"When you make what you think is a "wrong turn", your Inner Guidance System just recalculates your route, so there are no irreparable wrong turns. There are actually no wrong turns at all." Lola Jones
Cottage/Bunkhouse
The Cottage/Bunkhouse at Heavenly City View Ranch.
For 5-Day Silent Retreat, it's $300 per person.
Your stay is 6 nights, but more is possible.
Accomodates 3 women or three men, or your group of friends. Fully furnished with all you need.
It's great not to have to go anywhere during your retreat, and to soak up the vibrations at this wonderful ranch.
Breakfast supplies included with 5 Day retreats only. You cook your own breakfast, and clean up after yourself. Please leave it pretty clean. We do the linens when you check out.
- Breakfast groceries for the cottage are provided ONLY for the 5 Day Silent Intensive, which includes the other meals too.
- For the 1 Day and 1 1/2 Day Intensives, bring your own breakfast and other meal supplies. You'll be provided with lunch on the full day only, so the other meals are up to you - cook or go out.
Call us to reserve the cottage. 512-243-3832
Directions below.
You can book a private retreat/getaway here.
Rent it out for short periods for a private personal retreat or getaway.You can schedule private sessions for your visit and have a private intensive, one session each day for several days. You'll have contact with Lola only during your scheduled sessions.
You shop for your own groceries when you arrive, and cook and clean for yourself, or go out to eat.
$60 per person per night plus cost of sessions.
Sometimes we rent it out long term:
Our little guest house is on our ten acres of Heaven, in the country, but overlooking downtown Austin, Texas, and only 17 minutes to downtown.It's fully furnished and ready to live in, including dishes, linens, etc.
It's much like a roommate setup, since it's right next to our home, and you're sharing our property.
It's very private for you (and we are very private) and you may only rarely see us. We have silent spiritual retreats in our home/retreat center next door every few months, so you must be quiet, mellow, and not a partier.
It's like a country retreat cabin, and you get the country atmosphere only 17 minutes from downtown.
The main purpose for letting our guest house be occupied at all is to have someone VERY reliable with a lot of common sense to feed the horses, dogs, chickens, and ducks. We like someone being at the ranch while we travel. Animal care takes only 15-20 minutes per day. Must love animals, AND I must feel confident leaving the animals with you. I'll choose on this basis.
We need someone who does NOT travel a lot themselves, or who will always talk to us and plan around our travel.
Someone who is handy is a bonus, and you'd be paid extra for occasional ranch chores when we need it. We've never given a rent reduction for any of this, so please don't ask. People are delighted to get to live in this amazingly special country place so close to Austin.
You must be financially stable and always be on time, on the first, with your rent.
Late fee is $25 if rent is later than the third.
It's tiny but charming. Only 467 sq. ft. including the 2 cozy low-ceilinged lofts. Comfy single mattress included in one loft, or bring your own. The other loft is your closet.
Lofts are too low to stand up, but you can sit up on yur bed. It's cozy and people LOVE living here. It has GREAT feng shui and great vibes. It was built and decorated with love. Some have decorated it very lavishly.
Cook on the hotplate and in the small oven. Full size frig. Bring your own microwave.
Heat/AC works quickly, or let the breeze flow through. Get your own phone hooked up (jacks are there) or use cell.
There is a satellite TV dish from the last renter, but you have to pay for your own satellite if you want it, as we don't use it. Or get rabbit ears.
If you have a wireless laptop we have wifi. If not, you'd get your own service through your phone line.
Shower, no tub.
Walk the property, hang your hammock, share a garden with us, stargaze, hike the nearby greenbelt and creek, shop 10 minutes away at Southpark Meadows, go to downtown Austin 17 minutes away and play.
You can see the city from our hill. At night it's dark all around, except toward the city lights, which twinkle dramatically due north.
$570 per month includes all utilities
$450 deposit.
$1020 total move-in.
There is no lease. You or I can terminate the arrangement anytime if we're not happy, with 30 days notice.
You forfeit the deposit if your stay is less than 6 months, because of the work involved in re-renting it so soon.
We'd have to discuss dogs, since I have a dog.
Absolutely, positively, no cats.
You could maybe board a horse here at additional cost depending on how your horse is about respecting wire fences.
This is the cottage porch -- cottage on left, our house on the right. That window you see is always shuttered, and that room is rarely used, so it's private for you.
Here's the pond in spring with the
house and cottage in the far distance.
First, read this entire page.
Then check a map to see if you like the location and the drive distance.
Only then should you call 512-243-3832.
WE'LL SHOW IT or talk to you on the phone ONLY AFTER YOU'VE CHECKED OUT THE LOCATION and know it would work for you.
You must make an appointment in advance to see it.
NO unannounced drop-ins.
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Directions to City View Ranch: Allow 17 minutes from downtown in non-rush hour.
Print out and follow these directions exactly and it’s easy.
Use an internet map and you'll get lost.
From downtown Austin: We’re 5.1 miles from I35 at Wm. Cannon.
From S. I35, exit Wm. Cannon, and go east.
Go past Pleasant Valley Rd.
After Pleasant Valley you’ll take the 2nd right on Salt Springs.
Go to the end of Salt Springs and make a left onto Thaxton Rd.
Pay NO attention to street numbers until you get to our house.
After you’ve gone past the suburbs, you’re a minute away.
After the suburbs you just go up and down ONE HILL.
As Thaxton curves a hard right at Sassman, SLOW DOWN!!!!!!!!
We’re the 3rd house on the right, sitting way back off the street.
You’ll see 9112 Thaxton Rd. and Jones / Abedin on the mailbox.
Phone 243-3832.
More beautiful, relaxing route from Austin: It’s 6 miles from I 35 & Wm. Cannon. From I 35, go east on Wm. Cannon just 1/4 block.
Go R. on Bluff Springs, behind the HEB. Go a mile and a half approximately....
After the bridge, go L. on Nuckols Crossing (the sign is obscured by branches so slow down at the bridge!)
It becomes Thaxton. Pay NO attention to street numbers until you get to our house.
After you’ve gone past the suburbs, you’re a minute away.
After the suburbs you just go up and down ONE HILL.
As Thaxton curves a hard right at Sassman, SLOW DOWN!!!!!!!!
We’re the 3rd house on the right, sitting way back off the street.
You’ll see 9112 Thaxton Rd. and Jones /Abedin on the mailbox. Phone 243-3832.
Coming from Buda, Wimberley, San Marcos, and San Antonio, go north on I 35, and exit Slaughter (NOT Slaughter Overpass. It's north of that.)
Go down the feeder a bit and go R. on Slaughter. It ends at Old Lockhart.
Make a left on Old Lockhart but go slow and get ready to turn right at the next street.
Go right on Nuckols Crossing. It winds around a lot...... stay on it.
It becomes Thaxton. Pay NO attention to street numbers until you get to our house. The numbers are crazy, not in sequence.
Stay on Thaxton and go through and past the suburbs.
Go up and down one hill, and after the hard curve right at Sassman, slow down! We’re the third house on the right, sitting way back off the street.
You’ll see 9112 Thaxton Rd. and Jones / Abedin on the mailbox.
Lola Jones is a conduit for Pure Divine Grace/Light/Intelligence. You can learn to do what she does: resolve issues, initiate enlightenment, and transform lives. 