6 Great Days in #Colorado! Day 4: Fly-Fishing! Day 4 of our 6 great days in Colorado was a total treat for me: fly-fishing for trout on the Platte River! Our inn/home, the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre, in Landgraff, McDowell County, West Virginia, is right on Elkhorn Creek, which is Read more
Elkhorn Inn ATV Guests! ATVing from the Elkhorn Inn! ATVing home to the Elkhorn Inn… Believe it or not, one of the main reasons Dan and I chose to save and restore the historic “Coal Heritage Trail” building we would open as the Elkhorn Inn, and move to McDowell Co., Read more
In my previous post, I talked about the first “agritourism” or “ecotour” tour we did during out recent, month-long trip through Vietnam (thanks to Vietnam Central Coastal Tourism!): Wet Rice Farming with Water Buffalo, and how awesome it was! The second one, also with Jack Tran’s Ecotours, was Fishing and ‘Palm Read more
On Dec. 27, 2013, a Norfolk Southern train with five locomotives and 111 cars derailed near the Elkhorn Inn in Vivian, WV. It was headed from Bellevue, Ohio to Linwood, North Carolina;12 of the derailed cars were takers containing asphalt tar, two carried soybean oil, one grain, and one railroad cross Read more
We recently had an excellent 2-week Caribbean cruise on the Celebrity Eclipse– thanks to a GREAT “flash-sale” deal we got on CruCon! (Yes, we HIGHLY recommend CruCon! We’re in the hospitality business, and I do a LOT of ‘homework’, and so far The best deals we’ve been able to find Read more
This has been quite a week- in the very best way! As Inn-Keepers, it’s a wonderful thing when guests truly become friends, and that is what these last few weeks have been about! I’ll start with this weekend, when Tony “The Trout” Wheeler gave us a day’s fly-fishing lesson on Read more
It’s fun to play “tourist” at home! This past week Dan and I had a rather amazing little getaway- right here in southern WV! We got to go Ziplining through the WV forests at TreeTops Canopy Tours , learn to fly fish for trout with Bobby Bower of ProFishWV, have a Read more
It’s finally really and truly summer at the Elkhorn Inn- & it has even stopped raining! 😀 We’ve had a wonderful spring so far, with lots of great Railfan guests from places as far away as Florida & England (they love the “Pokey” in the UK, too!), & this weekend Read more