

What makes it fun is the opportunity to meet so many kind and interesting people from across the country and around the world. Of course, there are always challenges and more things to learn, but that’s what makes it interesting. But after thirteen years and serving over 15,000 guests, they’re starting to get this innkeeping thing figured out. It certainly hasn’t always been smooth sailing, what with no experience and a 160-year-old house to deal with.

Within four years, in the summer of 2002, they left their townhouse and jobs in Northern Virginia and bought this magnificent house in the shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains to become innkeepers. It was at that moment that they realized they had stumbled across their future careers and lifestyle. It was their first B&B experience and it ended up changing their lives.

While on their honeymoon in 1998, Orquida and Dan Ingraham had the pleasure of staying at a couple of very impressive bed & breakfast inns in Arizona and New Mexico.
