The Bread Is In The Bed: How to make (more) money as a B&B or Guest House Innkeeper

Take an entertaining look behind-the-scenes at a “Damn Quaint” Vermont country inn as veteran innkeepers Glen and Ann Stanford skip the napkin folding advice and tell you how to make money in the Bed and Breakfast industry. You’ll get real world guidance on how to choose your property, and learn where to focus your efforts to stay profitable. If you think that it might be fun to run a nice B&B in the country someday, first read the War Stories from Innkeeping Hell. If you still buy a country inn after that, you can’t say that you weren’t warned!

We had large dining tables at the inn, and often times guests would be sitting with strangers for their first meal. One of the great ice breakers we used was to have guests tell each other "two truths and a lie" about themselves. It is food for thought and gave them an opportunity to tell strangers something bizarre about themselves.
 
So, here are my (Glen's) two truths and a lie:
 
1. I hiked the entire 2,180 miles of Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine.
2. I was a cheerleader for the New England Patriots.
3. I wrote and published TWO e-books in 21 days.
 
Now you are supposed to guess what one is the lie.
 
Easy, right?
 
My lie is that I only hiked 650 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to the middle of Virginia. It took about ten weeks (in two trips) to do the mileage, and we had an absolute blast doing it. There's probably (another) pretty funny book in there as well.
 
So yes, that means that I did indeed write TWO e-books in 21 days. I even wrote a book about it.
 
And yes, I was also a cheerleader for the Patriots. This was a gazillion years ago before Tom Brady, and our cheering was usually limited to "run-run-drop pass-punt."  I was a gymnast (trampoline), and the first Patriots cheerleaders had three corners of girls with big... pom poms, and one corner of gymnasts.
 
Bar trivia: what were the first NE Patriots Cheerleaders called? "The Spirits of New England"
 
The best thing about being a cheerleader (ok, other than hanging around with fifty hot tomatoes) was we had the BEST "seats" in the house. Each quarter the squads shift corners. So I got to watch every home game from four different on-field perspectives.
 
Well, this has been all about me since Ann is off shopping.  Let me make up two truths and a lie about her.
 
1. She was a professional ballet dancer in New York City
2. She was graduated from Harvard.
3. She was an Astronaut on the first mission to Mars.
 
Oops, out of SPACE; not enough room to tell you which one was the lie.