Channel Bass Inn News Vol 1 - March 2009

Unbelievably we are beginning our 18th season as bed and breakfast innkeepers on our beautiful Eastern Shore of Virginia Island of Chincoteague. Many of you have known us since our debut in 1992, and we love and appreciate every one of you. Innkeeping is alot of work, and we do get tired sometimes, but all those layers are put back each day by the generosity of our guests' appreciation for everything we do, and we thank you so much for that.

We took some time in our off season to travel: In January we spent a couple of weeks up in Toronto, Canada visiting life-long friends of Barbara's (ex-Leeds). Along the way we stopped in Salamanca, NY, where we met up with our daughter Nina and her fiance Michael and where David managed to get in some beautiful skiing, and on the return journey visited family and friends in Pennsyslvania and Croton-on-Hudson, NY.

To warm up, we travelled down to Florida a week later to visit our old Chincoteague friends who have retired down there -- Richard, former innkeeper of the Year of the Horse Inn (sadly no longer in existence), who lives in St Augustine, and Chuck and Carol, former innkeepers of the Island Manor House, now happily retired to Sarasota! We make that trip each year and love every minute of it.

Barbara has just made travel plans to visit the UK and Holland and will be leaving March 14th for 9 days with her friend Debbie Deaton from Sonoma County, CA. Debbie stayed at the Channel Bass Inn as a first-time guest in February, 2004. This will be their second European trip in 18 months! So one never knows where a stay at the Channel Bass Inn will lead...........
David has elected to stay behind to dig in to many patiently-awaiting projects!
Hopefully Barbara will be able to get into the garden before her departure -- there's a lot to do. Those of you who have stayed with us before know how proud she is of her English garden and how wonderful it is to find a peaceful moment there, to enjoy an early morning cup of coffee, to read a book, or just to sit and reflect .......