Many stories have been told about 9/11. Stories of loved ones lost, heroes sung, innocence lost. No one will forget where you were or what you were doing that fateful day, the day our lives changed forever. Rich and I were relatively new innkeepers at our first inn in North Conway, NH and had survived yet another busy summer season in the White Mountains. The dining room was full of guests enjoying breakfast and planning their adventures for the day when our neighbor called and...

Hurricane Irene came and Hurricane Irene went, but the High Pointe Inn,our Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast Inn,  remains fully functioning with all amenities and very little to show for all that wind save a few downed saplings that we wanted to get rid of anyway. Cape Cod as a whole did well also, and most beaches, restaurants, and local businesses were up and running in the gorgeous sunshine that we all awoke to on Monday morning.

Two brave couples braved the storm with us last Sunday: Nadia and Marco from Switzerland and...

Guests often asked us why/how we became innkeepers on Cape Cod. It’s a long story, too long for this missive at any rate. But an easier question to answer is why do we continue to be innkeepers? And the simple answer is that magic happens here.

To wit: We received an email message from some frequent guests yesterday that epitomize the joy we get from inn keeping. Over Memorial Day weekend this year, we had a couple from Scotland visiting for six nights of their honeymoon. We also had one of our...