Last year, a home decor store I seriously love- Wind & Weather – hosted a contest called “Share the Love”. I covet basically everything in their catalog, and at Hanukkah I bought several of their things for the Inn (see photos below), so with great hope I submitted the story of how Read more
Please click on the blue link below and check out our new video on The Elkhorn Inn’s “Dinner in the Dining Car” Weekend, May 23-25, 2014, with railroad author/historian James D. Porterfield! Please share the video and help us get the word out about this unique event! Elkhorn Inn & Theatre, Landgraff, WVToll-Free Read more
And now back, again to our road trip back from British Columbia, Canada to West Virginia! When I wrote the blogpost on Alberta, Canada, I neglected one short but Very Important stop: Vulcan, the Official Star Trek City of Canada! While not named for Mr. Spock’s home planet (the town was 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
Our first stop in Alberta was Edmonton, where we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express Downtown (on our hotel points :-), and thanks again to our GREAT AAA book, had a truly excellent “foodie” dinner of New Canadian Cuisine just a block away at the elegant Wildflower Restaurant: Peppercorn-Herb-Crusted Bison Tenderloin, with Read more
On day 6 of our 10 day drive from West Virginia to our guided hunt in British Columbia, we crossed the border into Canada at Portal, North Dakota/North Portal, Saskatchewan. From ezbordercrossing,.com we learned that Portal is a 24-hour border crossing, and as we had no clue how long the drive Read more
From the Waldorf to the Super 8! We did 8 of our 9 night trip from West Virginia to the hunting cabin in British Columbia, Canada on our accrued hotel points, and we stayed at variety of hotels including the Waldorf-Astoria, Holiday Inns, Super 8s, and Choice Hotels, and Read more
Our next day on the road we had a real “railroad day”- beginning and ending the day with trains! We found- by simply following road signs heading north out of Chicago- THE BEST RAILROAD MUEUM EVER: the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, IL http://www.irm.org/ As “railfans” with the Elkhorn Inn www.elkhorninnwv.com, Read more
As many of you know, I am a “sweeper” and contest-junkie. While my friends are playing Mafia Wars and Farmville at 2a.m. on Facebook, I am often entering sweeps and contests… LOTS of sweeps and contests! And while the downside is I get 1000+ emails a day (and you really Do Read more
After our three fab resort days in Eilat, we fortified ourselves at the truly amazing breakfast buffet (literally 101 dishes including Insalata Caprese, + a chef making smoked salmon roulades!) at the Leonardo Plaza Eilat, drove back to Beersheva, and caught the Israel Railways train north- all the way north, to Nahariyya! When I last took Read more