Owner/Hosts:
David Beers & Diana Ohlson
Welcome to Our Home...The Silver River Adobe Inn is a place of rustic elegance that overlooks the confluence of the San Juan and La Plata rivers. Each room has its own private entrance and private bath, and two rooms open out to patios embraced by large cottonwood trees along the banks of the riverine nature reserve. We also offer a newly renovated cottage located on the hill overlooking the rivers.
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The main building of the Silver River Adobe Inn is a contemporary example of the traditional architecture of Northern New Mexico, offering elements of luxury with the organic texture of exposed adobes and rough sawn timbers. This building rests on a sandstone cliff well above the flood zone of the rivers, nestled among the lush natural vegetation and bird-life characteristic of major rivers in this high desert region. About half of all New Mexico's surface flowing waters pass in front of our windows, from which one also experiences the long view of sunsets over the river and down the valley.
An eclectic library creates an intellectual backdrop for the "Salon" style breakfast conversations. Your hosts, David Beers and Diana Ohlson, are pleased to offer advice on travel routes, local events, places to visit and dining in the Four Corners.
Massage therapy in-house
Your host Diana Ohlson is an experienced licensed medical massage therapist. You may choose from the following types of massage modalities: Swedish; Shiatsu; Tui-Na; Polarity; Craniosacral. Massage rate is $50.00 per hour. Booking your massage therapy session at the time you book your B&B reservation will be important to insure you of the best therapy time in conjunction with your travel schedule.
All rooms have private baths and private entrances.
Our Stories
Diana brings to the Silver River Adobe Inn her background in history, as a local community college teacher and as the founding curator/director of the Farmington Museum. Her interests in travel includes her childhood journey to Australia aboard ship and delightful years at Fintona, a private girls school in Melbourne, and later living as a young mother for several years in Germany and Belgium. As an interfaith minister, Diana enjoys officiating at wedding ceremonies and other rites of passage.
David shares with Diana a Pacific connection, as he was born in Hawaii, spent his boyhood in Farmington, then out to California for high school and college education. His career included extensive travel throughout the United States as part of Stanford Research Institute's national studies of innovative education programs, and work throughout the Four Corners as part of Indian Head Start.
We are energetic grandparents of five young ones, who encourage our travel in an arc from Denver to Steamboat Springs to Las Vegas and flights to Alaska. And since opening our Bed and Breakfast in 1989 we have delighted in learning about other parts of the world from our guests.
We are both intensely curious about how the world is put together, and we both read widely. Our principal topics of conversation at breakfast are led by our guests interests, and often we find ourselves learning more about regional history, anthropology, the dynamics of personality, families, children, poetry, the soul's path and healing, living gently on the earth, and ever more wonders.
In 2009 Diana rode a bicycle from San Diego, California, to Saint Augustine, Florida, while David drove the SAG vehicle. David is one who likes to walk and camp in natural settings, whereas Diana prefers to move fast, focused on a specific goal for each day’s travel. The cross country bicycle trip of 3500 miles in 100 days turned out to be an inspired invention for each of us to meet our travel preferences. Diana was able to indulge her passion to go, go, go on her bicycle at a pace which allowed David to amble, and we would meet up satisfied to camp at the end of each day. This venture was inspired as a fund raising event for a transitional shelter for women and their children located in Farmington. More long distance bicycle rides are on the wish list.
Explore the mystery of the Southwest and the stories of Indian Country. We are members Bed and Breakfast.com and the Professional Association of International Innkeepers plus the Green Hotels Association.
Links:
BedandBreakfast.com
RezOvation
Green Hotels
Professional Association of Inn Keepers
Chaco Canyon National Park
Aztec Ruins National Park
Mesa Verde
Grand Canyon
Farmington Chamber of Commerce
Farmington Convention and Visitors Bureau
Memberships & Organizations
| Diana and David are members of the following: |
| PAII (1-800-468-7244) |
| Bed & Breakfast.com |
| Green Hotels |
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Telephone:
(505) 325-8219
Toll Free: (800) 382-9251
E-mail: reservations@silveradobe.com
