.
It doesn't touch the walls, soit's actually hanging from the

(50:13):
roof, the ceiling, it's nottouching the walls itself, and
therefore what happens is thatthe sounds that you make because
it's a dome, the sounds thatyou make, echo throughout the
entire dome, from top to bottom.
See, this would be interesting.
This is very interesting.
That's what I thought too.
There is no blackout curtains inany of the windows.
So basically, when the suncomes up, guess what?

(50:35):
You're getting up too.
There you go.
That's not going to be good foryou.
I know you like your sleepingwith Goliath, yeah, so once the
sun rises, you're up as well.
It's close enough to town inregards to supplies, but you are
very secluded on the propertyitself, so you can walk around
naked, for instance, and noone's going to see you because
you're fully enclosed around abushland woodland area and again

(50:58):
open fire pit and outdoorseating, which we all, I love
that.
I love that more than I think Ilove that more than the uh, the
hot tub, but it's it's, it'sclose it's close.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Yeah, so there you go .
This is my domes.
This is very cozy looking.
Yes, I think I would love.
I think the winter picture isjust.
It looks like this.
This is where I want to be allwinter long yeah, yeah, it's
very cozy and I'll just say,like on airbnb, there are a lot
of domes like dome houses.
I think it was like a trend.

(51:31):
I think it was like a trend tomake these in the 70s and my
guess is that they probably satfor years and then people bought
these things to rent out toAirbnb because they're just
really cool looking.
Yeah, in my research I ran intoa couple of domes, but this one
is awesome.
And, greg, I've talked to youabout this because we've been

(51:51):
talking about, like, where aresome places we can take long
weekends.
I want to visit Bend, oregon.
Yes, I've never been therebefore.
There's an official geo tourthere, so geocachers know what
that is, but it's a series ofgeocaches.
If you complete them all, youget a souvenir, you get a
geocoin.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
so maybe, craig, when we visit Bend, we'll need to
stay here, or we'll need to stayat my next one, because mine is
also in Bend Oregon or we stayat both next one, because mine
is also in Bend Oregon or we sayit both One, not at each.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Well, but there's a problem with mine but.
I'll get to that, but my finalone is in Bend, oregon.
It is the last Blockbustervideo rental store on the earth.
Really, now now I know you'renot american craig do you know
what blockbuster is right?

(52:47):
Blockbuster was in australiatoo, so oh, really it was that
big yeah that was worldwide yeah, well, netflix put them all out
of business except for one, andthere is one blockbuster left
in the world.
It is in Bend Oregon, and if youclick on the link, Craig yeah,
I am.
They have made this an Airbnb.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
So is it?
I've got questions, so manyquestions.
Is it a real store during theday?

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Yes, it's a real store during the day, like you
can go there and actually, craig, if you get a chance, and you
should put this in the shownotes.
A real store during the day?
Yes, it's a real store duringthe day, like you can go there
and actually craig, if you get achance.
We should, and you should putthis in the show notes.
There is a documentary aboutthis blockbuster.
It is called the lastblockbuster.
Yes, have you seen thisdocumentary?
I have.
Okay, you've seen it.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Yeah so I think they featured it in um.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
They featured this airbnb in the movie the
documentary, the lastblockbuster.
It's just like this woman fromben that just like is so proud
to keep this last blockbustergoing.
It is a real blockbuster.
If you go to the I went to thelast blockbusters uh website and
like on the front page it'slike new releases and they're

(53:56):
it's new releases like theystill rent out DVDs, but in
2020,.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
I think.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
here's my.
I didn't get all theinformation on this In
anticipation for the documentarythat was coming out.
They were like, I think, howcan we get more attention and
promotion for the movie?
So for like a weekend they musthave worked together with
Airbnb and they made it into anAirbnb where I just think it

(54:32):
looks like three people stayedthere.
There's only three reviews.
And they opened it up to localsto say and they turned it into
like a 1990s slash 1980s livingroom and you have a free run,
free reign at the snacks and thestore there's a couch and you
can walk up through the storeand find a movie.

(54:53):
So I don't believe you can walkup through the store and find a
movie.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
So I don't believe you can stay there anymore.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
No, it says sold out.
Yeah, sold out.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
But there is a request button, Josh.
There is a request button, soit's a possibility for the right
amount of money.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
then you probably could stay there again.
Scroll over the request button.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Oh, it's blocked out, there we go, don't request
anything.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
But the reason I put it on here is a I want to visit
the last blockbuster, I want tovisit bend, and now I, I'm gonna
, we're gonna, stay in the dome.
Now, yeah, we have to stay inthe dome, but we got to visit
the blockbuster, but it isactually an airbnb because it's
on the website yes, I don't andthere's no price because so it's
less than two hundred dollars.
It's free, exactly exactly,that's't check it out.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
So it's less than $200.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
It's free, I guess.
So Exactly, that's my final one.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
There you go.
That's your final one.
Well, my final one.
As I said, I've left my finalone to last.
The best one to last for mepersonally, and let me scroll
through.
It is the.
Again, it's themed in terms ofthe movies et know the Hobbit,
you know all that sort of style.
Click on this, josh, and have alook at this.
In Russell Vale, arkansas,which is just northwest of

(55:57):
Little Rock, only $171.
Now, for that price, what youget here is insanely good.
There's eight guests yes, up toeight guests.
Two bedrooms, all beds, onebathroom.
If you're a fan of anything ofthat, you know Tolkien theme,
lord of the Rings.
This place, everything isstunning, everything is
hand-carved wood, even everydoor.

(56:21):
Every door is a bigcircle-shaped door that you open
up and walk through a circle.
You know, if you're stayinghere, you are.
You are the Lord of the Rings.
If you stay here, you are theLord of those rings.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
I don't think you said what it was called.
I didn't.
The Hobbit House.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Yes, it's a.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Hobbit.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
House.
It's a Hobbit House, yeah, theHobbit House.
My favorite, though, is thatthere's a full-size
self-standing bath in thebathroom.
Wait a minute, self-standingbath in the bathroom.
Wait a minute.
Like, complete with a.
You know those timber benchesthat go across the old school
baths with the feet underneaththe bath.
This has got that timber bit ofwood so you can place your

(57:02):
books there, your reading table,you can put some candles, oh my
gosh, this is your dream cometrue.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
We know you love your baths.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Oh, I love a bath.
So there you go.
So that's my what.
What questions you have of thisone, josh?
Oh my gosh, I love.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
This is just beautiful.
This is just beautiful.
Yep, uh, yeah, of course, ifyou're a fan of lord of the
rings, even if you're not a fanof lord of the rings, this is so
unique.
The best part to me are thesedoors, gigantic doors that are
circles, and, oh my gosh, haveyou ever seen craig?
A longer, larger couch oh, Iknow in this.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
You can fit the whole cast of lord of the rings on
that sucker yeah, exactly, andit's a brown leather which
matches them perfectly with allthe timber work inside.
And then you've got the coffeetable in the front there as well
, which looks like literallyjust a shaved piece of, uh, of a
massive tree.
It's even got the live edges,they call it as well.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
So yeah, exactly whoever built this had a ton of
talent.
Exactly like beautiful muralspainted on the walls, and like
they're not just murals, they'relike like trees that are
sticking out.
I mean, our description is notdoing justice.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
No, and it will never do it justice for this.
I mean.
Even to think of the beddingitself, Josh, as well.
Every bed is made of actuallogs, like timber logs.
You know what I mean?
So it's timber logs, that's allit is.
So, yeah, every wall is alltimber walls, I mean.
But then again it's still gotthe nice things like LED screens

(58:35):
for TV, so it's still a nicearea to be in.
But to stay in a place likethis, but for me, apart from the
bath, yeah, it's 100% the doors, the doors.
For me, those big circle, hugedoors are just insane.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
For what this is and how amazingly beautiful it is.
I cannot believe it's only $171a night.
I know.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
That's my thought too .

Speaker 1 (58:59):
That's exactly my thought as well.
So my point here is often whenI'm thinking you know I take
trips or geocaching events theeasy route is to take to just
get the hotel.
That's the easy route and,depending if you're willing to
share, I get it.
Sometimes it's a cheaper routebut really, especially when you

(59:20):
are with other people, theAirbnb actually is a more unique
experience and it's a morecomfortable experience and it's
often cheaper because we'veexperienced the experiences.
Craig, it's like when we searchfor it, we usually search for,
you know, do the filters?
Two bedrooms, two beds, yeah,and you got a door and you know

(59:43):
you have a common area to behanging out in.
Yeah, it's a better, oftencheaper and a better deal.
And I think a lot of peopledon't think about, think even
they don't even consider stayingat airbnb because they're so in
.
This mindset of like, oh, wegot to get a hotel room exactly
ends up being typically, yeah,more expensive, uh, especially,

(01:00:04):
and you get.
You know, you get a what I calllike semi-privacy right,
exactly, if you want privacy inthe hotel, you got to get a
different room yeah, exactly,exactly right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
Um, the only thing I'll say as well is that people
need if you don't use airbnbthat much, just be careful,
because they do put charges ontop of, like, cleaning fee
charges and airbnb charges, sonothing, the full price like
anything in america.
Really, the full price isn'tthe listed price that you see.
So just to let you know inaustralia, there are some

(01:00:33):
downsides.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
Have you ever seen an airbnb where, like you know,
you charge?
They charge you like a cleaningfee, but but then you're like
the instructions.
To check out is like take outthe garbage, clean up the sink,
do all the dusting no dishes tobe left.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Yeah, that's the ones , exactly, exactly.
So there are good and bad andjosh, we might do another
episode later on down the trackas well.
In regards to bad Airbnb staysor something like that too.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Oh yeah, that would be fun.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Because we're not sponsored, so we can do whatever
we like.
Just saying Exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
And you know some people.
There's too much stuff onsocial media, I feel like, where
people are like and some oflet's be real, some of this is
fake where people are in anAirbnb and they're like I found
a camera.
Oh, yeah, it is so rare thatanything like that happens.
Yeah, and I believe a lot ofthose.

(01:01:25):
When you see them on a video orsomething like I found a camera
, I don't even believe they'rereal.
No, no, and it's just don'tpeople.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
people are good generally by generally yeah,
generally quite good I mean,let's be honest, generally good.
If if I was, if I was staying insomewhere like that, and they
that I saw a camera of some sort, I'd be like, uh, what are you
looking at this thing for?
I mean, you, number one, youneed a wide angle lens.
Just to get me all in, justsaying so, I don't know what
sort of lens you've beenmanaging, I'd be able to see a
wide angle lens, just sayingit'd be one of those uh 3d

(01:01:54):
lenses that you see on imax.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
But anyway, we're digressing, josh, uh, yeah I
want to say one more thing, yeah, yeah yeah, of course, when I
went through this whole list,you know a lot of people when
they're trying to decide shouldwe make this ufo of airbnb, or
you know and they think aboutwhere they live, for example,
and they think gosh Bend, oregon, is such a great place to live

(01:02:17):
and we should do an Airbnbbecause you know why, they're
proud of their town and that isa damn rare thing these days and
I can't think of a person moreproud of their town than those
that are Airbnb hosts.
So thank you to the hosts thathave hosted Josh someone did
message me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Someone did message me the other day and said Josh
didn't say that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
I know Now it's a mixed bag.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
It's a mixed bag.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
now I could say it.
I could not.
I like to keep you on theirtoes.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
In your defense, though, josh.
You didn't say it in thatparticular episode.
You didn't, but we had a bonusepisode for our patrons and you
said it in the bonus, so thereyou go, that's right so you
haven't missed out so no, if youdon't hear it in the real
episode, the patrons are hearingit exactly.
And so if people want to becomea patron, josh, how do they do
that?
Look at that for a segue yes,such a good segue.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
So truth corner we don't have any sponsors.
No, and I don't care.
No, it doesn't matter, becauseour sponsors are the people that
listen to this and weappreciate them so much, like so
many of our patrons, got thispodcast off the ground yeah,

(01:03:37):
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You're hearing our crisp,beautiful voices because the
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It's not cheap Another reasonI'm going behind the curtain
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(01:03:58):
Yeah, we have AI.
The robots help us master thesound, so it maximizes.
You have a little mastery thingfor my voice one for yours and
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We want we want this podcast tobe quality, yeah, so thank you

(01:04:18):
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Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
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For instance, like that persondid, they clicked a text message
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Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
And, as always, josh may your travels always, oh gosh
.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
I'll kick that in.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
I'll kick that in May .
Your travels always lead you tothe most unexpected and amazing
hidden Airbnb gems likesleeping in a potato around the
world and the USA.
See you next time.
Bye USA, see you next time.
Bye everybody.
See you bye.