Stay: Shasta Camper

Nashville, Tennessee
02.12.2014 | by: Meghan

A couple weeks ago, I met up with Taylor Bruce (the fellow behind the Wildsam field guides) for a coffee, and he tipped me off to the best new lodging option in Nashville, the city where he launched his first guide two years ago. Taylor describes the Wildsam series as guides that “bring to life what John Steinbeck describes as the ‘faraway joyous look’ that accompanies curiosity,” so it makes perfect sense that his accommodation recommendation was created by a local fiction writer (who, bringing us full circle, wrote an essay about his Tennessee-bred snake phobia for the Nashville Wildsam).

Author of Carry My Bones, J. Wes Yoder is lately doubling as an innkeeper of sorts. Only the inn is a 1962 Shasta camper he bought on eBay, parked in his leafy and secluded East Nashville backyard and gutted from top to bottom with his own hands. To appreciate it now — all clean lines, wood surfaces, white walls and no-fuss, modern detailing — it’s hard to imagine its ticky-tacky state when he bought it:  “It was red and white and had maybe 100 items of Budweiser paraphernalia; decals, strands of Bud light christmas lights, Budweiser curtains, and also an oil funnel in a closet with a tube running down through the floor to piss through,” says J. Wes, who also built a sweet, freestanding little bathhouse with a clawfoot tub, and tucked an outdoor shower into a private corner between the two.

Since he spends a lot of time at home writing fiction, he says it’s easy to run the place, too. “I’m a maid, a receptionist and a concierge, basically, and I like doing it,” he says. “I’ve been surprised by how strongly folks have responded to it, and can’t quite figure it out. I suppose it feels like camping, or conjures some happy memory of laying in a fort you made as a child. That’s one guess.”  There’s no internet or TV, and sometimes guests join him and his roommates for dinner in the garden. Other times, they end up dancing the night away inside at one of his parties. And so it goes staying with a guy who turned an old Budweiser shrine into a serene backyard retreat, you just never know what you’re going to get. I can’t imagine a better introduction to Nashville. Book it at airbnb.com.

[PHOTOS: All images by Laura Dart]

Share/Bookmark

10,344 Comments on “Stay: Shasta Camper”

  1. mail order pharmacies – drugs without a doctor s prescription best non prescription online pharmacies

     

  2. There’s definately a great deal to know about this subject.
    I really like all of the points you made.

     

  3. Bravo!

     

  4. Cool gay videos:
    http://www.aia.community/wiki/en/index.php?title=User:Wilfredo3125

     

  5. Trix – официальный сайт – Трикс играть онлайн раздача каждый день

     

  6. SMM Snap’ın sunduğu SMM Paneli gerçekten bir devrim. Tüm sosyal medya pazarlama gereksinimlerinizi karşılayabilirsiniz.

     

  7. Thank you admin!

     

  8. Very nice post. I just stumbled upon your weblog and wanted to say that I’ve really enjoyed browsing your blog posts.

    After all I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write
    again very soon!

     

  9. Nice post admin, keep it!

     

  10. nabp canadian pharmacy – prescription drugs without prior prescription express pharmacy

     

  11. Thanks, nice content! ip stresser

     

  12. Cool gay videos:
    http://byte-on.org.au/index.php/User:DomingoHobler7

     

  13. approved canadian pharmacies online drugs without a doctor s prescription canadian prescription pharmacy

     

  14. you’re in reality a excellent webmaster. The website loading pace
    is amazing. It sort of feels that you are doing any unique trick.
    Also, The contents are masterwork. you have performed a
    wonderful task in this subject!

     

  15. You actually revealed this perfectly.

     

  16. Now I am going to do my breakfast, after having my breakfast coming again to
    read other news.

     

  17. Why visitors still use to read news papers when in this technological world the
    whole thing is accessible on net?

     

  18. Hi, i think that i saw you visited my website so i
    came to “return the favor”.I’m attempting to find things to improve my website!I suppose its ok to use some of your ideas!!

     

  19. north canadian pharmacy: reliable online pharmacy online canadian pharcharmy

     

  20. cialis shipping buy Tadalafil 20mg generic cialis 20mg x 15 tabs

     

  21. This paragraph is really a nice one it helps new web people, who are wishing
    for blogging.

     

  22. Hi there, yes this article is genuinely pleasant and I have learned
    lot of things from it about blogging. thanks.

     

  23. Yenilikçi ilkesiyle tek smm paneli. Instagram ana sağlayıcısı, anlık servisler uygun fiyat garantisi farkı hissedin. Türkiye’nin en kaliteli, en ucuz smm paneli için doğru yerdesiniz. Garantili servislerimizle çalışmanın rahatlığına kavuşun.

     

  24. teşekkürler

     

  25. canadian pharmacy reviews – https://canadiandrugs.pro/#

     

  26. I am really impressed with your writing skills as well as with
    the layout on your blog. Is this a paid theme or did you modify it yourself?
    Anyway keep up the excellent quality writing, it’s rare to see a great
    blog like this one nowadays.

     

  27. When someone writes an article he/she maintains the
    plan of a user in his/her mind that how a user can be aware of it.
    So that’s why this post is outstdanding. Thanks!

     

  28. Thanks for some other excellent post. Where else may anyone get that kind
    of information in such a perfect means of writing?
    I have a presentation subsequent week, and I am on the look for such information.

     

  29. Wow, awesome blog layout! How long have you been blogging for?
    you made blogging look easy. The overall look of your website
    is magnificent, let alone the content!

     

  30. It’s truly very complex in this active life to listen news on Television, therefore I only use web for that reason,
    and get the most up-to-date information.

     

  31. Cheers! Plenty of stuff!

     

  32. Nice post. I used to be checking constantly this blog
    and I am inspired! Very helpful info specifically the final phase :
    ) I handle such information a lot. I used to be seeking this particular information for
    a very long time. Thank you and good luck.

     

  33. I have been browsing online greater than 3 hours as of
    late, yet I by no means found any interesting article like yours.
    It’s beautiful value sufficient for me. In my opinion, if all web owners and bloggers made excellent
    content material as you probably did, the net can be a lot more helpful than ever
    before.

     

  34. It’s a pity you don’t have a donate button! I’d without a doubt donate to
    this excellent blog! I suppose for now i’ll settle for book-marking and adding your RSS feed to my Google account.
    I look forward to brand new updates and will share this site with my Facebook group.
    Chat soon!

     

  35. Yes.. Nice

     

  36. I was able to find good information from your blog posts.

     

  37. Appreciate the recommendation. Will try it out.

     

  38. You said it very well..

     

  39. Great weblog right here! Additionally your site loads up fast!

    What web host are you the use of? Can I get your associate
    hyperlink to your host? I want my web site loaded up as quickly
    as yours lol

     

  40. Накрутка Twitch зрителей

     

  41. antalya web tasarım caglarbodrumlu.com

     

  42. Great article.

     

  43. Thank you for sharing and information.

     

  44. What i don’t realize is actually how you are no longer actually much
    more smartly-appreciated than you may be now. You are
    very intelligent. You realize thus considerably on the
    subject of this topic, produced me in my opinion imagine it
    from numerous various angles. Its like men and women are not fascinated unless
    it’s something to do with Girl gaga! Your own stuffs great.
    Always maintain it up!

     

Leave a Comment