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?
Beautiful.
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.
Been on a few of those growing up. Never that fast.
Go Pro-style footage from a single-pipe alpine coaster in Mieders, Austria. You reach the summit via a cable car and then sit on a small car with a brake lever and off you go. Having ridden it once using a little braking, I decided to try it a second time without using the brakes.
Here is the off-ride footage.
How about one of those for the Olympic Peninsula? Low-impact, cheap to build, lots of fun and great attraction?
from my childhood vacations then the gift shops. Or will I be disappointed when I finally get back to the Alps?
Focus, the German news magazine has a great slide show of speculator sightseeing attractions around the Alps in Europe. I’ve linked to some before. I am really fascinated with them and think something like that would be terrific for our city.
Alas, there is no vision in this town in regards to tourism, so don’t expect anything… ever.
The Holidays are almost here.
South Tyrol, Drei Zinnen, in the early mornings. Beautiful clip.
A list of Christmas markets from all over Europe. Great list, in case you’re visiting.
But Stuttgart is missing.
The Triple Crown is loosely defined as the summiting of Vancouver’s Seymour, Grouse and Cypress mountains in one effort. There’s no rule regarding in what order the climbs must be done, only that they have to be completed in one day.
The Waldseemüller map is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name “America”.