Living in a city is stressful. Sometimes urbanites just need to get away from all the noise, people, and the daily grind.
That's the thinking behind Getaway, a micro-cabin startup launched out of the Harvard Innovation Lab.
In January, graduate students Jon Staff and Pete Davis, built Getaway's first three 160-square-foot houses in a wooded area outside Boston. In mid-July, the startup launched three more cabins in Catskill, a small woodland town a few hours north of New York City.
"We started out by asking ourselves, 'What are the most stressed out cities where people need to get away?' New York City was an obvious choice," Staff tells Tech Insider.
The exact locations of the homes are all top-secret, but within a two-hour train or drive. Priced at $99 a night, the homes are designed to be a convenient and affordable vacation for city folk.
I stayed overnight in a New York tiny home and brought my roommate, Kayla, along for the adventure. Here's what happened.
A day before our stay, Jon emailed me the exact location of the tiny home. To get there, we took a two-hour Amtrak train from Manhattan to Hudson, New York — a town next to Catskill.
Although Kayla and I left long before rush hour on a Friday, Penn Station was full of people. Sandwiched between commuters, we were ready for our getaway.
As we got further outside the city, the landscape transformed to long stretches of green.
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