Wes Horton owns the Red Oak Inn, the only local restaurant near the bridge.

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As general manager of the Red Lion Inn in Modesto, Calif.

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Located in a period building that once did duty as an engineering school, the Inn at the Market in Pike Place Market is a red-brick, boutique hotel.

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Baseball fans will find the new 175-room Residence Inn Fenway to be a great home base for Red Sox fans.

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Within yodelling distance is the cosy Golzernsee Restaurant and Gasthouse (with rooms from 52 francs, including breakfast), a weathered inn with red-checked curtains and wood walls, run by local Walti Jauch and his 10 sisters.

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