AmericanPressTravelNews–December 3rd, Bob and Barb “On the Road Again” and “Stopping to Smell the Roses and fish scales”–Caught every one of these species in the Florida Keys and Costa Rica. Barb wanted a large lobster tail for dinner. She got it! Look, life is s breeze in the Florida Keys! Could I be wrong? Nah!
Looking back towards City of Wilmington from the Environmental Center.A comfortable and easy place to let your hair down!
AmericanPressTravelNews-November 8th, Wilmington, DE.–Bob and Barb “On The Road Again” and “Stopping to Smell the Roses” in Beautiful Wilmington, DE.-As we travel all across America, xthere are a few stand-out locations that are full of great amenities and very special cultural adventures for travelers and locals alike. Wilmington is very high on this list. So many great museums, so many fine restaurants and accommodations, such as the one we are enjoying right now-the DoubleTree by Hilton. When we arrived yesterday, we dropped off our bags and headed for DuPont Environmental Education Center (check them out on all social sites Delaware Nature : delanature.org/DEEC) a marsh and tidal paradise right under a major bird flyway.
Check-in to our comfortable and excellent hotel accommodations.We love to keep as fit as possible! This hotel has got you covered.Indoors and able to accommodate and keep you from the cold lap after lap.Their restaurant and bar allows you to stay where you are and enjoy a decent meal from breakfast through dinner!
Wetlands protection and education teach about the life’s blood of our world and our local environments.
Barb about to enter the vintage as well as newly remodeled Historic Boone Tavern Hotel & restaurant at Berea College in Berea, KY.Tim Glotzbach, Director of the Student Crafts Program showing a student made turned giant bowl.
WWW.AMERICANPRESSTRAVELNEWS.COM – Jan 25th, Berea College, KY.-Bob & Barb “On the Road Again” and “Stopping to Smell the Roses, We dined at the Historic Boone Tavern Restaurant, a place to to enjoy traditional and modern offerings of excellent cuisine, libations and a feeling that you’ve come home to family. Don’t remember when I felt this way before on any writing assignment, needing to researching the essences of a “place in time and space.” Berea founded in 1885 started and has grown to be a college of highly respected by it’s Alumni, professors, college staff, especially students and their families and friends. We spent two nights at Historic Boone Tavern Hotel and Restaurant. We visited all their crafts departments, ate dinner at their restaurant, met and interviewed students, instructors, the 500-acre farm Director, ate and purchased the makings of what has become a century old tradition of “Spoon Bread” with all or almost all ingredients produced on their working student operated farm. I guess what really shone through throughout our stay and experiences was the deep respect for the work ethic and cooperative nature of the peoples that made up the “Berea Experience.” Today Berea is know as the “Crafts Capital of Kentucky” and for very good reason, crafts in woodworking, pottery, broom making, farm-craft among others, are taught, created and sold in the many crafts shop both in Berea, state and nationwide.
Chicken Flakes in a Birds NestMaitre de brought us some of our dishes!!
We settled in comfortably in a great King bed, bath and beyond, and were spoiled rotten at the Tavern. Our waiter (student) brought us our Fried Green Tomato Salad, out of their farm gardens, a traditional dish offered here for many decades-” Chicken Flakes in a Birds Nest”and Barb’s opted for glazed salmon. We had a Bourbon, local wine, and a real Mint Julep, all KY. style. The special Souffle’ like Spoon Bread was fantastic and has been served here for more than 70-years, an Appalachian traditional recipe.
We finished, or they finished us off with a Pecan Pie with crust steeped in chocolate and a Caramel swirl and a nice big square of bread pudding. We slowly walked out for a longer walk around the block before heading up to our room for some hot showers. Go to Berea, visit the school and all its craft programs, stay at the Historic Boone Tavern, get spoiled at lunch or dinner, talk to some of the students, stop by at the nearby Kentucky Artisan Center to make a hand-made craft of a lifetime. I promise you will come away wishing as we did, to have gone to school there yourself. www.berea.com
Weavers ply their crafts at Berea’s new Incubator strip!Pecan pie at the Tavern!Salmon en glace’ Barb loved it, I did too!
