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Roanoke’s Black Lantern Inn Bed & Breakfast Excellent & Friendly Place to Stay

Chris and Jayne Andrews, new wonderful owners of the Black Lantern Inn
Breakfast was a healthy treat. Coffee tasted like “real” coffee, the true organic breakfast fruit plate was delicious, brioche was special, the apple egg dish was superb (her moms and grandma’s old delicious recipe) all in all a memorable and socially wonder experience talking and getting to know each other.

American Press Travel News–May 31st, Roanoke, VA.-Bob and Barb “On the Road Again” and “Stopping to Smell the Roses.” Barb and I love to stay in really wonderful mom and pop accommodations, and finding such is like picking up that silver dollar in a parking lot. No, not because these type of stop-overs are extremely rare, but finding just the right one may be if you go in “cold.” What we look for is personality, and real friendliness-people that like people. So when we were told by our hostess to the area in the guise of Convention and Visitors Bureau Media Specialist; Taylor Ricotta about this nice couple who recently purchased the Black Lantern Inn, who would enjoy inviting us to spend a couple of nights at their place while we worked on our VA. travel articles, we said “yes.”The Inn has 3-accommodation rooms. We were offered the entire 3rd floor called the “Skyline Room with en suite bathroom, king size bed, sofa, writing desk and a flat screen TV. Call for prices.  Rooms are $125 and up to less that $200 per night which includes breakfast for two. Great impeccable baths, fabulous urban surroundings and chirping birds off the porches, make this a memorable and relaxing interlude for any traveler and visitor to Roanoke, VA. There is a large amount of history to be able to explore in Roanoke. We honed in on railroading. The Museum of Transportation is a worthy visit. Replete with dozens of retired trains and transportation equipment, children of all ages from 4-100 would love this easily accessible museum.  The Black Lantern Inn is tops with us for a B&B. The people: Terrific! The rooms: Excellent! The breakfasts: Perfect! The Inn is located at 1526 Franklin Road SW in Roanoke, VA. 24016  WWW.BlackLanterninn.com 

STAY TUNED. MUCH MORE TO COME ABOUT OUR ADVENTURES IN VIRGINIA’S BLUE RIDGE, MUCH MORE!

Louisville! MATS Show Has Huge Attendance; Truckers Rule!

Aptravelnews-3/28/15-Bob last day at the MATS Show (Mid Atlantic Trucking Show) in Louisville, Ky. I flew in to help represent Click-It Hot group market their various size body and reusable hand warmers. Today is the last day and flying home tomorrow; miss my Barb and dog, Terry!  

Seems truckers have been taking to having instantly warm hands and body parts, as they start their day bringing America its goods from around the USA and the world. Also,when we have any ailment, often heat or cold compresses can ease the pain, reduce the swelling, keep our back pains to a minimum, elbows, heads, etc. When a trucker wakes up in the morning or heads out from any of his stops, the first thing he touches is usually quite cold -his door handle. If he forgot his gloves or not, his hands are cold. With the small hand warmer model, all he has to do is click-it hot and he has about a half hour hand warmer, starting at 130 degrees in less than 5-seconds.  The really neat thing about these products is; after use, and when he has the time, the user boils it for 5-minutes, the Click-It Hot warmer is regenerated for use and this can be done over and over again for years! Check it out at www.clickithot.com

Click-It Hot products warm every part of the body. One snap of the concave coin and the units big and smaller models give off 130-degrees in 5-seconds!
Click-It Hot products warm every part of the body. One snap of the concave coin and the units big and smaller models give off 130-degrees in 5-seconds!