Living Life out on a Limb

Tree houses are for getting away.

Kids get away from grownups so they can tell secrets and let their imaginations leap from the branches and soar.

Grownups get away from grownups, too, or at least grownup things.

"I come out here and lose all sense of time and purpose," says Rachel Fowlkes (Educ '84). "It's a great way to relax and get unplugged."

Her getaway is two-story tree house nestled in a copse of birches, hemlocks and oaks on her 120-acre farm south of Abingdon, where she works as executive director of the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center.

For whole article, visit http://www.uvamagazine.org/site/c.esJNK1PIJrH/b.4021569/?auid=3571816&knt...

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[plasticspine]

stop stealing our tax dollars bitch !! but that tree house is badass

[ElessarInvictus]

She is a very cool lady. :D Dreams are awesome especially when you can make them real.

[Kaylacutie19]

this is nice but do they have a lock........ lol

[zelmergobi]

Tree house mansion !!! amazing!!!

[DropThatSound]

Beautiful Treehouse might I add