Joan & Jeff Stanford: CARING INNKEEPERS
We just returned from an extended vacation/holiday (our first in 45 years since beginning innkeeping here). We drove to Vancouver, B.C. to visit family, ferrying to Bowen Island for a [...]
Joan & Jeff Stanford: HUMAN TO HUMAN CONNECTION
Sometimes we don’t realize how important we are to some guests. We have been innkeeping long enough to remember when guests made reservations by phone. Of course, this was [...]
Jeff & Joan Stanford: FOREST REFLECTIONS
We often write about connecting to nature and making decisions to lessen our footprint. Doing this here – for example, our organic farming, landscaping with trees, even if they [...]
Jeff & Joan Stanford: This Coastal California inn might just change your life
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Jeff & Joan Stanford: AN APRIL WELCOME
Last week, during Spring Break, we hosted families enjoying time together. Some of our best reviews are from children. They leave us drawings and notes that we treasure. They [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Happy Holidays
It is the season of expectation and excitement. It is wonderful to see in the kids who are at the Inn. And the holidays are about more: sharing experiences [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Fall is Here (and Halloween is near)
Halloween is just a week away. And it is the beginning of the Holiday season. We love the longer nights, the coolness and the promise of more frequent rains. [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Finding Hope In Nature
Our hearts go out to the men, women, and children in the Ukraine caught in an unimaginable conflict. In this time of war as well as the darkness of [...]
The Art of Connection: Valentine’s Day 2022
Valentine's Day is a celebration of relationship, founded in love, a term that resists definition. Love is more than pheromones or the qualities of a partner's hair, their physique, their [...]