“The Greyfield Inn is as elegant as it is famous. It is a genuine robber-baron mansion, after all, built in 1901 by the Carnegie family on Georgia’s Cumberland Island. Still in family hands, it has been a celebrated luxury hotel since the 1960s, collecting top honors from Conde Nast, Travel + Leisure and National Geographic. It reached A-list glory in 1996 when John F. Kennedy Jr. came here to get married. From the soap (French) to the soup (fantastic), the place is . . . fancy. So I felt a little funny arriving at Greyfield on a sweltering summer afternoon, dropping a sweat-soaked backpack and shedding the dirt and sand of a three-day camping trip on the spotless veranda…”
