Happy New Year to you all out there! It is always startling to realize another year has passed. We are beginning a new era; it’s now the year 2010 … awesome! Out of my window the wind is blowing, snow has been pushed up into piles, and the streets are mostly clear, but not the [...]

October 22, 2009
It has been a while since I sat in front of my computer to write a blog. Why? Summers are filled with family visits to Germany, and cousins visiting us from there. Not to forget our grandchildren, who amused us for a week, stretching our tolerance physically as well as mentally by biking [...]

Walking through our woods in early morning, the air fresh, Chocolat my Weimaraner, sprinting after a scent of maybe a bobcat, deer, porcupine, or chipmunk, pointing at birds, I revel in my good fortune of living in Vermont; on Newfane Hill and toiling in my favorite town, Brattleboro.
Those walks clear my head. But often my [...]

After almost 30 years visiting Inns, giving seminars on Innkeeping, consulting in the transfer of hundreds of Inns and B&B’S, our commitment has not varied: we love the Inn business and are proud to be part of this hospitality niche. There is PAII and Select Registry to provide on-going training and updates on every imaginable [...]

You know what really fascinates me are the way people are living their lives.  Reinventing themselves and re-reinventing themselves, again and again! It is the spirit in some of us that doesn’t want to stay in the same position at a job, or in a status position that doesn’t allow us to move any further [...]

Here we are, after a 7 hour trek from Vermont, on a mountain top at 2100 feet. A pristine lake, deep and clear, in the middle of the town, with huge Victorian mansions built around the lake; some as early as 1850. The banks of mountain laurel and rhododendron garner the immediate path around the [...]

What a wonderful weekend and a gracious restful night at the Inn at Sunrise Point!  Not all of you need an excuse to travel; for us we had two reasons for our trip: to pick up our old, repainted and  restored  Brattleboro-made wooden chairs, vintage 1910 from the Windsor Chair Company in Lincolnville and  celebrating [...]

I hope that I am not boring you with my travel logs and my deep affection for the people that I meet along the road, mostly at Inns.

Want to know where else I have been? Georgia. I am not a Southern Girl but I love nature, and I love to find out what motivates anyone to seek out another line of business? Georgia?
We drove from the Arrowhead Inn in Durham NC to the Glen-Ella Springs Inn in Clarkesville, GA to visit [...]