Sensory Tourism: Senses and SenseScapes Encompassing Tourism Destinations

 Here is your chance to get the new book for your personal and/or school library.

Sensory Tourism: Senses and SenseScapes Encompassing Tourism Destinations: Jenkins PhD, Ian, Bristow, Robert S.: 9781800623583: Amazon.com: Books

Like in all forms of tourism inputs, sensory elements influence the experience in many ways.  Each sense may be highlighted for a particular type of tour, yet the other senses are always in the background and contribute to an opportunity for a multisensory event. For example, in culinary tourism, taste of a meal or the gustation may be in the forefront, yet the others can contribute to the enjoyment (or displeasure). Tasting unique cuisine is enhanced by the visual attractiveness of the setting, the tactile feeling of the food, the aroma lifting from the plate and the chatter in the setting from the kitchen.

November Hiking

 November is a great time for hikes. Except for hunters*, there are few bugs, and the temperatures are great.

Here some shots from AMC Noble View and map.

Take a hike.

* No hunting on Sunday's in Massachusetts, Yeah!

Election 2024

 Worth repeating.

What this election in 2024 is really about is Freedom.

The freedom NOT to be challenged by your race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin.

PLEASE VOTE.

Mr. Vampire (1985)

 Forget what you know about Vampires and watch 

Mr. Vampire (1985, 96 minutes) 

This film is a Color Horror/Comedy Film distributed by Golden Harvest.  This is the original hopping vampire film directed by Ricky Lau (Lau Chang Wei) who went on to direct three of the sequels before releasing the control of the theme to others.  It was produced by Sammo Hung.  Yes, you read that right, hopping vampires.  

This original title spawned several sequels and like many Hong Kong flicks, the titles were simply Mr. Vampire 2, 3 and you get the idea.  But the original is the best, just like the original Evil Dead is the best in my opinion.

Hard to find so enjoy this Trailor in the meantime.

Another plug for Shatter

 Two years ago, my brother's film Shatter came out.

Time for another Halloween film.

Watch it on Prime here or other steaming platforms.

House on Haunted Hill

 The great William Castle flick for your enjoyment this Halloween Season.

Watch House on Haunted Hill here.

On YouTube.

And since in Public Domain, easy to find on your streaming channels.

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Comet

 

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) is barely visible to the naked eye after sunset for the next week or two.  But point your cell phone camera to the west, and use "night" option. This graphic is from Sky & Telescope.

Some shots from last night across a soybean field looking west at 8 pm central time.

Details of photos are Samsung Camera, Model SM-G781U, F-Stop 1.8, 1/3 second, ISO-5000, Focal length 5 mm, Maximum aperture 1.69.  (this is for sixth picture, others are about the same).

That is a plane crossing the bottom of the last pic.