From Vancouver Island, to the lower mainland….Seattle and Tacoma, Portland, and Eugene…. We have had a busy travel season. We hope you have enjoyed the photos and videos we have posted! We still have more displays to visit, but no more long distance travel.
We are saddened we were not able to make it over to displays in the eastern side of our coverage area, or get as far south in Oregon as we would have hoped, but it still was a great travel time, and we expanded our network further, and connected with more people along the way.
This is what makes PNWCL different than most, we network with people, we build community, we are not just about throwing a bunch of things on a map and calling it good. We take the time to confirm as much of the listings we have EACH and EVERY year, to ensure when people go out to see displays they are not disappointed. We try to meet with display owners, as possible, to learn their story, and talk about their lights. We also strive to give/leave a thank you card to all/most of the displays we visit (or attempt to visit). Is it a LOT of work, YES, yes it is 40-60 hours a week to ensure everything is kept up to date as best as possible.
We do all of this for FREE, no one pays to be on our map, and never will. If people choose to donate, or sponsor what we do, we appreciate it as our costs of doing all this do come out of our own pockets. Money collected goes towards our efforts here, and for future improvements. We’d like to use a different mapping system than we do, but obviously that comes with costs, so for now we continue with what has worked well enough for the past 10 years.
Those that know us, also know some of the other things we have in the plans.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
J&D