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“Put simply, the Ranch fosters mother/daughter escapes – without family baggage.”


















































                                                                                  Colorful Spanish-style guest rooms decorated
                                                                                  with Mexican arts and crafts. Above:  Guests
                                                                                  enjoy communal dining and leisure time.

          to see, where you’ll eat, who will pick up the check.    phone use is restricted to a pair of booths in the guests’ lounge.

         “Your hardest decisions here are which class to attend and which  “If you share a room with no internet access and no TV, you end
          treatment to get,” said Ranch fitness director Barry Shingle. “We   up with real quality time together,” said Deborah Szekely, who
          offer enough activities that there’s something that will appeal to   founded the Ranch in 1940 with her late husband, Hungarian
          everyone and every fitness level. You can plan certain activities   professor Edmond Szekely.
          together – but plan separate things, too. Things you do separately
          you can talk about later.”                           Szekely, who turned 92 this year, and is far from slowing down,
          And there’s plenty of opportunity for talk.          meets with Ranch guests most Monday evenings. Her daughter,
          Guests stay in handsome Mexican colonial-style villas that are   Sarah Livia Brightwood Szekely, is Ranch president and handles
          unplugged from the outside world – with no TVs or WiFi.  Cell   day-to-day operations.






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