Both before and after my good news, Cara and I had a great time discovering Winston-Salem. We stayed at the Historic Brookstone Inn, originally built in 1837 and converted into a beautiful set of suites full of character, tons of ancient brick and massive lumber and generously sized – we loved it. It has a bit of a brick campus, lots of nooks and crannies and pretty much all ours, with the exception of the resident cat.