You think you’ve got housing troubles with your leaky skylight and that letter from Countrywide telling you no more money?

Well, consider doctor brothers Jonathan and Andrew Bourne who, as the New York Times reports, live 36 miles from their nearest neighbor (only about 12 miles from a road, as the snowmobile flies).

Oh, but wait, that’s how they want it. Turns out the Bournes (Jonathan’s an anesthesiologist, Andy’s a surgeon, both at Mammoth Hospital) took years to find a suitably remote site for a mountain cabin outside Mammoth Lakes.

A second house with no cell phone signal and probably no computers. I bet they even know how to play chess–and play it. Maybe they whittle.

Their 40 acres/no mule in the Glass Mountains–another California range you’ve never heard of–compares favorably, they say, to ski spots on North America, Europe and Russia.

I can’t confirm that–I don’t do things like ski–but their handbuilt log house is swell, and the pictures of their snow-covered mountains are breathtaking.

Reminds me–where’s my private Idaho?

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