The Delicate Matter of Traveling with Other Couples

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. Va. — I enjoy a good gimmick. The Bavarian Inn, which is designed to evoke a small village in southern Germany, is as good as a gimmick gets. It works because we’re in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. If this were Las Vegas, the gimmick would be too much, go too far. It’d be a hotel-casino called “Munich, Munich.”