Our market is national. All of us (in the industry) want to live here. We love the outdoors, and what greater place is there to live than the Pacific Northwest?

Parents seem to want to provide things, especially experiences, for their kids that maybe they didn't have growing up. And since 9/11, SARS, the tsunami and Katrina, it seems people have a feeling of living more in the moment.

People want more meaningful travel experiences and they are finding them in interactions with people from different cultures. More than half of our clients come to us for cultural travel.

Some only have a dung hut to stay in.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

We got a nice batch early in the year, but the long-range outlook had us warmer than normal, so this shouldn't be too much of a surprise.