Mirage B&B (美海奇民宿)

Lots of people ask why Mirage isn't a translation of "Meihaiqi"… so where did it come from? Coming up with a name for this B&B was a real headache. Every name we liked was already on Google, and the rest were cheesy, like "Aegean Sea"… that one was my mom's pick, haha. My brother loves coffee. Once he asked the owner of a café downtown how the shop got its name, and the owner told a long, rambling story. That taught me a name needs a story! Then a friend happened to suggest to my brother that we call it "mirage"… my brother thought that sounded pretty good, but too ordinary, and the name also wasn't