Orientation Guide

🚗 Parking

Please follow signs and Respect Neighborhood Sovereignty.

Where to Park

1. First choice: Gravel lot on the right when you enter the gate (if not full)
2. Second choice: Across the street, past two houses to the left, facing the highway
3. Overflow: Frontage road (turn left before highway), park to the right of "no parking" signs (~5 min walk)

🏠 House Rules

Food & Drink Policy

• NO MEAT inside the house – You can store meat in the doghouse refrigerator (not garage) and cook it outside
• NO ALCOHOL (unless it's your wedding)
• Bring healthy food to share; include vegetarian options
• Bring a water bottle – We have 3 filtered water dispensers. Don't bring plastic water bottles. Bottles to borrow are above the oven.

Keeping Things Tidy

• Don't leave bags or items on Living Room or Kitchen counters – stash in the dining room
• Don't leave beverage cans, food items, or random stuff in the living room
• Clean up immediately after yourself
• Can't find something? Check the "Scolding Mess Box" out back

Bathroom Etiquette

• Use the Outhouse! There's a full bathroom with hot water shower in the Outhouse in the front yard – it's amazing and less crowded. Please use it when possible.
• Toilets: Only toilet paper goes in toilets. Nothing else. You will wreck things.

📶 Wifi & Music

Wifi

There are other wifi networks, but this is the only one that works with Sonos.

Playing Music

Play great music! Use Spotify Connect or the "Sonos S1" app while on Black Rock City wifi.

🧖 Spa & Amenities

Sauna

Please help yourself to a sauna experience! It's easy to turn on and takes 20–40 minutes to heat up. There is also an infrared heater on the ceiling.

The sauna features the world's best sauna sound system (until proven otherwise). This is controlled in the cabinet behind the sauna, and then on Sonos.

Swim Spa

• Shower first if you're sweaty – the shower is behind the swim spa (there's also a hot water shower in the Outhouse in the front yard)
• Don't adjust the temperature – it takes a very long time to change, so it won't matter anyway
• Close the cover when you're not using it

Cold Plunge

The cold plunge is always ready to go. Shower first if you're sweaty. Close the cover when finished.

Phone Charging

Charging stations are available throughout the house and outside if you look around.

🦙 Alpaca & Pets

Alpaca Etiquette

• DO NOT call them "Llamas" – They look sweet, but if they hear you call them "Llama", they will likely pull a knife and take you out – quick and silent.
• Don't stare at them while eating meat outside

Dogs & Other Pets

• Don't let your dog enter the Alpaca domain in the back – no matter how special they are
• Tie dogs up in the front
• Don't leave pets unattended anywhere on the property if not tied
• Don't bring animals into the house

🔍 Be Resourceful - Don't Ask Until You Have Looked

Please look around and figure things out on your own whenever you need something:

• Read the labels
• Read the website
• Try to guess where things are before asking someone
• Don't ask where the spoons are if you haven't looked

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