Just a quick fun note from New Ulm. I’ll just paste the leading paragraph from an article in the local paper about how “Oktoberfest draws crowds”…
NEW ULM -Len and Sue Henkelman of Wausau, Wis., drove almost 300 miles to attend Oktoberfest this year in New Ulm.
“It’s just a good all around event. It’s just all in all – fun,” said Len Henkleman. “We saw it on the Internet and thought we’d come and take it in. It was well worth it.”
I work with a number of resorts and a couple chambers. I know that last summer was hard on a lot of folks because the price of gas kind of knocked the socks off potential visitors. Partially, the gas was killer and partially the gas is just one sign of rising cost of living.
This weekend I happened to have a conversation with other Brownie moms about how the Internet makes traveling easier. As the article above points out – it makes it easier to find out about events and cool things to visit. For another example, we found out about the Niagara Cave in Harmony, Minnesota from the Internet – we’re going to visit it over MEA. The Internet is a great promotional tool.
The second way the Internet helps is that I have found a hotel with a pool and broadband. So the kids can swim and I can work for at least part of the vacation. If I couldn’t get online, we couldn’t go. The other Brownie moms added that technology means we never get away – but I don’t feel that way. Sure I’m still tethered to work – but the chain is a lot longer and I like what I do – so truthfully I’d miss it. Also I couldn’t really enjoy 3 days away if I was thinking about the email piling up.
So in my quest to find the broadband killer app – planning and deploying a vacation is today’s winner. (Sorry the article didn’t come out last week; the Oktoberfest is over but New Ulm is still a great place to visit!)
