1.   Greg and Julie had rented the Wolf Creek lodge, a contemporary log home that served as our base station for the trip.

2.   Handcrafted log homes are probably better at capturing the rustic feel of an authentic log cabin.

3.   He rails against the mansion builders of the resorts who build the biggest log homes only to stay in them a few weeks a year.

4.   In Basigochi, a hamlet of crude log homes several hours from Creel, horses struggled to pull wooden plows through hard-packed soil.

5.   Log homes, not coincidentally, have become a billion-dollar industry.

6.   Later, log homes were the dwelling of choice for the East Coast aristocrats building sprawling vacation homes in the Adirondacks.

7.   Mackie is such a smooth writer that he carries you away, and for several hours you will honestly believe you can build a log home.

8.   Most log homes have a great room with a loft.

9.   Tents and log homes were ultimately replaced by more permanent structures, and a city began to be nurtured, too.

10.   The Japanese economy would slow down a bit, and Japanese auto executives would stop ordering log homes from Oregon, or even Jeep Cherokees from Chrysler.