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by lindsay Sutton
they say that to truly get to know a country, you must get right in
there, close to its people. Perhaps one of the best ways to do that is
to be with them in their homes. So what better than the old-style
Bed and Breakfast accommodation, where you can travel at will, stay
comfortably in real-style homesteads, and fi nd out what makes folk tick.
A
nd, of course, each home is different. The the Great Wagon Road that took the early European settlers of the
particular stamp of each individual host is one of 1700s on their way south from the great entry ports of the Atlantic
the joys of staying with them in the place they call home. coast. After a long day of travel, it’s a positive delight to pull in at one
So it is in Maryland and Virginia, and so it is in the great capital of the many inns and homesteads that offer traditional hospitality in
city of Washington, DC. When you’re in the big city, I fi nd it quite this neck of the woods.
comforting to retreat at the end of the day into the warmth of a One such place is Cross Roads Inn at New Market, right in the
proper home or a small intimate inn. Maybe it’s part of that long- heart of the Shenandoah. It was built back in the 1920s for the
remembered pioneer spirit that made America what it is. honourable Claude N Hoover and his wife Mamie. The Victorian-
When you’re in the historic Shenandoah Valley, west of the Blue style white clapboard home is straight out of your ‘back-of-the-mind’
Ridge Mountains of Virginia, you can actually travel along what was picture of the real America.
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