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Marine turned FBI agent turned security consultant Patty Haley stopped into the Trading Post for coffee in 2015 and left convinced that she should trade Alexandria for a fixer-upper on Main Street. Which means potential transplants need only hop into their Land Rover to get zipped around to the mountain houses with the best views and the shuttered 1800s storefronts with the most potential. He and Hitchcock also became real-estate agents. Thanks to his political past life, Yandura has a knack for finding grant money and connections within the federal government to help rural businesses get off the ground. They’d explain how their organization was a real support system, run by grownups who knew what they were doing. They’d tell recruits about the Wardensville Main Street Initiative, a group they started in order to lure other investors.

And if Yandura’s boisterous approach wasn’t their thing, maybe Hitchcock’s low-key drawl would hook them. They also got a pitch from Wardensville’s unofficial evangelists. Many who did so came away with more than lattes and artisanal soy candles. But now the Trading Post, with its prime spot at the entrance to town-plus the fire-orange cow statue the couple parked out front-beckoned those travelers to stop. The next stop over is Lost River, a mountainous enclave that’s long been popular with gay DC weekenders. They also bought the house next door, moved in, and raised a gay-pride flag out front.Īt the time, Wardensville, population 250, was a place Washington types mostly passed through. Hitchcock and Yandura bought it and turned it into the Lost River Trading Post, a hybrid coffee shop, art gallery, and home-goods store.

It started with an old feed store that came up for sale in 2013. It might sound rather formidable, here in a sleepy farm town with a church for every 50 residents: a duo who until recently were one of DC’s leading gay political power couples, turning a deep-red corner of Appalachia into a magnet for weekending Washingtonians? But it’s not so far-fetched once you get to know them. “They’ll probably still be camo because I think city folks will be like, ‘I got a camo cart!’ ” “Not one of these, but an electric one,” he yells. Road-trippers from DC, just two hours away, could stay for about $300 a night-ATV included.

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Yandura describes the eight modern, glass-box cabins he’s going to build, “like what you’d see in Dwell,” plus a lodge with a restaurant, maybe a spa.