Hello

Well, we procrastinated long enough, but finally we have started the blog that many of you have asked us to do. Why so long - well, owning, running, and being the labor of our Bed & Breakfast has distracted us for a while. But, we finally bit the bullet and have joined the 21st century - which is somewhat embarrassing considering our backgrounds.

For any of you arriving here for the first time to visit us - we are Kipp and Beth, the proprietors of Abigail's Inn in Camden, ME - www.abigailsinn.com. We are a small Bed & Breakfast located on the Mid-Coast of Maine - in the picturesque town of Camden.

Back in 2004, we were those people some refer to as DINK's - double-income-no-kids. We lived in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. We held 'big' jobs. But, somewhere over too many glasses of wine one weekend in April of 2004 at Hillsborough Winery, we decided that we were - well - bored with the whole job, commute, ... So, we decided - time to make a change - was it to buy and old country home and remodel, was it to quit and travel, was it to start a home-flipping business, was it relocate overseas, ... Where did we end up ... Let's buy a B&B and quit the big city and the corporate life.

So that Spring and early Summer, we started looking - Cape Cod, mountains of Virginia, mountains of North Carolina, and Maine. Why these locations - just places that we'd been that had a left a favorable impression upon us. We looked online at first, then started visiting places. We got very interested in a B&B on Cape Cod, but Beth said let's go check out Maine. So we did. In planning the trip, a friend mentioned that we should check out Camden, Maine - so we included a side trip to Camden, Maine to visit Abigail's.

Well - in true guerrilla fashion - we left DC by car on Thursday night after work - drove until 2am, making Rhode Island where Beth's parents have a place. Got up at 6am the next morning and drove straight to Camden for a short visit on our way to the planned destination. All this being - right before July 4 weekend.

Upon arriving in Camden, we were immediately drawn in by the town and area. Here before us was this beautiful small town with a main street lined with stores, a harbor that opens on to the Penobscot Bay, and mountains (not tall by many people's standards - but for the East Coast of the US to have a mountain on the coast is a rarity). We had been to Maine before but not to Camden or even this far north - we had only made it as far as Booth Bay. So we were hooked on our first visit. We visited Abigail's, and well we were also hooked. It made our true destination an immediate after thought.

So after this whirl-wind visit, we came back 2 weeks later, put down a contract, closed on August 20, 2004 and the adventure began. Since then, we have had many wonderful guests and have learned quite a lot about how to run our own business and how to be your own best handy man/woman.

Welcome to our blog, Beth and Kipp
Come visit us at www.abigailsinn.com