tourism

The Guadalupe River was in surprisingly nice form last weekend.  A good friend, Jacob, and I put our kayaks in at the state park and floated the nine miles down to Bulverde in 3.5 hours.  We were

My life-long best friend Jay Root and I needed a weekend away from civilization. Only a four-hour drive from Boerne, Texas, we found the perfect spot.

We had a great time today tooling around the Hill Country.

In preparation for a new tourism-related project we'll be announcing soon at Digett, we've requested visitor and/or relocation packets from some forty or so Texas Hill Country towns. Two days later, I can tell you the results are going to be eye-opening. I have a few packets sitting on my desk in front of me right now, and all share a lot in common. First of all, they are practically all useless to a visitor. Secondly, they do little or nothing in the way of attempting to coax a visitor to actually visit. Third, they waste trees. Fourth, they waste advertising dollars. Fifth, they take too long to receive. Might this list go on...?

"It took us a while to realize we weren't in the business of lodging."

One might not expect to hear this from the owner of a beautiful old Bed & Breakfast in Bardstown, Kentucky. Rosemark Haven is a gorgeous old structure from the early 1800's. So how could it be that these people are not in the business of lodging?