Hear, hear!
I have visited this place and the article is correct; it offers a clear insight into Reagan the man. He could have built a mansion or a big lodge. Instead he enjoyed a little place that looks like something your gardener would live in. It doesn’t even have a guest bedroom. If you go to Google Earth and type “Reagan Ranch” you’ll see it high in the mountains.
It is simple, rustic, charming, modest, sturdy, and unassuming. There is literally a little one-story adobe house with a few small rooms. Reagan loved the place. It suited him. I think he spent 30% of his entire presidency there. He chopped wood. He rode his horse. He drove his old beat-up Jeep. He cleared brush. He mended wooden fences. I noticed in the tiny master bedroom two sets of cowboy boots next to the beside; one pair were his, one pair were Nancy’s. On the bedside tables were two leather-bound Bibles.
I was completely enchanted with this place; it was obviously a refuge for him and Nancy, and speaks volumes about the kind of man he was.