Posted by David Porter on July 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
When we were staying at The Grand Del Mar Resort in San Diego, we noticed that there were a fair number of pets enjoying the ammenties of this AAA Five-Diamond Resort right alongside their owners.
Now, we are not pet owners as we travel too much, and it just doesn’t seem fair to be away so much from man’s best friend.
However, for those not inclined to roam as much as we do, there are literally thousands of pet-friendly vacations, hotels, restaurants, hiking trails, airlines, etc.
BringFido.com seems to be a good place to begin your quest for a pet-friendly vacation.
Note: photograph is from the BringFido.com website. In fact, they have hundreds of dogs on vacation photographs. Many are a real hoot!
Posted by David Porter on July 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Roaming Boomers on-line travel magazine is visited by people in all 50 of our states.
I was doing a little study of our website visitors today, and I noticed that we have been visited by folks in every state of our union. The visitor map above helps me to understand our penetration in various areas. The darker the state, the more visitors we have from that state.
Not surprisingly, our largest penetration is in our home state of Arizona (30.95%), with California taking second place at (16.03%). Our least penetrated state is the state of North Dakota (1 visitor).
We are very thankful to all our visitors. Even the one person in North Dakota!
We promise to continue working hard to bring you an on-line travel magazine that is informative, educational, entertaining, and down the road even monetarily valuable.
Don’t keep us a secret, please tell one person today about our site.
Thanks!
Posted by David Porter on July 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Very early in the year, I was talking to a senior park ranger in Yosemite National Park regarding a potential Roaming Boomers visit.
His polite, but very quick answer was, “Dave, even if you were the New York Times Travel Editor, we are so busy, we simply couldn’t accommodate you.”
He went on to say that the NPR series on National Parks has stirred a renewed interest in the parks, and their reservations are WAY up.
This is also obviously the same in Yellowstone National Park as they have just set an all-time visitation record for the month of June:
“Nearly 700,000 visitors came to Yellowstone National Park during June. It marks the second record June in a row, and the third record June out of the last four years. Visitor numbers this June are 100,000 higher than those recorded in June 2008.
Visitor numbers were up at all four entrances when compared to year-ago levels, with double-digit increases reported through the East and Northeast Entrances.
The West Entrance remains the park’s busiest, with over 280,000 visitors recorded this June, compared to just over 261,000 a year ago.
Visitation to the park for the first six months of the year is over the one million mark, up 5.3 percent over the same period a year ago.
July is typically the park’s peak visitation month, followed by August, June, September, and May.
Yellowstone hosted a record number of visitors in 2009. Nearly 3.3 million people visited the world’s first national park last year, up 7.5% from 2008 and up 4.6% from the previous record of 3.15 million visitors set in 2007.”
It is very clear that The Roaming Boomers will have to do their visiting in the less busy shoulder seasons, and we are most happy to see our National Parks so busy.
Note: photograph of Yellowstone’s Castle Geyser is from the Yellowstone National Park’s website.
Posted by David Porter on July 12, 2010 · 1 Comment
Adam Richman, the Travel Channel’s star of Man v. Food recently filmed a “with a side of city” video in Scottsdale.
If your interested, Adam will be in Phoenix stuffing his face at the Ultimate Slider Challenge at Chompie’s on July 14th, 2010.
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Scottsdale CVB]
Posted by David Porter on July 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is a 4-story “big house” left by the ancient Hohokam Indians, and is also our nation’s first national monument. We visit this week, and will tell you the scoop about this eerie 600 year old monument. Stay tuned! (Creative Commons Photograph by Gregalicious on Flickr)
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