Phil was great, he checked in with us and told us a bit of a history about the property and where are the trails, etc. Told us about what type of wild life we can expect around the place from bats to mountain lions. He also left us a bottle of wine from his vineyard. Overall the place was clean except under the beds. It was a lot of dirt, dust, crumbs, and some kind of animal scats. And, we did have to get rid of some spiders and other bugs from the bedrooms.
My husband and I and our friends brought our puppies with us: ours is a 7months Siberian husky and our friends is a 4 months old German Shepard mixed with Australian Kelpie. They really enjoyed the short time of running around off leash during daytime. However, they were too hot and always wanting to go inside to cool off, eating ice cubes, drinking lots of water, the temperature was between 100 - 110. Even early morning(7am - ish) was about 85-90 degrees so we couldn't really enjoy exploring the trails and hike around. At night would have been great but because of Phil great suggestion not to have them off leash because there are coyotes and mountain lions, etc. wildlife, we tied them out with their long leash and have them stay close to us. Because of them overheating issues and not able to enjoyably run around and hike around we had to cut our trip short and leave earlier.
Other than that we did have a great time being away from civilization even if it was for a very short time. We saw vouchers, heard and saw coyotes go "hunting", saw goats, wild ducks, and horses. We BBQ, we walked over to Phil's place to check out the pond, walked back to our place, (they are about 100-150 feet a part) played with our little fur babies, and just having great conversations.
Maybe fall or winter time would be better for people with puppy dogs( who have endless energy and wants to just run around and around... :)) to go and visit this place.
Thank you, Phil!