If you are proud American you buy yourself an Annual National Park pass. It’s the patriotic thing to do!
A pass is your ticket to more than 2,000 federal recreation sites. Each pass covers entrance fees at national parks and national wildlife refuges as well as standard amenity fees at national forests and grasslands, and at lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Reclamation. A pass covers entrance and standard amenity fees for a driver and all passengers in a personal vehicle at per vehicle fee areas (or up to four adults at sites that charge per person).
America, the beautiful. And yes you are indeed beautiful.
Olympia, WA is where I live and I love it. Mostly. Wish we would do more to welcome tourists from out of the area and have them to explore our beautiful Pacific Northwest while using our town as a basecamp for their explorations.
Followed my friend’s lead this weekend and went up to Staircase. The southern tip of the Olympic National Park and was blown away. People, this is an incredible place we live in.
Must engage more!
Another absolutely stunning video montage shot at Yosemite Valley. Incredible, this world of ours.
When can I go there?
A new app (the next Billion dollar idea?) is about to launch and in private-beta called Dcovery. A trip-planning app that helps you gather the cool spots you find while researching (googling) for places to visit for your upcoming trip.
Looks like a fun tool. Hope I get into the beta, and I will let you know more about it.
The Seattle waterfront is getting a 175-foot Ferris wheel on Pier 57. WOrk has just begun and it’s scheduled for completion by June.
Let’s pack the kids and go!
The Guardian:
Real Madrid have revealed plans to build a $1bn holiday resort in the United Arab Emirates that is due to open in January 2015. Here are some computer generated images showing what it is set to look like.
In London, of course. Just like their music, this is where it’s at.
Markus, check out this camper. Amazing!
I know of one more to include in that list.
Douglas renames the Olympics and I like it. But watch out Doug, George might steal it from you.
I love the Olympic Peninsula. But it’s always been a white spot on the map for me. A place of unknown trails, hidden gems I can never find and places that seem to far remote to discover.
Enter, Douglas Scott owner of Exotic Hikes and blogger. He takes the mystery, or rather the guess work out of the Peninsula and leaves the beautiful mystic in tact. I can’t wait for him to take me up there, to places I haven’t see and help me make my own, this beautiful piece of our world which is right in my backyard.
There is no excuse for why I like that movie, other then the fact that my brother Markus watched it like a million times and so I fell in love with it too.
Well, now I REALLY would like to see it again… internet, internet, can you help me out here?
Rick Steves at TEDxRainier on the value of travel. Just the first 90 seconds alone tore me up inside.
I.MUST. TRAVEL!
Both my brothers are skiing right now, in the Alps, of course. All I got is this cool collection of vintage ski posters… so cool… oh wait, there is a price on those… ouch.
Coudal speaks my language.
According to Wikipedia:
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people “traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes”
So, I suppose attracting people from Lacey to come to Olympia counts, but it certainly doesn’t fulfill my expectations of what tourism for our area should achieve, which is bringing new people to the area. People with money from “really out of town”, not just Lacey. Our local tourism organization fails to deliver, but like many other local organizations, feeding the paying members is more important then actually having a vision for the community.
Leavenworth, WA has one. The nutcracker museum. And they were invited to the Conan show.
This is how promoting tourism is done. Not going to pancake breakfasts, but inspiring the community to participate and think beyond their own plate, to stay in the metaphor of the pancake.
Can my town pull it off? Not with the current vision and leadership.
Liftopia looks pretty cool. It’s Orbitz for lift passes globally.
By the numbers, nationwide, not just in Washington State.
$606 billion - Amount of tourism revenue that America lost due to this decline.
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