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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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