Hi.
I'm Fred, the Robin Leach of haunted castles, alien landing fields,
mystical
monoliths and really cool bars. You have
just stumbled into the only travel Website on the Internet that
takes a “Twilight Zone” approach to vacation planning.
This
is how it works: First, dim the lights.
Stare
deeply into your computer screen.
Then
imagine you are in the black-and-white world of early 1960s television,
sitting in a AAA travel office filled with happy brochures on Disneyland,
the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas.
Suddenly,
you realize that the terse, thin-lipped agent marking up your TripTik
is actually Rod Serling, host of “The Twilight Zone” and one of
modern society's first supernatural tour guides.
In
your head, you hear his clipped, dramatically inflected words offering
guidance in your search for vacation ideas that don't center on
theme parks, relatives or all-inclusive resorts:
“You're
traveling through another dimension - a dimension not only of sight
and sound, but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries
are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead. Your next stop
…Alton, Illinois.”
Or
Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Or
Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Paris, Roswell, Loch Ness, the Nazca
Plain, Stonehenge, Area 51, The Queen Mary or that spooky old house
everyone whispered about in the neighborhood you grew up in.
The
Strange Traveler thinks vacations should be more than sunscreen and
lengthy discussions about where to eat dinner. Your travel tales should
make jaws drop around the office water cooler, and widen the eyes
of fellow parents on the T-ball sidelines.
You
see, the world is filled with Strange Travel possibilities: destinations
reputed to be haunted, cursed, charmed, visited by aliens, inhabited
by monsters, worshiped by strange cults, or infested by vampires,
faeries and zombies. Some of these places are the doorways to true
mysteries. Others are heavily hyped tourist traps. Most have overnight
accommodations, lots of local color, and at least one decent bar.
That's
where The Strange Traveler comes in.
This
Website and its newsletter are your tour guides to bizarre, out-of-the-way
destinations. This e-zine both guides readers to strange places they
can visit, and advises them of the supernatural undercurrents flowing
beneath traditional getaways.
