A Custom Travel Guide
The Traveller's Diary: A bookstore quality guidebook written specifically for your CapeRace trip
It is our strong belief that responsible travel ultimately produces the best travel experience--that memorable heart-felt and life-changing travel experiences occur off the beaten path and with a sense of the unknown and discovery.
Based on the premise that the best travel experience occurs when travelers meet locals on their own accord, we wrote our guidebook in a way that changes the odds and nature of chance meetings. The ninety-five page Traveller’s Diary is our self-published, demand-printed bookstore-quality guidebook. We send travelers to the individuals that maintain a connection to community and the land, those individuals that preserve the wildness of the coast.
But there's a more important aspect of the guide that makes the trip great. We direct you to places with the hope you will bump into some of the more colourful characters that we know live or work in the area. For example, we recommend stopping for supplies in a small coastal town at the 100 year-old general store, but we know its real charm is as a hidden local drinking establishment run by a native octogenarian. You the traveller choose whether or not you need to stop for general store-type supplies, creating a unique chance meeting and cultural discovery opportunity. In addition, where possible, we attach a name to a recommended attraction with the expectation that you will seek out the person when you arrive at the site. The travel guide leads you to a situation, but it is up to you to make the exchange happen through the development of your own relationship. It's all by chance--which creates the true, meaningful experience.
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The "Traveller's Diary": Our key to sustainable, responsible travel
First we ask you 30 questions, then we edit the guidebook to match your personal travel style
Using new information technology we can professionally demand-print single copies of the travel guide. This has several impacts. First, it allows the travel guide to be updated in near-real-time. Shortly before your trip we present you with a thirty-question survey that is used to edit the guidebook. It is then demand-printed specifically for you and your partner's travel style. Second, as our customers meet more interesting people and visit more unique places, we use their feedback to seasonally evolve the guidebook to ensure the next traveller’s experience remains original, spontaneous, and true. Since the guidebook is fluid and customizable, we can move destinations and people in and out of "The Traveller's Diary", creating a less-concentrated, less intrusive traveler's footprint. It also serves to spread the economic benefits wider. This is our key to responsible, sustainable travel. The guidebook creates that sense of adventure sometimes lost in large-scale tourism, that opportunity to find one’s inner extrovert and truly connect and invest in a place on a micro and meaningful scale. And at days end, you return to your cozy coastal home, one that immerses you historically and literally in local communities.