Your Hosts Chuck & Angela Nolan

After spending nearly three years searching for their ideal bed and breakfast Chuck and Angela finally happened on the 1906 Pathway Inn in Americus.  It was love at first sight and everything they had been looking for.  The beautiful nearly one hundred year old house was stunning and elegant in style with stately columns, beautiful stained glass and handcrafted woodwork.  The small town of Americus, population 18,000, was just perfect.  It was so unlike many of the other towns they had looked at, here in Americus they found a vibrant downtown with thriving shops and businesses.  They had at last found their dream home and bed and breakfast.

The dream had started back when they were living in the Florida Keys.  After surviving Hurricane Andrew and the many lesser know storms that followed.  Chuck, a fishing guide and his wife Angela, the Controller for the concession in John Pennekamp State Park, decided it was time to leave the coast and head inland and away from the continuing threat of  Hurricanes.

At that time Chuck had lived in the Keys for more than twenty years.  He moved there in the late seventies after selling his maintenance business in Colorado Springs.  He lived on a 46' sailing boat and spent much time fishing and sailing off the Keys and in the Bahamas.  His love of fishing led him to get his Captains license and he began running a party fishing boat out of Holiday Isle in Islamorada.  That was what he was doing when he first met Angela.  She was living in England at the time and was visiting an old friend who lived in the Keys.  This friend introduced them to each other and it was not long before they fell in love and decided to get married.

Angela gave up her career as an Accountant, for a large shipping company in London, to join Chuck in Islamorada where they set up home.  A year later their son Christopher was born.  During this time Chuck had changed from off shore fishing and was now running a backcountry fishing business.  Once their son started preschool Angela began working at John Pennekamp State Park.  They were now both involved in tourism and had found something they loved doing, dealing with the public.  It was this love of helping people that led them to the new turn in their life and the move to find a bed and breakfast.

Now their lives revolve around the inn, school activities with their son and life in small town Americus.  Chuck runs the inn as a full time job, taking care of the guests, cooking breakfast and dealing with the unending maintenance of a 100 year old house.  He is on the board of directors for the Americus Tourism Council and is currently serving as their President.  Angela works as a Senior Financial Analyst for Habitat for Humanity who have their Administrative Headquarters in Americus.  She also takes care of the inns bookings, marketing (including building and maintaining their web site) and the day to day accounting.  They love the world of bed and breakfasts and have made many friends in the business.  They are happy to say that all of their guests have been wonderful, some have even been famous.  Among the famous guests who have stayed with them are senator and presidential candidate Jack Kemp, prisoner-of-war Rhonda Cornum, who was captured by Iraqis during the first Gulf War, popular music group Sixpence None the Richer, contemporary Christian singer Natalie Grant and the Christian musical group The Anointed.  Life running a bed and breakfast has been quite different from anything they have ever done before.  It can sometimes be very demanding with the need to be on duty 24/7 but it is always enjoyable.  They love pampering their guests and you only have to read the many thank you notes and messages in the room journals to see how much their guests appreciate this.