Met interesting people at B & B!

This past Sunday, my wife and I were in Grand Rapids Minnesota to hear the Soweto Gospel Choir perform at the Reif Performing Center. We had taken accommodations at the Morning Glory Bed and Breakfast, a B&B that we have stayed at previously.
One of the benefits of staying at a B&B is that you get to meet a variety of travelers and visit over coffee and breakfast. You never know where the people who will be joining you hail from. This past weekend, a brother and sister who were celebrating a mid 70s birthday were with their spouses and were also going to the Sunday night performance. One couple was from Hibbing while the other was from Minneapolis.
The brother and sister had originally grown up in Bemidji but have travelled with their spouses across much of North America.
When we travelled to Vermont, we met a couple from Europe and another couple who had met in Korea. He had been in the US military and met and married his Korean born wife while he was stationed in Seoul. He had relatives in Vermont and the B&B was their nightly resting location while they went about visiting. The couple from Europe was much younger than us and their interest was biking and hiking around the New England states. Breakfast was always interesting as we talked about what we were going to do and what we had seen.
Last fall we spent two days in Little Rock Arkansas staying at the Baker House B&B. It was an old converted Victorian Mansion on the north side of the river. There we met a couple from California who were returning home staying at B&B’s across the country on a trip that had taken them from California to New York. The other couple was from Kansas City and were celebrating a wedding anniversary.
Often staying at B&B’s in the United States, one of the first questions that pop forth after introductions are and explanation of Canada’s health care system and how it works. Those questions have been more intense in the past few years with the Affordable Health Care act coming into play.
When you stay at a B&B for more than a night, you also hear of the other guest’s visits in the community with recommendations on places to visit and restaurants for evening meals. We have never been disappointed with any of the recommendations we have received.
The highlight of a stay at a B&B is always the breakfast. Each host puts forth their very best each morning. Everything is always from scratch. Cinnamon buns, quiche, egg bakes, waffles piled high with fruit, fresh juice fills the home with fragrant smells. I can’t ever think of a breakfast that has disappointed me. And every day the menu changes. Often guests have stayed at a B&B on several occasions and have helped prepare the meal with the owners.
You are left with the feeling that you are family as much as guests.

–Jim Cumming,
Publisher