By Greta Zeit Owner/Innkeeper of Backyard Garden Oasis Bed and Breakfast Inn Getting to Middletown is half the fun of your trip! The drive to Middletown, whether from the Bay Area, Sacramento or points North, is one of the most beautiful drives in the country. Middletown is in Northern California Wine Country. Lake County now hosts more than a dozen Wineries and thousands of […]
Read More»Written By: Craig & JoAnne Guderian of the Osmer D. Heritage Inn The first thing we noticed about Snowflake is that it doesn’t seem like a typical Arizona town. There is a definite English influence … houses built representing Victorian England? Hmm, curiosity gets the better of us. Snowflake, it must snow here, but ‘no’ the […]
Read More»Written by: Starlight Pines Bed & Breakfast Welcome to Flagstaff, Arizona! One of the World’s seven wonders is just around the corner from Flagstaff – The Grand Canyon! There are actually two routes to get to the Grand Canyon. One is the quicker one, 1 ¼ hours and not as scenic as the second route at […]
Read More»by Molly Alley for Diamond M Ranch B&B When my grandfather was born in a little Alaskan village, dogsledding to school wasn’t uncommon—it was expected. Today, I drop my children off to school in a mini-van (no dogsledding for me), and yet Alaska still remains shrouded in a kind of Northern mystique, unique in what it […]
Read More»From Maine to Michigan These Lighthouse Bed and Breakfasts Offer a Getaway with a Different View http://blog.brewsterhouse.com/2009/07/maine-lighthouses-accessible-treasure.html Romanticized in literature and film, lighthouses and the lifestyle surrounding them have always had a certain mystique. While most of our admiration for lighthouses may have been from a distance, it is possible to experience them firsthand by […]
Read More»With summer here, it’s time to pack up the kids and hit the road to visit family and friends! But where can you stay? Most hotels are so impersonal and hardly kid-friendly. Fear not! With the help of American Historic Inns (www.iloveInns.com), you can find lots of kid-friendly Bed and Breakfast inns. Here are six […]
Read More»“Dear Sarah and Bo, We had a great time at your bed and breakfast.” “Special thanks to Bo for greeting us so warmly.” Browsing through messages in the guest book, one can readily see that the Burnt Toast Inn is a partnership. Owner Sarah Okuyama handles the business end — reservations, accounting and food prep, while Bo […]
Read More»I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. – Joyce Kilmer (1913) Too true, plus you can’t stand under a poem and enjoy its shady boughs! Better yet, why not combine your tree-hugging travels with a night at a unique bed & breakfast/country inn? Here are a few suggestions from www.ILoveInns.com: […]
Read More»Vancouver is one of the most renowned cities in Canada and this may be attributed to the fact that the city is the very first metropolis visitors and tourists from the U.S-Canadian border encounter. The city has also been ranked as one of the most livable cities of the world and one of the most modern […]
Read More»Almost 160 years after gold was discovered in California you can still explore the original site now called Marshall’s Gold Discovery Historic Park in Coloma as well as tour the Gold Bug Mine, a once rich mother lode, and learn all the fascinating history at the El Dorado County Museum. And yet there is so […]
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