Raw wind, gusts to 30mph, rain then fat snow flakes sticking to the ground. Easy call to stay right here and drink tea and snack all day long. After a delicious breakfast Lisa gives us the tour of the main house, built in the 1840's, being slowly renovated but far from habitable. Note the brick columns. Their 5 year plan seems optimistic given its current condition. But this is their dream, to have a B&B and hiker hostel just 100 yards from the AT. They live and work near DC, but when guests are here one of them has to stay with them in the "cabbin" hostel (as spelled in the diary of the teenage daughter who watched Yankee troops march by and who helped keep them from stealing food). This small hostel was a originally a log structure, dating perhaps to the 1780's and probably a slave cabin, then bricked in the 1920's and now thoroughly renovated. And cosy and warm!
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