After much prodding, we have finally joined the 21st Facebook Century, and now have a page, photo albums, & tons of other kewl stuff on Facebook! And I now have 21 friends! One of them is M., a friend from high school- I think she may be my Only friend Read more…
This post is mostly about FOOD – in all it’s summer glory! For starters, my husband, Chef Dan, recently made the most amazing French demi-glace I have ever eaten in my life. A truly sublime thing of such delicious, rich intensity, it turned every mundane thing it touched into the Read more…
July 4th at the Elkhorn Inn! We hope you all had fun- we just wish it all hadn’t gone by so fast!! It seemed like you just got here and then you were all gone WAY too soon, and there were still ribs to smoke and beer to drink… and Read more…
Yes, this is the Final Installment of Elisse & Dan’s Excellent Asian Adventure! After this I Swear I will immediately go back to writing about life in Wild, Wonderful West Virginia- and there’s LOTS to catch up on! The previous three installments have been about our all-too-short stays in Korea, Read more…
This is the 3rd (& Penultimate) Installment of “Dan & Elisse’s Honeymoon Adventure”: Water puppets & trendy Hanoi; northern Vietnamese Villages, and a romantic Junk Cruise on Halong Bay… a trek into the Central Highlands: a dugout canoe down the Black River and my 49th Birthday Dinner Party in KonTum; Read more…
A week in Saigon: 8,000,000 motorcycles, fine pho, Tiger Beer & Snake Wine, floating down the Delta, fabulous shopping, & then the train to Hanoi! Because we spent over 3 weeks in Vietnam- & it was truly the focus of our Honeymoon Trip, (& because I took a stupefying number Read more…
Four nights in Japan: Geisha Goldstein & Samurai Dan eat sushi! We came back from Lowe’s this evening with a cherry tree, to plant at the Elkhorn Inn. After seeing the cherry and plum trees in flower in Kyoto I totally HAD to have a cherry tree at the Inn! Read more…
Week 1 – Korea: Kimchi, Dr. Fish, Soju, Makgoli, Jeju hunting, palaces, & the DMZ! We’re back from our long-planned, long-overdue, totally wonderful 5 week Honeymoon in Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, and I’m finally going to start posting a few of our many (2800!) photos, & some of our many Read more…
Just got back home from 24 days in Elkhart County, Indiana, where I was working for FEMA Community Relations on the disaster response/recovery operation for the January floods. We had the best little team in the universe (and the most tolerant, funny, and “FEMA Flexible”one, too!), and in 3 weeks Read more…
I am writing this Valentine’s Day Blog to my husband to let the “world” know how much I love Dan, truly the love of my life. Yes, this is the man who created our home (and the Elkhorn Inn) from, essentially, a pile of bricks & mud (a pretty darn Read more…