2025 Marks our 10 year anniversary of the establishment of Boone Yurts. This is Ellen of Sacred Grove Retreat in Gold Hill NC. Ellen was our first customer well before we had a chosen a business or really had decided that we could turn this into a business. It had taken well over a year to build this yurt many trials and tribulations and it couldn't have been possible if it weren't for many mentors along the way. So I had finally finished this yurt and it was time to temporarily set it up. I had chosen to do this over at my folks house down by the creek one of the flattest places you can find in western North Carolina. We had started putting together a temporary platform on Tuesday that week and by Thursday we had the platform finished and we had the yurt frame standing. Now looking back in time I really grateful that it happened but at the time I was very angry that at some point during Friday of the same week the local building inspector had been tipped off that there was a un permitted building being erected in a flood plain which we were well aware of the flood plain as a family due to the stream coming over its bank many times since my folks had owned the property. We had no intentions of keeping the yurt there we just wanted quickly set it up for a test fit. So going into Saturday with a little more intention and I must admit maybe a little bit of an "F" you attitude gave us great motivation to set up the rest of the yurt and have the whole structure, yurt and platform completely down like it never even happened on Monday. That's exactly what we did!! So now Ellen is still offering her yurt on Airbnb as a vacation rental 10 years later!