Transcript
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I'm Vince.
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I'm Emily.
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And you're listening to The Lighthouse Lowdown.
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Lighthouses represent the living, real history and culture of the communities they serve.
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They stand tall, regardless of their stature.
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They're valued threads in the fabric of culture.
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They bind the traditions and stories of each community together.
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Every single person I have ever spoken to about their local lighthouse has had kind
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regard, respect, and fond emotions surrounding their beacon.
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While many of lights have, in the past, served to warn of hazards, to keep away, to avoid
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contact, today they call us in.
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Lighthouses serve now as a meeting place, a safe harbor, a path to our past.
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As constant symbols of the best of each generation, lighthouses today need us, as we have needed
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them for so many years in the past.
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To keep the flame alight, to keep the lights on, and to keep the stories alive.
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There's a constant need for support within the lighthouse community today.
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The best way to do so is to visit, volunteer, donate, and tour.
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Today we're talking about lighthouse tourism in the United States.
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Okay, Ty, that's pretty.
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Isn't that cool?
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Did you write that?
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I did.
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Wow.
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Very nice.
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It's true.
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Lighthouses run on donations, and that comes in the form of showing up and paying to get
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in.
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Yes.
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Well, I just, I wanted to talk about, obviously, lighthouse tourism, but I wanted to, I wanted
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to write to myself, not, I wasn't planning to read this, but to see why I'm doing this,
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why I want to have this conversation.
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It's not just a, this is something you can do, but what gets me excited about it, what
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makes me think about it.
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So I wrote it to myself, and then I wrote it to write to you, to say to you.
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We wrote to write to say.
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Yes.
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And as customary, I will now talk about our lighthouse buoy of the day.
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Okay.
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First of all, it's called history buoy.
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I don't know what's going on with you today.
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Oh, it's written as history buoy.
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We should tell everybody it's Friday.
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We just got off work and it was a full week.
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So here we are talking line houses.
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Yeah.
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After work on a Friday is a rough time, but there's, we have.
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Boy, and see in our souls because it's weekend.
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Yes.
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And I made some espresso.
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Yeah.
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I offered Starbucks and Vince still wanted to make at home coffee and it's, it's pretty
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good.
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It's pretty good.
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It's not Starbucks.
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It's different.
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It's hot.
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Boston.
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So I'm going to take over the screen with my other screen for a minute to show you where
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I'm going.
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So we're going to lighthouse patents on the U S LHS website, which is United States lighthouse
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society for those of you who have not listened, I just went and found a random patent because
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I thought it was super cool and I got sucked into this thing.
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So we're going to talk about the Stuart improvement and fog signals patent.
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These.
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Okay.
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So how many do they have?
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They have like so many patents.
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Yeah.
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So it's one of their, one of their resources, lighthouse technology.
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Okay.
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So are these, are these like patents that they've adopted like in lighthouses or something?
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Yeah.
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I mean, it's a historical record.
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So yeah, these are, if you go to the, this website and then go to resources, I love their
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resources page because I'm a lighthouse nerd as are many of you.
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And I'm also an engineer.
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So I saw lighthouse technology and I was like pumped up.
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My favorite history I've done.
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Wow.
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My favorite history buoy that I've done so far was lightning rods, which did not come
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from this source, but I was just super excited because it's technology and historical technology
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is cool.
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Also, we don't know how, like how we got to where we are now.
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I am excited about this one.
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So this is some diagrams that are part of Stuart.
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I'm just going to call them Stuart.
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It's his last name, but wrote this whole thing invented and wrote this whole thing.
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These are some images and then below, if you want to read, I read this whole thing and
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I won't read it to you now, but basically it's an improvement in fog signals, 1873.
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So awesome lighthouse era.
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And this is super cool because I'm a mechanical engineer and this dude is very innovative
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and I would love to have seen something like this work.
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So basically what the point of it is, it describes the problem early in the patent description
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as there are many ways to charge the use of a fog signal, like either a bell or a whistle
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and to store the energy to be expended, to emit the noise, but they mostly rely at the
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time, they mostly relied on waves.
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So as a storm would come in, the waves would pick up and go back down and that continuous
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motion would provide a float with motion.
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The float would drive the system that drives either the steam whistle or the fog bell.
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This is a similar system, except it's designed to work at all times.
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So not every storm or not every fog condition rather has big waves, but what's always going
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on with the ocean is the tide, the movement of tide.
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So this over time uses a float, which is labeled as figure A. If you're looking at the ocean,
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the image in figure one, letter A uses this as basically a box and they talk about the
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different configurations it could be, but this is a float.
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So as the tide rise and fall, the float goes up and down.
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It moves a lever arm, which moves a set of hooks that come down to connect to the lever
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arm and it winds a set of gears, which use weights, falling weights as in clockwork to
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store energy.
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So over time, this lever goes up and down and it actually acts as a ratchet, you know,
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where it clicks one way, but not the other and picks up the weight.
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And then when you need to activate it, the fall of the weight and he goes on to say that's
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not part of the patent that can be done using modern clockworks of the time to use different
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weights or different velocities or different whatever.
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But basically this thing can just be stationary, no electricity all the time.
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It's taking the tide of the ocean water and storing it as potential energy in a falling
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weight, which I think is super cool.
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So the unique part of it is that it ratchets and it uses this set of hooks that come down.
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And then once the hooks get to the bottom, there's a shape that's described down here
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and the shape spreads those hooks and they disengage.
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So it goes once and once and once every time the waves go up and down, but it's not waves,
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it's tide.
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So it's a slower constant weight to store energy.
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I don't know if this was a successful use.
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I don't know anywhere that it was used specifically, but I just saw this and read through it and
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I super nerded out.
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It's so cool.
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There's witnesses.
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It's pretty cool that you can just read through them.
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Yeah.
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1873.
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It's very technical writing, still fully understand everything.
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I think there's one word I did not know, which makes you feel stoops, but I thought it was
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super cool.
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I wonder what you get for a patent.
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Grapple hooks.
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Bifurcated?
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Bifurcated?
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No, I know that one.
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What is it?
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It means split.
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That's it?
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Split evenly.
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Yeah.
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Why do they just say split?
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Use a lot of fancy words.
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Stupid.
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Yeah.
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I'm aware that the latter may be employed with closely approximate results and I therefore
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do not limit myself to actuating weights per se as springs are considered as equivalent
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thereof and employed in similar connection.
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Springs were way out more, wouldn't they?
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They were out, yeah.
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Especially at the time, spring metal was not as good, but I just thought this is cool.
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Very cool.
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Now I kind of want to look through all of them and see, especially ones like that they
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have Winslow Lewis's reflector.
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They were everywhere.
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I wonder if the Fresnel lens was patented.
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There's lens technology in there.
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Tourism.
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So you want to go on a trip and you want to see a lighthouse too.
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So you want to go on a trip, do you?
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The good news is for us in the United States, all but 19 states have lighthouses.
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They're all just snuggled up in there in the middle.
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I mean, anywhere there's coastline, right?
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Oceans.
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Oceans.
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I don't know.
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I mean, Gulf and the Great Lakes all have lighthouses.
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And I would still like to see Kansas have a lighthouse, maybe Missouri.
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We don't have a reason.
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Come on.
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We've got like Table Rock Lake.
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There's some lakes.
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I'm sure there's a tiny lighthouse somewhere on Lake of the Ozarks.
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Yeah.
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Someone's backyard.
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Exactly.
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So this is sourced from Lighthouse Friends, which is a website.
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They do a great job.
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Yeah, they do.
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And then here I jumped.
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Let's say you click on the state of North Carolina.
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I chose this because we've been to here.
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So you click on the state and it takes you to a Google map that they've set up, which
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is just awesome.
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All the black lighthouses, black and white that are shown on their map are no longer
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standing.
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What?
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That sucks.
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Yeah.
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There's black icons for lighthouses no longer standing.
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Yep.
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You know, this makes me sad because being born in the 1990s, we've missed out.
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You know, we've been born in the 1890s.
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Yeah, but we got our own stuff.
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Like what?
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Cell phones, social media, music, television.
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I want Grant's Island Lighthouse back.
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I want Campbell Island Lighthouse back.
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Well.
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I want Beacon Island Lighthouse back.
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You can click on any of these and I'll take you to the Lighthouse Friends web page for
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that lighthouse.
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I didn't know.
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So where do you find this map?
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Lighthouse friends dot com.
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Just like on the front cover or?
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It's in there.
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Yeah.
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I don't know exactly.
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But that's really cool.
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Let's see.
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Yeah.
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Lighthouse friends dot com.
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The very main thing that comes up is maps, lighthouse maps also has Canada on here.
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It's cool.
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That is nice.
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Cool.
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Off here.
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So that's a resource for you.
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If you want to think about travel in general in the U.S., that's a place to start.
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So why would someone want to see a lighthouse on their vacation?
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Because we love lighthouses.
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Because they listen to our podcast.
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That's a simple answer.
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But there's a lot of reasons.
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Some of them, some of them.
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I'd like you to weigh in.
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They're always a hub of history.
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Like all the time.
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I don't know.
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Long Point Lighthouse.
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I saw this on a website and I was like, you know what?
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These kids right here.
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Probably kids.
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Maybe they're small men or women.
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I don't know.
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There's history there.
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There's probably a long history at every lighthouse, especially the one still standing.
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Some of the culture you get to experience in tourism of lighthouses is less touristy,
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less touristy and more local.
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I mean, a lot like we've talked about this.
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I've talked about it too many times, but the local culture of lighthouses is what's really
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important.
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Yeah.
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It's very niche subject.
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Yeah.
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They're run by volunteers.
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If you do support them, you're usually supporting the local economy, which is good.
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Lighthouses are almost always a photo and video hotspot.
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Thanks to Instagram and YouTube and literally all of the internet.
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Scenic.
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Scenic.
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Very pretty places.
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I say that they can make a physical memory for you and the kids.
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So one of our neighbors in our area here near the RipRap studio has a Cape Hatteras stained
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glass art piece hanging in their window, among other pieces.
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They had a garage sit when I stopped by and that was not for sale.
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But I did talk to the lady and she was probably in her seventies or eighties and she was talking
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about, yeah, I don't, I don't know where that lighthouse is at, but we went there as kids
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and her sister was there and I was like, I know where it's at.
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We went there as kids.
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It's like memorable.
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It sticks with you.
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They remember it from long ago in their lives and it was a special thing for them.
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And they don't even know where it's at, but they hold onto that piece of art.
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I think that's just kind of common.
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Not everybody's a huge lighthouse nerd like we are, but I think that that impression can
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last with a lot of people.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Especially young kids.
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Yes.
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Cause it's so, it's usually, I mean, some of them are short, but they're still like,
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it's like a very strange, impactful sort of building.
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Yeah.
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They're not, there's, there's no lighthouses commonplace.
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Yeah.
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And a lot of, a lot of times you have to seek them out because they're not.
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Yeah.
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They're not in the middle of things.
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It's not like going to see like a popular museum or a park or something.
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Right.
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They're good for getting on your feet while you're on vacation.
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That's true.
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You are almost doing walking tours every time.
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Some of them you can climb, which is good for your health.
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Speaking of walking tours, long, long point is the name of the lighthouse that's on long
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point in Massachusetts.
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No shit.
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No, no.
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I'm done.
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I'm totally expired.
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Listen, we are going to walk there, go across the dike, see Woodend.
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And then you see a long point lighthouse, but there, it doesn't look anything like that.
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But that's true for a lot of lighthouses in Massachusetts.
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I think this one's gone and replaced.
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With the one that we have.
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Interesting.
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I did a really bad job.
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I had some photos I put together to click through and kind of talk about cool stuff.
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It's not a bad job.
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This is a good opportunity to pull up random lighthouses and be like, look how cool this
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is.
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Especially AT40.
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Okay.
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I'm back on.
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Beautiful views, right?
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All the time.
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Goes along with the beachfront.
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They're always, almost, on a beach, which people like.
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Or there's a beach nearby.
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Beaches.
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I don't know.
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I mean, you could spend an hour, if you have a vacation, right, you could spend an hour
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at a stop, even less.
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You could spend a day, you could spend weeks just doing lighthouse tours.
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In fact, we'll talk about it later, but there are specific tours to see lighthouses, both
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sponsored by the United States Lighthouse Society and others.
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Yeah.
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So you can really get into it if you want.
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And you know, they have a lot of things like you just pay someone.
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Okay.
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Let me collect my thoughts.
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There are some ferries that you can pay for a ticket and the ferry goes around to like
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four or five different lighthouses.
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So you just sit on a boat, hang out.
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Sometimes they got food, drinks, a lighthouse cruise.
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That's what the cruise, I couldn't think of the word, but yeah, you're going to go around
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and they tell you the history and everything.
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That's such a cool thing you could pay for to go on a trip somewhere and see some lighthouses.
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Well, there's opportunity too.
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I mean, thinking of thinking of the word cruise.
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We talked to our guy, the Bahamas, Toby Smith.
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Toby Smith.
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Yes.
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And I saw an article recently that he's still pursuing that.
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Oh, good.
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Yeah.
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So listen to that.
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Listen to that episode.
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But we talked to him.
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Every cruise ship that comes into Nassau, Bahamas goes right past what is his lighthouse.
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But it's also, I mean, it's the people's lighthouse, right?
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He owns the land, but it's a missed opportunity.
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There's no one going to visit there right now.
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And all those cruise ships coming in and out, going right by.
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And there's some really, really great photos of this lighthouse of people passing by on
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a cruise because they're so high up on the cruise ships that it looks like drone footage.
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So they get really good pictures of it.
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And then they don't even get a chance to go and see it.
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Like there should be some big billboard that's like, when you get off at the harbor, come
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on over.
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Yeah.
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Well, and it doesn't need to be the main attraction.
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Of course, there's many other things to see, but it's the lighthouse.
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It's cool.
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I just wish there's opportunities like that out there that are not yet developed.
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And people like Toby Smith are working on that.
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But man, if you do have the opportunity, consider it special.
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Like I just went through a slide we talked about.
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It showed St. Augustine lighthouse.
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And a lot of people in our community know of St. Augustine and how well they've done
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with their tourism development.
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It's they've done a fantastic job.
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So there's more opportunities.
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I think it's cool.
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The last thing I have on the reasons to go, it might not be there forever.
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Yeah.
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Which is really unfortunate.
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So sad, especially like places like Maine right now are really struggling because their
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lighthouse is getting beat crap with storms and things like the intensity of these storms
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is causing real damage.
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And there's no promise that the lighthouse is going to be able to recover.
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You know, that's we take for granted that they're still here after all these years.
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But that does mean that that's many years of corrosion or wood rot or, you know, stones
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cracking, crumbling the earth, erosions.
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It's all like 150 years of being on the edge of rough seas takes its toll.
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So I know we need people to go so that they can pay for restorations.
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So I've said my piece.
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It's a nice picture.
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I'm not too sure this is AI, but I'm all right with it.
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So to a spreadsheet.
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All right.
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You need to plan your trip.
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I've really boiled myself down, folks.
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I've come up with just three things.
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Oh, wow.
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You need one of the financial budget.
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That's what that's not what your spreadsheets do not scream three simple steps.
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Yeah.
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Break it down to spreadsheets.
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They're color coded.
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It's all linked to things.
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It's wonderful.
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OK.
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I'm going to talk about this to what's on screen, but you need a financial budget because
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for almost everybody out there that matters.
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You need a time budget, which again, if you're retired, I envy you in some ways.
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And then you have a must have, must do, must see list.
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So if you've already planned a trip, there's some resources for you.
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But that is what you want to narrow down to.
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We're going to come back to the spreadsheet as far as discussion goes.
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If you've already planned a trip, a couple of things I recommend search the Internet
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for lighthouses along your route.
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It's the most modern, most updated, probably widest set of resources.
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The best thing I would say actually on this list, it's bolded is ask a local if you have
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an opportunity, write an email, reach out to somebody, make a phone call.
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And I have this on screen now.
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Take a tour of Maryland's lighthouses.
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This is from visit Maryland dot com or whatever that whatever their name is.
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But it's a state sponsored tourism.
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You know, come see Kansas.
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We don't have lighthouses, but every state has this opportunity.
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Yeah, like hot spots.
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They all have that info.
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And a note that a lot of lighthouses, not a lot.
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OK, but some lighthouses don't show up on Google when you go to a spot and type in lighthouses
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and click enter sometimes because they're labeled on Google as like light stations or
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something, you know, or they just don't show up for some reason.
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So you have to do like a little bit more of a search than just putting it into the maps.
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Well, and on the Web, I'd say USLHS dot org, Lighthouse Friends.
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I think it's dot com state tourism websites.
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And then, of course, the Lighthouse Lowdown podcast.
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We're doing more to develop areas of interest that you could put them together.
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And like the Outer Banks, North Carolina is one we did early on.
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A bunch of awesome lighthouses.
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Also, if you're a reader, we have met a couple of authors that we've had as friends of the
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Lighthouse Lowdown.
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Fred Stonehouse and Jeremy Dattremont are both authors of several books.
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I didn't know that about Jeremy until recently.
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But there's other ways to take it in if you're tired of just looking at your screen.
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So that's if you have a trip planned.
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Yeah, to integrate little lighthouses.
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We're next to water somewhere.
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There's probably a lighthouse even in Boston.
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I saw I noticed California doesn't have as many lighthouses as they want them to have.
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It's a big state.
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You go into California and there's no LA and there's no lighthouses nearby.
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What's up with that?
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I don't know.
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LA, can you tell us?
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Shame on you.
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So if you're up to plan a trip, I would my tastes are obvious.
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I would listen to podcasts or watch YouTube videos about traveling to your areas of interest.
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There's lots of producers, us and others that cover that type of content.
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Take an area based on your time and financial budgets, plot out all of your options, everything
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that you would be interested in seeing, and then cut it down to a tenable list.
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That's my hardest part.
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And then I say, see our video for an example.
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So all this is building into Emily and I are going on another lighthouse trip.
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We're very excited.
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We're going to the Cape Cod area.
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It's going to be fun.
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We're about to be living the dream.
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We're really excited.
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I have a video.
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It's going to be posted on YouTube as well.
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We have audio with it as well.
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Sorry, what?
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That video of our discussion where we talked about lifehouses and our trips.
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Okay.
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And I'm going to go back on screen.
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We're so tired.
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So this spreadsheet, everybody loves the spreadsheet.
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If you want it, reach out to me.
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Oh, slow down at gmail.com.
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You're going to sell your commodities.
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No, I'm giving it away.
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It's a Google sheet.
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So I'll just send you a link and you can make your own.
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But basically what I've done here, it's one of several tabs.
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You're welcome.
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And basically it sums up.
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We wanted to go somewhere.
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As you can see the title of this one, Pacific Northwest Lighthouse Loop of 2024.
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This was not the winner of this time.
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Not even close.
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I wanted this one.
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Obviously it's a competition.
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This is my top pick.
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We went with Emily's top pick.
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We chose my option.
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And there's multiple tabs.
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Basically I put together a Google map that shows where we would drive, where we'd fly
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into.
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I picked hotels that I thought looked cool, what the rental car was going to cost.
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And I did gas estimates, food estimates, entertainment, other in total.
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So this is finances we're looking at.
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And for we're trying to do it on the cheap kind of.
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Which is hard because since lighthouses are on the water, they tend to lean more touristy
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places.
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Like Cape Cod's super touristy, super affluent.
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And so our food and lodging costs are way higher than if we decided to go somewhere
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where it wasn't.
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Keep in mind we're from Kansas City.
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So anywhere we can drive anywhere.
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But Chicago is far for us.
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And even though we're both in the Midwest according to the rest of the world.
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Are we not Midwest?
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I would say that we're in the Midwest and Chicago is in the East.
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00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,920
But that's a lot of people would find that laughable.
508
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,440
Oh, Chicago is Chicago is considered Midwest.
509
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:37,600
Oh, yeah.
510
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:38,600
Yeah.
511
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,640
So the point is our local economy here.
512
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,680
Things are cheaper than on the coasts.
513
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,200
Yeah, truly everywhere in the U.S.
514
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,600
So that's our perspective is expensive.
515
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:54,160
But the point is you can plan your own trip on paper and then present it to your spouse
516
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,000
and say, hey, here's what I want to do.
517
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,680
Here's exactly what it costs.
518
00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,080
Here's how many days it is.
519
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,480
How many hours will be in the car?
520
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:06,180
You know, have those discussions and then you can negotiate on what you want to do.
521
00:24:06,180 --> 00:24:09,720
So this is like maybe you're not an engineer nerd like I am.
522
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,600
But this is where I like to start is with numbers because I don't even know if I can
523
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:14,600
afford to go on the trip.
524
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,400
I don't know how many days of PTO, how many all these things.
525
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,320
So this is helping me to start that.
526
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,720
But please, if you're interested, go watch our other video.
527
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,160
I don't know the title yet, but it will be obvious.
528
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,960
It will be our lighthouse pitches.
529
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:32,000
And we cover a couple of different options in that video.
530
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,480
And there's a screen capture with it just like this video.
531
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,720
So you can follow along and see what that exercise is like.
532
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,120
I didn't I didn't want to embed it here because it makes the video really long.
533
00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:42,520
So yeah.
534
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,840
And you can see the difference between me.
535
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:49,960
If you go to the YouTube, you can see the difference between me and Vince and our organizational
536
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:56,760
styles because our spreadsheets look a little different.
537
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:57,840
And that's all I have to say about that.
538
00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:58,840
Yeah.
539
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,160
Go look at the difference between a typical mechanical and a typical chemical engineer.
540
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:03,160
Excuse me.
541
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,960
I'm not representative of the chemical engineers in this world.
542
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:06,960
Typical.
543
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,240
I'm an artist.
544
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,140
So I'm just going to click through a couple more resources.
545
00:25:13,140 --> 00:25:17,320
I got a shout out because really we have great resources today.
546
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,120
So this is what we talked about earlier a little bit.
547
00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:25,480
The US LHS has their own page travel tab tours and traveling adventures.
548
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:26,640
You can also see on the left.
549
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,240
So there's there's tours, there's cruises, there's accommodations.
550
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:35,400
Oh, they have two lighthouses, Point No Point and Point Wilson.
551
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,760
Both are northwest of Seattle.
552
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:39,760
Pretty sure.
553
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:40,760
OK.
554
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:41,760
But they have beautiful photos.
555
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,920
We covered them before when I talked about the US LHS.
556
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,760
And you can stay in a lighthouse.
557
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,680
You can also stay in line houses, other places we've discovered.
558
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,120
Yeah, there's lots of good ones.
559
00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:52,120
Right.
560
00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:57,240
That are not through the US LHS, but through some are state parks even some of them are
561
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:58,960
totally private airbnbs.
562
00:25:58,960 --> 00:25:59,960
So what?
563
00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:06,480
So I'm trying to think of there was a location recently where the lighthouse itself is not
564
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:07,480
an airbnb.
565
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:08,480
You're Split Rock.
566
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:09,480
I can't remember.
567
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:10,480
I think it was one of the.
568
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:15,000
Oh, I can't remember what it was.
569
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,760
Because one of the one of the lighthouses in one of the pitches that I was doing for
570
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,400
you, there was a place to stay.
571
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,040
It was like an airbnb that said that it was a lighthouse, but it wasn't the lighthouse.
572
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:26,920
It was like down the street from the lighthouse.
573
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:31,740
So it's like it actually gets pretty complicated trying to stay in a lighthouse.
574
00:26:31,740 --> 00:26:35,320
Some of them are really, really expensive, like a thousand dollars a night.
575
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,060
And some of them are pretty cheap.
576
00:26:38,060 --> 00:26:41,920
And you just can't just have to figure out like Big Bay Lighthouse, I think, was one
577
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,280
of them that I wanted to stay at.
578
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,160
It was not very expensive.
579
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:49,960
But I mean, for another example, we talked about in San Francisco, East Brother Light.
580
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,200
That's not only an airbnb.
581
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,200
It's a whole experience.
582
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:53,200
Yeah, like you episode.
583
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:54,520
They're pretty successful.
584
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,560
But that's a whole, you know, it's a financial.
585
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,560
I don't even know how much it costs.
586
00:26:58,560 --> 00:26:59,560
I assume it's more expensive.
587
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:00,560
Yeah, I did too.
588
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,320
But you get a boat ride out there.
589
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:03,680
They're private chefs.
590
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:04,680
It's a whole thing.
591
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,360
Oh, here's a good one.
592
00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:08,100
White Shoal Lighthouse.
593
00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:11,840
You go out for I think it's three days.
594
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,720
They just drop you off.
595
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,000
And it's like physically demanding.
596
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,560
You survive with a knife.
597
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:17,560
Yeah, exactly.
598
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,600
It's like being let out in the woods for like a coming of age story.
599
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,180
Awesome.
600
00:27:23,180 --> 00:27:24,600
But it's very expensive.
601
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,240
I can't remember exactly what the cost was.
602
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,640
But it was like, oh, my gosh, like it's white sand.
603
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,920
You have no no white shoals.
604
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:32,920
White Shoals.
605
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:33,920
White Shoals.
606
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:34,920
Ghosts.
607
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,200
So White Shoals is in Michigan.
608
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,120
Yeah, it's like out on the lake.
609
00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:43,120
Oh, man.
610
00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:44,120
Isn't that wild?
611
00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:45,120
It's just its own thing.
612
00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:46,960
It's just it's like out on the Cason.
613
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:47,960
Google reviews.
614
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:48,960
Twelve of them.
615
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:49,960
Five stars.
616
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:50,960
Yeah, people.
617
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:51,960
It's.
618
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:52,960
Oh, this is so cool.
619
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:53,960
It's an experience.
620
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:58,880
So I unfortunately I'm not showing this on screen, but maybe we'll cover it on its own.
621
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,400
Yeah, I have it on my list.
622
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:02,400
Because I saw.
623
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:08,080
But anyway, that's a tangent from what I was trying to say is that it's kind of hard to
624
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:15,600
find places to stay or lighthouses to stay in because it varies so greatly on one availability
625
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,440
to cost.
626
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:22,960
And if you can even find it on Google, because it's not intuitive, it's just usually it's
627
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:24,600
just labeled as a bed and breakfast.
628
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,520
So it's like, oh, you're going to really hunt them down.
629
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:27,520
You have to know.
630
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:28,520
Yeah.
631
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,480
The other thing is they're not going and building new ones.
632
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,280
Yeah, they're not like it's like Las Vegas.
633
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,520
Everything's new and you can replace it right away.
634
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,520
That's what Vegas needs.
635
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,840
Is a lighthouse one and two.
636
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:41,840
It's got to be an Airbnb.
637
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:42,840
There's no water.
638
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:43,840
They're a casino in it.
639
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:44,840
Why the heck not?
640
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:45,840
That would be so cool though.
641
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,840
And then like the really rich people could stay up like in the lantern room.
642
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,840
They guess you heard it here first.
643
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:54,840
I'm going to patent it.
644
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,840
OK, you do that.
645
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:02,840
Also on the US LHS, there's videos of some of their past tours and that's what I'm going
646
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:03,840
to do.
647
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:09,080
Also on the US LHS, there's videos of some of their past tours and I watched a couple.
648
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:10,080
People are having fun.
649
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:11,080
Yeah.
650
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,640
So it's like a culmination of all the things that happened.
651
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:14,640
Oh, that's fun.
652
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:15,640
Yeah.
653
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,640
We'll get together and getting on their tour bus.
654
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,080
Oh, I really want to go.
655
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:23,880
There was a trip they posted recently that was like twelve thousand dollars or something
656
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:24,880
to go.
657
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,760
I want to be retired and I want to be rich at the same time.
658
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,480
I saw one in Ireland coming up.
659
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,560
I was like, oh, that'd be awesome.
660
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:33,560
That would be cool.
661
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:34,560
So Ireland Lighthouses.
662
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,240
We haven't really branched out around the world yet.
663
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,920
I've looked at some.
664
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:47,920
I had fun doing a couple of international lighthouses in the past, but now I'm really
665
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,120
loving covering American lighthouses.
666
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,480
The international are really cool.
667
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:53,480
It's just harder to find.
668
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:54,480
But I mean, look at this.
669
00:29:54,480 --> 00:30:02,000
Northern Spain, Australia, Tasmania, Newfoundland, Italy, Scotland, Ireland, Iceland.
670
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,000
So cool.
671
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,000
It is cool.
672
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,000
So this is just a snip again, but same website.
673
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,440
Some of theirs are tours.
674
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:09,440
Oh, Maine.
675
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:10,440
Is that Quatty?
676
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,600
Yeah, that looks like West Quatty.
677
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:13,600
Nice.
678
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:14,600
Wow.
679
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:15,600
Some more opportunities for learning.
680
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:16,600
Lighthouse Digest.
681
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:17,600
I really want this.
682
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:18,600
I really want it.
683
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:24,240
So there's a magazine called the Lighthouse Digest, which is put out by the USLHS.
684
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:25,240
Is that right?
685
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:26,240
No, it's a separate entity.
686
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,280
OK, never mind what I just said.
687
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,400
But the guy who started this recently passed away.
688
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:33,400
Oh, no.
689
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:34,400
They are continuing it.
690
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:35,400
So yeah.
691
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:36,400
Yeah.
692
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:37,400
So it looks awesome.
693
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,440
But that'd be another good resource.
694
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:40,440
I keep saying these things.
695
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:46,360
I think of my multiple generations of family and how we could all enjoy lighthouses in
696
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:47,360
a different format.
697
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:48,360
Yeah, that's true.
698
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,200
Like you don't have to be a lighthouse person to enjoy a lighthouse trip.
699
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:56,640
I think that's the other thing is people think because it is a niche thing that you have
700
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,480
to be into that in order to go and visit.
701
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:04,600
But lighthouses aren't you don't have so many lighthouses are not off by themselves in the
702
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:05,600
middle of nowhere.
703
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:10,160
That's the ones that we would go to because you plan a whole trip around actually going
704
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,160
to those places.
705
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,880
But a lot of lighthouses like Cape Cod are just smack dab in the middle of a million
706
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,000
other things you could be traveling to go do.
707
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:25,040
How many people have heard of Cape Cod and would like to go visit just packing some lighthouses?
708
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,480
Thunder Bay.
709
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:27,480
Thunder Bay.
710
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,640
You know, the Great Lakes Thunder Bay up there.
711
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:31,640
I don't know.
712
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:39,160
You know, Astoria, Oregon, the Gulf, every, every coastline.
713
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:43,560
I'm just talking US, but every coastline has lighthouses and it blows me away.
714
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,720
And a lot of them are in national parks and national parks is another like niche thing
715
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:48,920
that people like to go do.
716
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:54,360
Like there's this one girl that I work with that collects park pins.
717
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:55,360
Yeah.
718
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:56,360
And like stickers and stuff.
719
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:57,360
Cool.
720
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,160
And I mean, it's just like this huge culmination of all the places she's been to.
721
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:05,400
It's obvious that she seeks out going to national parks for her trips and some of them have
722
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,640
lighthouses gets at the lighthouse.
723
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:08,640
I just saw one.
724
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,440
I can't tell you what it is because it's a future episode that it looks awesome.
725
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:17,040
It's a international park in California, which is beautiful.
726
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,040
But I'm intrigued.
727
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:19,040
Yeah.
728
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:24,300
But I just, the other thing I want to say about traveling and visiting lighthouses,
729
00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:28,440
when we first started this and we started to learn about lighthouses, we started with
730
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,780
North Carolina was the first ones I was exposed to.
731
00:32:31,780 --> 00:32:37,820
We talked about, you know, every lighthouse is tall and it's a tower and it's got a fuel
732
00:32:37,820 --> 00:32:43,520
oil house and it's got a keeper's quarters and you know, Fresnel.
733
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:44,520
Yeah.
734
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,520
Flashbacks to Fresnel.
735
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:54,120
But I used to say, uh, this is so spoiled for me to say I got to travel in Western Europe
736
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:59,640
a little bit and every little town you go to has a church.
737
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:00,640
You got to see the church.
738
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:01,640
It's got a bridge.
739
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,120
You got to see the bridge and it's got some cute little downtown area that's been there
740
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,600
forever and those are wonderful things.
741
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,920
But eventually you're like, do I want to see another church?
742
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:12,360
I mean, they're all beautiful.
743
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:16,480
They're all different, but I, I, so that's what I was thinking with lighthouses.
744
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:17,480
Okay.
745
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,320
It's another one of the same, but they're not that way.
746
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:20,320
Yeah.
747
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:21,320
They're all different.
748
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:22,380
Look at the three on screen.
749
00:33:22,380 --> 00:33:24,200
I didn't even plan this.
750
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,280
They're all physically different styles of lighthouses.
751
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:28,280
I don't even know.
752
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:29,280
They're probably all in very different places.
753
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,600
They probably have their own story.
754
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:32,920
The structures are different.
755
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,920
The day marks are different.
756
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:40,040
Um, yes, lighthouses are lighthouses, but, but they're not, there's more to it.
757
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:45,040
And every single one, the thing that I get so interested in is the history of what's
758
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,040
gone on there.
759
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,320
The stories of why it's been significant or why it's significant today.
760
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:54,880
Obviously I'm a nerd for it, but I accidentally did this and I find it interesting.
761
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:55,880
We've got a, what is that?
762
00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:00,400
Screw pile, skeleton, skeleton and traditional tower.
763
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:01,400
Yeah.
764
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:02,400
Super cool.
765
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,680
So we're talking about, I've never seen black and yellow stripes.
766
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:10,800
What lighthouses that, um, it just processed.
767
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:11,800
Don't know.
768
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,080
It looks dope though.
769
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:14,080
Yeah.
770
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,240
It looks like a black and yellow, black and yellow.
771
00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:19,440
It's very cool.
772
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:20,440
I have to look it up.
773
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:21,440
I don't know that one.
774
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,720
I've never seen that style.
775
00:34:23,720 --> 00:34:25,680
And there's the lighthouse passport.
776
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:31,800
Which if you're not familiar, go watch the episode on the us LHS.
777
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,400
We can't, I keep shouting us out.
778
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:38,040
We're already on our own podcast, but you got to check it out because it's a really
779
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,920
interesting episode and the passport program is awesome.
780
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,780
But basically the boil down is you get this passport book.
781
00:34:44,780 --> 00:34:49,880
It's a booklet and you collect stamps as you travel lighthouse to lighthouse after a certain
782
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,960
number of stamps and you get a patch that shows, Hey, I've been to this many lighthouses
783
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,640
and it goes on and on and on, but it's a fun way to document your travels.
784
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,480
Uh, even if you're just going to see one, I just put it in a drawer.
785
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:02,480
It's awesome.
786
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:03,480
Really cool program.
787
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:04,480
Very low cost.
788
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:09,320
Here's some more swag from the passport program.
789
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,320
The image on the right is just showing, you know, get a bunch of stamps.
790
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:13,820
They're all different.
791
00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:14,820
What's the story?
792
00:35:14,820 --> 00:35:16,320
Aren't they designed and then submitted?
793
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:17,320
Yeah.
794
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:18,320
Stamp for a lighthouse.
795
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:19,320
They design.
796
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:20,320
Yeah, they design it.
797
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:26,000
And then the lighthouse itself has to fund the creation of the stamp and then they have
798
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,720
to keep it.
799
00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:32,760
And so if you go, someone goes and asks for us the stamp and they can stamp your passport.
800
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:37,880
So it's kind of has to be an agreement, but, um, I really like it.
801
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,240
Even like Montauk point is on here.
802
00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:41,840
Super cool.
803
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:46,740
And then this is kind of a, to pry you again, please do this.
804
00:35:46,740 --> 00:35:49,080
Just see a lighthouse on your trip.
805
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,200
Or if you live near one, you haven't been there, check it out.
806
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:52,200
It'd be an afternoon trip.
807
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:59,280
I'll be very jealous, but this is a snip again from our us LHS episode that shows there are
808
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,480
334 at the time.
809
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:06,240
Lighthouses in need of restoration just within the U S. Wow.
810
00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:10,480
So that doesn't mean they're decrepit when you visit them.
811
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:11,480
Right.
812
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:16,520
So you see the layer of paint or something, you know, time passes and, uh, the way that
813
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,960
you can support them and get something for yourself is to go visit.
814
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,000
Oh, I did include the picture.
815
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,000
This one is point, no point lighthouse in Washington.
816
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000
This is our headquarters.
817
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,920
This is the headquarters of the US LHS.
818
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,520
Although it's not, this is the actual lighthouse.
819
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,240
The headquarters is right there.
820
00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:34,680
Oh, I just down the street.
821
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,280
I was ready for that.
822
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,400
But yes, and this is one of those places where you can stay.
823
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,400
Um, there's accommodations here.
824
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:42,480
It's a duplex.
825
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,160
It is a duplex.
826
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,160
This is point Wilson.
827
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:46,480
I just love this photo.
828
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,520
I know it's amazing sunset colors, but man, it's pretty.
829
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:50,880
I gotta ask you one more time.
830
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:51,880
Go check out.
831
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:57,280
If you've listened this far, please go check out our YouTube and go see the other video,
832
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,960
which we talk about the pitches, have it on the background.
833
00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:00,960
Give us some critiques.
834
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:01,960
Yeah.
835
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:02,960
It really doesn't have a purpose.
836
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,840
It's just kind of us discussing where we're going to go next.
837
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:10,840
And through it, you can kind of see how we laid out the plans for visiting a bunch of
838
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,840
lighthouses, but it kind of translates well to doing any sort of trip.
839
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,560
So yeah, well, we surprised each other with our pitches, which is fun.
840
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:23,520
And then we, we chose from these options, uh, and, you know, discuss budget and time
841
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:24,520
and all that.
842
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,200
So it does, I mean, it does have a purpose, but it'll be fun.
843
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:28,200
Cool.
844
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:29,200
Listen to it.
845
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:30,200
It'd be super fun.
846
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,200
Do you have anything else you want to add?
847
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,000
No, I will pitch myself again.
848
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,840
Check out our YouTube, please check out our LinkedIn.
849
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,640
Why don't you get professional with us here at the lighthouse?
850
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:44,200
You're going to want to, you're going to want to, we don't bother you much.
851
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,240
Also check out our Instagram because we always put pictures on there.
852
00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:48,240
Yeah.
853
00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:52,240
Our Instagram alike, a follow is always appreciated.
854
00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:57,840
And thank you, you MVP for listening all the way through this adventure.
855
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:58,840
The lighthouse.
856
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