Fall tourism in Northeast?

Getting ready for my Saturday morning errands that includes listening to Car Talk, and I caught this news on WAMC website.  The article describes the anticipated traffic across the US and Canada border.  It reminds me of a casual conversation with someone it a store this week that raised the concern for the need of passports for her family to cross into Canada.  Four passports, the time and cost to acquire them was seen to be a deterrent to local cross border tourism.

While the exchange rate is still comparable between the US and Canada with $1.00 Canada equal $0.949 US, I wonder how much tourism is list due to the Passport requirement?

It would be a good thesis.

Exporting conch shells banned in TCI

Opps....I have exported Conch shells from TCI and Cayman Islands.  I am lucky I did this before the law changed.  Read this report from the Sands Resort:
http://www.thesandstc.com/blog/laws-regarding-the-exportation-of-conch-shells-from-the-turks-caicos-islands/

Here is a shot of a harvest back in 2011 off of Water Cay, TCI.  On a previous trip I saw a "wall of conch" that must have held a 1,000 shells!

Planetizen's Top 10 Websites - 2013

See the link for Planetizen's Top 10 Websites - 2013.  It represents the "annual list of the 10 best planning, design, and development websites represents some of the top online resources for news, information and research on the built environment."

I am sort of partial to Park Score.

Information is a valuable tool.

Virtual Tourism: Trek with Google Maps

Google continues to blow me away.  I know about street view, but now there is trail view.
See the link.

I wrote about how the Internet would create a virtual tourism experience and Google just raised the bar.

My paper, published in Tourism Geographies last century, can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616689908721311#.UgvAQrJlRcQ


Bristow, R. (1999). Commentary: Virtual tourism — the ultimate ecotourism?
Tourism Geographies,  Vol. 1, Iss. 2, pp. 219-225.

Life is good

1-Aug-13	16:06	San Jose - Costa Rica	Shipment picked up
1-Aug-13	19:49	San Jose - Costa Rica	Processed at San Jose - Costa Rica
1-Aug-13	20:48	San Jose - Costa Rica	Processed at San Jose - Costa Rica
1-Aug-13	20:51	San Jose - Costa Rica	Departed from DHL facility in San Jose - Costa Rica
1-Aug-13	21:17	San Jose - Costa Rica	Arrived at DHL facility in San Jose - Costa Rica
1-Aug-13	21:19	San Jose - Costa Rica	Processed at San Jose - Costa Rica
2-Aug-13	6:13	San Jose - Costa Rica	Departed from DHL facility in San Jose - Costa Rica
2-Aug-13	11:11	Miami, FL - USA	Arrived at DHL facility in Miami, FL - USA
2-Aug-13	11:13	Miami, FL - USA	Clearance processing complete at Miami, FL - USA
2-Aug-13	12:32	Miami, FL - USA	Processed at Miami, FL - USA
2-Aug-13	19:57	Miami, FL - USA	Processed at Miami, FL - USA
2-Aug-13	21:34	Miami, FL - USA	Departed from DHL facility in Miami, FL - USA
3-Aug-13	3:28	Cincinnati, OH - USA	Arrived at DHL facility in Cincinnati, OH - USA
3-Aug-13	3:31	Cincinnati, OH - USA	Processed at Cincinnati, OH - USA
4-Aug-13	12:38	Cincinnati, OH - USA	Processed at Cincinnati, OH - USA
4-Aug-13	21:35	Cincinnati, OH - USA	Departed from DHL facility in Cincinnati, OH - USA
5-Aug-13	7:53	West Hartford - USA	Scheduled for delivery
5-Aug-13	9:15	West Hartford - USA	With delivery courier
5-Aug-13	16:45	West Hartford - USA	Shipment delivered

and the question is ....

Streams which flow for only a part of the year are ________.
A hot spring that water is known as a ________.
Caves are found in most parts of the world where there are thick ________ deposits under the surface.
At its maximum extent, ice covered almost ________ of the Earth's land surface.
Hills rounded and sheared off by glacial erosion are called ________.
The maximum extent of a glacier is marked by a ________.
A huge boulder resting on a completely different type of bedrock in glacial zones is a(n) ________.
The largest scale among the following representative fractions is ________.
The main component of the lower atmosphere by total volume is ________.