Todays Featured Poster • Cabo San Lucas

Cabo San Lucas. Near the tip of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula is one of the country’s most popular destinations. Great beaches, sport fishing, resorts, fantastic restaurants and the Eagle’s Hotel California is just a short drive up the coast. Featured on the poster is the iconic “Lands End” formations at sunset.

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The Map Room

The Intentional Travelers map collection

We love maps and have created a collection of modified maps to help navigate as we travel. We hope you’ll take advantage of our creations.

  • Hiking Trails & Urban Walks
  • Metro Systems And Public Transportation
  • Maps For Getting Around Featured Locations

THESE MAPS ARE FREE AND SAFE TO DOWNLOAD. CLICK ON ANY MAP TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF FILE.

Vancouver’s SkyTrain Metro. Great town with really good public transportation. Get from the international airport to Canada Place cruise terminal faster than a taxi for just a few dollars.

Seeing Budapest using public transportation – Budapest is a wonderful city with a remarkable public transportation system. Modern light rail and subways can take you all around the city.

Paris Metro – a simplified guide – The Paris Metro is world renowned and here we offer a simplified system map focused on the main tourist destinations.

The Trains of Metro Rome Rome is a large metropolitan area with commuter trains servicing the international airport, the historic center and the seaport of Civitavecchia. Using public transportation can save time and money.

Singapore Metro Map – Inexpensive, incredibly clean and efficient this city’s metro is one of the best in the world.

Bus routes on Maui, Hawaii – This island has an incredible public bus system that will take you around the whole island except up through the National Park.

Disney World Transportation Systems– Larger than New York’s Manhattan the Disney people have provided an efficient system to get you around that includes buses, boats, monorails and cable cars.

Key West Florida is an American original – Easy to get around on foot the heart of this town is a joy to explore.

Tourist Guide to Singapore bus routes – In addition to the Metro there is a modern fleet of mostly double-decker buses that can take you around the central city, along the coastal Marine Parade area to the airport

Public transportation Sydney Australia – A fantastic, modern city with a great public transportation system that includes regional trains, light rail and a fleet of ferries.

The Trails of Iguazu Falls Argentina This park has over 30 miles of trails and it’s important to know which ones are the most spectacular to get the most from your visit.

The New York subways are a fast way to see Manhattan and this map eliminates everything but the Manhattan stops and the locations of major sites and attractions.

Driving Oahu and the attractions – Oahu is an island where you need to drive. There are a couple of bus routes that service Honolulu and the Pearl Harbor area that are convenient if you are visiting on a cruise ship or staying near Honolulu.

Yellowstone National Park is the size of the state of Delaware and you should need a plan before you get there. Here are 5 major attractions along with driving routes.

  1. Midway Geyser Basin
  2. Old Faithful
  3. Mammoth Hot Springs
  4. Yellowstone Grand Canyon
  5. Upper Geyser Basin

Utah Driving Tour – Utah has the countries largest collection of National Parks along with some great state parks. Visit the article HERE.

The Acropolis in Athens – A 3D map providing an interesting perspective of the ancient Acropolis and the historic surrounding area.

Pompeii, Italy – A visitors map to the archeological site of the 2,000 year old Roman city of Pompeii.

The Forum in Rome – A 3D map of the ancient Roman Forum.

One day tour of Rome – A guide to hitting the major sites of Rome in just 8 hours on your own.

The Hong Kong Metro – A world class metro system that’s inexpensive, clean and covers most of the region.

Hiking Haleakalā National Park – Hiking trails on Maui’s great volcano.

Mendenhall Glacier – Hiking trails around the glacier and the glacial lake in the National Park outside Juneau Alaska.

Mount Rushmore National Monument – Great hiking trails around this unique national monument.

Florence, Italy – A great city for exploring on foot. This map features several walking tour routes in the fantastic city.

Savannah, Georgia – The grand old lady of the South, this is a beautifully laid out city, easy to walk with great sights.

Hiking near Old Faithful in Yellowstone – trails through the largest concentration of geo-thermal geysers anywhere in the world.

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Navigating on cellphones is great but even today often the best option is a paper map. Over the years we have collected maps while visiting places around the world and in planning trips. Often we have modified these maps before our trip to simplify understanding a place and how to best get around. Here you’ll find a collection of our modified maps covering major cities, metro transit systems, national parks and hiking trails. Please feel free to download and print these pdf files to help plan future trips. Clicking any map will set-up the pdf download.

Todays Featured Poster • Alesund, Norway

A popular port of call Alesund sits at the top of Norway’s Fjord country. This picturesque and historic town occupies several islands on the edge of the Atlantic, with the Sunnmøre Mountains as its backdrop.

These giclée prints are available in several sizes custom printed for each order on archival paper using fade resistant inks.

Join us as we visit historic treasures, natural wonders and vibrant cities set against backdrops that are endlessly changing and visually magnificent. Celebrate a world of travel experiences with these decorating accessories that are perfect for framing.

Haven’t Joined Us Yet? We Promise To Make It Worth Your While.

Todays Featured Poster • Český Krumlov

Český Krumlov is an incredibly beautiful town in southern Bohemia, and is the second most visited place in the Czech Republic. The historic center of the town was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1992.

These giclée prints are available in several sizes custom printed for each order on archival paper using fade resistant inks.

Join us as we visit historic treasures, natural wonders and vibrant cities set against backdrops that are endlessly changing and visually magnificent. Celebrate a world of travel experiences with these decorating accessories that are perfect for framing.

Haven’t Joined Us Yet? We Promise To Make It Worth Your While.

On Blogging 5, Internet Sales and Concerns

I’m more and more concerned about where the internet is taking us as a culture and what the end game might look like? Travel is still my escape for about four months a year and probably what keeps me semi-sane.

When I’m home I confess, I’ve become way to involved with the web. On an average day I’m online working on three websites (one’s an ecommerce site), four social media sites (facebook etc) and three market place shops (Etsy), not to mention following news and a few favorite websites. There have been a few episodes in the past that bothered me but at the. One was a semi-political instagram joke that I made that got me attacked. I still wish my usual posts would get just a fraction of that one posts traffic?

A Disturbing Incident

I operate an Etsy shop selling emergency ID cards. It isn’t a business since I only charge a few bucks and I usually only break even on a sale (material costs, postage, sales tax and Etsy fees and commission). I do it as a service inspired by an international incident that happened to friends of mine. There are several cards in the collection providing information on name, medical conditions, drugs, emergency contacts and information on living wills.

An average card order for one set costs $3.95 delivered and includes two cards and a self-laminating pouch. Each card is also available as a downloadable pdf.

After four years there have been no real problems except for two or three stupid people and they’re always the ones that have to write a horrific review. After hundreds and hundreds of sales I’m still rated at four and a half stars.

The Problem Card

In just the past two months one ID card is getting very strange attention. The card in question is a child’s emergency ID. It offers recommendations that it get attached like a luggage tag to diaper bags, car seats, bikes etc. It includes the usual information and space for contact information for mom and dad. That’s the problem!

Two months ago I got an email from someone saying they were a child (struck me as odd?) claiming to have two dads and could I modify my stock card to accommodate that? Since I could unlock the art, make some changes and print the card in maybe 15 minutes (remember – no profit) I responded that if they bought a card and immediately emailed me with the order number and the requested changes I would make the modification. I never got the order!

Since that time I have now received three more similar requests involving non-binary families. I’ve responded to each the same way and still haven’t received a single order. It’s less than four bucks and I’ve offered to do the custom work.

Think maybe it’s a trap of some sort – anybody have any ideas?

Interested in buying some ID cards visit my Etsy Shop by clicking HERE

Salvage Dawgs In Roanoke

We’ve been big fans of the show Salvage Dawgs for years. It ran from 2012 for eight years on HGTV and as we planned a trip up the Blue Ridge Mountains a year ago we had to make Roanoke a stop for an afternoon at their store Black Dog Salvage.

For all those years the Salvage Dawgs were dedicated to removing and saving architectural elements from homes, historical properties, old hospitals, factories and mills. every show is a fast-paced and fun treasure hunt. Black Dog Salvage is the retail outlet in Roanoke where the team reclaim, reuse, and repurpose all that architectural salvage.

If you find yourself on a mountain drive in Virginia, be sure you add a stop at Black Dog Salvage but plan on a few hours as it’s hard to leave. Catch “Salvage Dawgs” on Magnolia Network, Discovery +, Amazon, iTunes, and YouTube TV!

Black Dog Salvage

902 13th St SW, Roanoke, VA 24016
540-343-6200

At blackdogsalvage.com