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 up the ladder, or whatever the reason a person says: now what? This is my life and where can I make my mark?

Inn-keeping is all about You:  setting the stage, creating the scene, executing to the minutest detail all that happens to give the “Guest” a wow experience. You and your spouse, or significant other toiling together; morning and night, learning to share, divide tasks and still speak with each other as you go to bed at night.  All of this is not easy, but it is your dream, and you get your reward when your guests take your hand and beam:  “what a great time we have had here, we will be back, you are the world’s best Inn-keepers, ever!”

Peter Glaubitz and his wife Susan were just that kind of Innkeepers.  After life in the corporate hospitality field with no more room at the top, they bought the Inn. They worked hard, bought the Inn on a shoe-string, and made it a success, even for a spell had their daughter participate. They did all the things that needed to be done. Did them the best of their abilities, always aware not to compromise in the quality with which they did things. Peter said recently “whenever we tried to do things on a shoestring, it never lasted, and before we knew it we had to redo it.  Well, we learned!”

But even after Inn-keeping, Peter went on… facilitated the opening of a local museum in Eagles Mere, in great detail: family pictures and verbal family history of Eagles Mere “a town the world passed by.” What a state of the art is this museum. Peter was elected to be a town father, but even that is not enough; he uses his free time to give advice, at the Sweet Shop, a little luncheonette and ice-cream parlor. And he is always ready to look over the shoulders of the present Innkeepers at the Eagles Mere Inn, gladly advise where he is asked for advice!

The greatest attribute is his commitment to the hospitality industry, that was his first love and he continues to strive and bring value by being a board member of the Professional Association of Innkeepers International (PAII).

My hat is off to a man, who knew what he loves to do, but was brave enough to reinvent his area of influence in a very individual way, and risk taking that chance! Bravo! Heide