UPDATE, JULY 17, 2013: This promotion is now closed; we had a great response to our question. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback to us. We’ll be in touch! Our first Boy Scout reservation! YES! Direct economic impact. One of the groups helping run the 2013 Jamboree booked 2 cabins for their VIP’s. This is […]
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Consumed, Devoured, Hit by a Train, Chewed Up, Spit Out, and Left for Dead
And that was from the family reunion, not the “Derecho” storm! About the derecho – we suffered no damage from the storm at the Cabins or our home. Our neighbors and friends were not so lucky. We were without power for 8 days, but everything is back to “normal”. The family reunion was a huge […]
How Not To Have The Family Reunion From Hell: Part 2
Panic has set in. The last-minute barrage of questions is in full frenzy. This is not unusual behavior; it’s just that this time, the zeal my family is demonstrating at this point in the planning has caught me off guard. I don’t know why, because they do everything like this: OVERBOARD. What you need to […]
How Not to Have “The Family Reunion from HELL!”
I am planning for my family to arrive in June. This is a true story and is happening as we speak. Okay, we are not technically speaking, but you know what I mean. Or did you? That is the really challenge at the heart of a family reunion: communication. Even though everyone in my family […]
4 Reasons You Shouldn’t Choose Us for Your Corporate Meeting (And 5 Why You Should!)
Corporate meetings. Everyone has them from time to time. Not many actually enjoy them. Lots of time sitting in a chair, plenty of artificial light and often terrible catered-in food. Face it, the thought of another corporate meeting is painful. Know what’s even more painful? Planning them. The logistics, the meeting space, the food, activities. […]
The Most Important Thing About Birding (Hint: It’s Not Birds)
The most important thing about a birding trip is not the birds. Really. Here’s why: All kinds of things can influence the birds you see and hear. So let’s focus on stuff that really matters on a field trip: the people. It’s like soup; too much of one ingredient is boring. I love time alone […]
How To Accidently Get Into The Cabin Rental Business
15 years is a long time. I know, because I am old. After the first 10 years of building the business and the cabins from the ground up, I started to notice I was not being as good a host as I once was. Go figure- I was burned out! I’m not complaining. I just […]
How We Accidently Built The Best Cabins In The New River Gorge
Well, I never would have guessed I’d be living here in West Virginia. Really. I was too cool (obviously!), and West Virginia is, well, ah, let’s see… how do I put this… it has some stigmas attached to it, and some of them are true. Two decades ago, I wasn’t in the mountain cabin rental […]
The (Secret) Green Story Of Opossum Creek Retreat
Here in the New River Gorge, our rental cabins were green before green was cool. I’ve been called a tree huggin’ Hippy. I don’t know about the hippy part, but, yes, I’ve hugged a tree. Okay, many trees. I have also cut them down. It feels great to see it falling right where you had hoped, […]
