Traveling to Boston, MA

Boston, Massachusetts is a bustling city with rich culture and much to see and do. The city has much to offer for all ages alike mixed with great restaurants, hotels and shopping districts. 

One of the best hotels in Boston is called the, Boston Harbor Hotel. It gets its name because it is situated right on the harbor waterfront in a great location to other travel destination in Boston. The hotel has a magnificent grand archway that looks straight through to the harbor, which you drive through to get to the main entrance of the hotel. Also, the hotel is a five star accommodation, with the delicious Rowe's Whaft Sea Grille located in the lobby. The restaurant is open to both hotel and guest so on a weekend night it can fill up quickly so a reservation might be smart. The hotel is situation within walking distance of several great destination to visit while in Boston such as, Faneuil Hall, the aquarium, and the North End. 

Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, which is not only a historical land mark of Boston. But is a great family destination during a nice warm day in the Spring or Summer. Faneuil Hall is a great place for children because in the warmer months, a variety of street-performer flock to the cobble stone roads to entertain the crowd for loose pocket change and small tips. There are usually a variety of act to keep the attention of children of all ages as well as adults, with some performers being comedians and other doing high level acrobatic tricks. But Faneuil Hall has more to offer than just street-preformers, there is also numerous shops lining the streets, as well as a ton of little specialty carts inside Quincy Market. Also Quincy Market offers a variety of food inside, like a long, giant food court with much better food. If the food court does not tingle your taste buds, there is also several sit-down restaurants scatter around Faneuil Hall. One of the craziest is "Dick's Last Resort", which is a restaurant where the stuff is rude to the people eating there and you and the staff will go back and forth making fun of each other, all in good fun. I would not recommend bring children under like 13 years old though, just because it can hinder the experience and they my not understand its a joke. But over all its a funny time and Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market is a good day trip, within ten minute walking distance of the Boston Harbor Hotel. 

One more place to visit in Boston, which is also with in a ten or so minute walk from the hotel is the North End. This is a nice place for adults to go to on a romantic evening, with some water front views and upper scale restaurants. Also, there are little boutiques for shopping and great pastry shops for dessert. One of the best pastry shops is "Mike's Pastry", which has some of the best canaille and lobster tails, traditional Italian pastries that are to die for. Also, there is a huge Italian influence in the area, so there are good specialty italian food markets to get a taste of true Italian cheese, meats, bread and wine. There are many options to explore in the North End for adults giving them a chance to get away from their children for a little while and catch up on their personal feelings for each other. 

Three helpful Tips

I personally do not think that tip list had many help full tips on it overall. But is a good place to go for directional information and links to other parts of the website that could be of use. However, there were some tips that I did think could be helpful.

The first tip that I believe to be the most helpful is the one about tone. Tone is very important to your travel entry because its what will make the readers decide if they like and or trust the piece right off the bat. The tip explained how to go about expressing your opinion about the destination in a lively manner to intrigue the reader. Also, it said that because wikitravel is not a formal travel guide they like a nice mix between slang and perfect academic language, expression your point to the fullest, and not make it to general. That could be helpful because it gives you basic formate for your style of writing.

A second tip that I found interesting and imagine could be useful, was the one about editing your location and leaving a comment to explain why it changed. For example if I recommended an nice hotel as a place to stay and then it gets bought out by a different company. I could edit my wikitravel page and explain why I changed the page, so my readers would not just be left hanging. Allowing my readers to trust my guide and be able to use it to aid their travels at any point because it would be up to date and informative on changes to a destination.

The last tip that kind of coincides with the tone tip and could be aid me in my writing of the wikitravel is, designing your page to be not just used online before trips. But to design it so that the traveler could print out the page and bring it with them while they are traveling, and use it in an interactive way. That kind of falls into the tone of your writing as well as the structure of the page. The tip says to not make the page to long and wordy because then its not use during travel. But instead to be descriptive and to the point of the desired location, so that the travel can use it at any point during their travels. I liked that tip because it allows you visualize yourself traveling, asking whether your guide would be helpful at that random point in travel.

After reading through all of the parts, I am intrigued and excited to start the assignment. Having the ability to post a true traveler insight on a destinations, and not have it slandered by a company just trying to sell you on a trip.

That is what I really like about wikitravel, having the ability to post true feelings towards a place without fear of them being censored. The whole premise of the site allowing people to post real life experiences about a destination they have visited, and truly give you honest first hand feed back. A unique way of going about making a travel guide, without even realizing. Giving you first hand accounts on restaurants, hotels, places to see and much more.

One article that I found interesting was, the one about there policies. They are a lot more basic than I expected, although it makes sense in regards to what the website is designed and intended for. Just asking people to be original and on point with their stories and travel tips. Since there is no central governing body to decide what is good and bad, that is really all the company can do to make sure the articles on the site are, not off topic or incorrect.

Overall, I think the whole concept of both wikipedia and wikitravels is great. Allowing people to control what they post themselves, giving them complete control and there is no censorship involved. This why we can take a little power away from a central governing body and spread it out to real life people.

A Place of Influence

Why should anyone listen to a young adults blog, when there is many older and more experienced blogger out there? Why should my blog be a place were readers can believe and trust what I say about snowboarding?

While I hold no hirer standing or powerful position in my community, one thing I do have is a burning passion for snowboarding and all thing concurring that. It is that very love that I believe can make up for my lack of experience in blogging therefor allowing me to be someone people can listen to. That desire to not let down my love, but to try and rise that passion to a whole new level for myself and my readers a like.

All that passion start around five years ago and I have been while versed in snowboarding over those years. Not only learning to ride but also learning how boards are designed and built. Also, about different riders, different sponsors, and different compositions. I believe all that added knowledge should give readers a sense of safety and desire to read my blog. To figure out if they love snowboarding or are obsessed. Either way is fine.

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