This small but beautifully designed resort winds its way through colourful flowerbeds, and looks out over rice paddies.
For reasons of economy, the film was shot at Bandon Dunes, a golf resort in Oregon that looks more Scottish than much of Scotland, and Mike Keiser, owner of the resort, wound up feeding and housing the cast and crew free during the 20 days of shooting.
It still has only about 300 hotel rooms (more than half at the splashy new W resort), winding one-lane roads (with two-way SUV traffic), wild horses, and uncrowded white beaches, many of them in a protected wildlife reserve.
Like the character who goes to an Internet site, meets a stranger for a tryst at a Utah ski resort and winds up living as a quasi-Mormon, the book has a changeable focus but a real yearning for connection.
The Game Bar opens onto a large balcony that overlooks the resort's winding, waterfall-encrusted pool and hot tub and is ideal for post-golf schmoozing.
Aspen/Snowmass, which was the first major resort to use wind energy to power its chairlifts, installed a small hydropower turbine two years ago that turns the mountain's spring runoff into electricity.
He has vowed to stop further development of the resort if the wind farm goes ahead.
Other businesses, like a local ski resort, have installed wind turbines next to chair lifts.
Last Resort is a winding hillside sub-city made up of over 30 hand-built structures including a bell tower, a tea refinery, a boat known as Titanic II sailing in what looks like a miniature bayou and a toilet that uses worms instead of water to flush the shit away.
