The last time Dan and I had a holiday was a great, 3-week road trip out to Colorado to go elk hunting almost exactly 2 years ago, which I wrote about on this blog… As luck would have it, I recently won us a trip back to Colorado from Southwest Read more
Chef Dan & I had a lovely evening last night (Aug. 27, 2022) at the J.Q. Dickenson Saltworks in Malden, West Virginia (Charleston), at their “BBQ & Bluegrass” event. There was live Bluegrass music by Kanawha Tradition, & a whole local hog was smoked by Chef Mike Moore of Uncle Read more
This is a story about growing etrogs in West Virginia… First, a bit about etrogs! An etrog (or esrog) is a special kind of citron that is used in celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in the fall. Sukkot is one of the Jewish “High Holidays”; it comes after Rosh Read more
This year’s garden wasn’t perfect, by any means, but the hot peppers- all of them in pots on the front patio of the Elkhorn Inn this year- did great! When October arrived, and frost was imminent, with the pepper plants still covered in peppers, as they always are, Dan did Read more
For several days on our Road Trip home to West Virginia we’d been having trouble finding Hilton brand hotels (that we could pay for with our HH points) that had an electric outlet outside for our freezer full of elk meat, and while we eventually found one each night, it Read more
The next day (12/13/20) of our 3-week Road Trip from West Virginia to Colorado and back, we went to the National Museum of WWII Aviation: https://www.worldwariiaviation.org/ in Colorado Springs, which I only learned about thanks to a hotel rack card, and took a tour of their aircraft restoration facility, as Read more
The other night I made the #Kansas Cocktail that was created for me by the owner of Casey’s Cowtown Steakhouse and Club in Dodge City, Kansas, with those AbFab, historic “Prickly Ash Bitters” from Boot Hill Distillery! When we arrived at Casey’s, I asked the owner if he had any Read more
Our freezer full of Yum-O elk, on December 8 we started our road trip back home to West Virginia, seeing a lot of Very beautiful Colorado countryside: We stopped first at Palisade (remember- I made Dan promise…), so we could get to at least a few of this town’s many Read more
Today (12/11/20), on our wonderful 3-week long Road Trip from WV to Colorado and back, was Gold Mine Day, and we drove to the historic (since 1875!) and operational Phoenix Gold Mine: https://www.phoenixgoldmine.com/, where we got a tour of the mine from Dave, the mine’s owner and operator, and I Read more
Our next stop on our Road Trip back home to West Virginia was infamous Dodge City, Kansas, where we checked into the Dodge City Hampton Inn https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/ddctyhx-hampton-suites-dodge-city/, again on our Hilton Honors points 🙂 When we asked about nearby restaurants, the check-in clerk suggested Casey’s Cow Town Club: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g38668-d458713-Reviews-Casey_s_Cowtown_Club-Dodge_City_Kansas.html for Read more