12 | May/June 2016
living
Mike and Shannon Lynch's Home in
Air Ranch is a destination right off the runway
BY REBECCA SWIBES AND ERIN PESUT
Take Offs
and Landings
Photography
by
Kiara
Love
Antigua, Rome, Pompeii, Greece
and Hawaii: these are just a few
of the beautiful places Mike and
Shannon Lynch have travelled to
together. From mountain biking in
Pompeii to private tours of Vatican
City, Mike and Shannon have made
their life together an adventure.
e try to travel each year to some
place different," they said. But
whether it's jet-setting to an exotic
city or to their beach house at Holden
Beach, they always land back at their fa-
vorite, and quite possibly most interest-
ing destination: home.
Just over two years ago, Mike and
Shannon decided it was time to down-
size and find a new place to call home.
"We were trying to downsize, but we
actually upsized," Shannon said laugh-
ing while standing in their master bed-
room. e walls around her are painted
an indigo-coastal blue, which they
didn't change once they moved in, and
from where she stands, the view of the
backyard outside the picture windows
is more like an oasis.
Just beyond the window is a set of
red hummingbird feeders, which Mike
says feeds "a whole squadron of dancing
hummingbirds." Beyond that, their in-
ground teal-blue saltwater pool, which
they leave open year-round is surround-
ed by a black-powder aluminum fence
