The Concierge Recommends...the book

When you check into a hotel and you are imagining all the places to go, things to see and restaurants to eat at and you ask for recommendations just believing that they will tell you the best place for what you have a taste for at the moment. Someone points you towards a leather covered book to see menus and read descriptions of each restaurant. and you think "oh look these are the places that they think we should go for dinner."

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Exciting news from Webbspun Ideas in Nashville

I will have some new services to offer very soon for groups and businesses so check back shortly after Christmas. These will be fun for local Nashvillians and visitors to our great city as well. I look forward to sharing this news and I look forward to an exciting 2010!

Advice on making reservations through "online reservation companies"

When making reservations through another company, just understand that it might be a little easier to deal directly with the hotel. Sometimes the rates are cheaper and if you need to make changes on your reservation, it is much easier to work with the hotel directly.

You will find some good bargains and some nice trips through these other companies and they often work without a glitch or a problem. Just check all sources before booking to insure you have the best possible way of dealing with problems while on the trip.

Hobo Film Festival is on tour

I always wanted to hop on a train and see the country in the true hobo way but I never did. I would love to see the film from Shawn Lukitsch and to see what he has to offer. I hope someone makes it to one of his showings and gives me a full review of the film.
~Corey aka C.S. Webbspun


Photo is from the New York Times

For nearly as long as rail lines have crisscrossed the country, there have been stories about wanderers covertly climbing aboard train cars and riding away from problems or speeding toward some glimmering promise on the horizon.

The paths of train hoppers, tramps, hobos and travelers, looking for work, adventure or merely free transportation, have been recorded in lyrics and in literature. Jack Kerouac, Jack London and John Steinbeck have written about them. They have populated the songs of Merle Haggard
and Woody Guthrie.

More recently, filmmakers have documented the experience of riding the rails across the country’s varied terrain. And some of those works were recently screened in a storefront community center in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, as part of a traveling cinematic exhibition called the Hobo Film Festival, which is progressing from state to state by way of a $200 Toyota station wagon driven by a 31-year-old train hopper from Asheville, N.C., named Shawn Lukitsch.

Read the entire story in the New York Times.

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Here are some hobo markings and what they mean