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SPEARFISH Bed & BReakfast by Dawn Geertsema One evening, Rhonda and Bill Swenson were spending quality time together, having only been dating for six months. Bill turned to Rhonda and asked, “What do you think about a bed and breakfast?” Rhonda imagined going on a trip and spending time with him at one. “That sounds like fun,” she said.
Bill thought about the house he had just inherited, conceptualizing the Spearfish Bed & Breakfast. “Yeah, I think it’d be a good location.”
Today it has five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
Rhonda paused, her dreams of being pampered dashed. “Oh, you mean for the house? Yeah, it would be. It’d be a lot of work.”
“No, you do,” he said.
Outside of Spearfish, the 1920 house saw Bill and his brothers grow up. At the time, it was only a three-bedroom, one-bathroom house.
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“You cook?” Rhonda asked. He had never cooked for her.
“In three minutes’ time, I went from getting to go to a bed and breakfast to running one,” said Rhonda, laughing at the memory.
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