Before I started my web business people would suggest to me that I need to write a book. So I naturally chose the world wide web. Now, over a decade later, they are still asking the same question. “Why don’t you write a book on this stuff?”
I say “I did, it’s on the internet. Go look.”
Total Escape was created in the web 1.0 days (1996), so I could easily keep track of my many travels, destinations, my recommendations, my travel logs, photos, camping, roads, sign, maps, all of it. I worked my day job doing 3D & then moonlighted starting this small web biz. Needing to update outdoor info instantly was my biggest draw to the internet format at first. Secondly, it was the ability to work from anywhere, a home office.
No toxic inks, no news paper. No glossy mag. No waste. Just free digital energy on the outdoor destinations, transferred across the cyber waves.
Then came the seasonal magazine ideas from sources in San Diego. By late 2003, none of them had solidified.
Personally, I had already had my share of inks, papers & paints in art college. I was fully aware of the web in the early 90’s. I was ready for the computer age & the internet. Eager in fact! Ready to make that leap from graphics & print concepts over to web windows was all I thought about for years. I did not want to print anything; waste anything. I wanted my biz to be state of the art, futuristic – so here I am, 12 year later. Total Escape is now over 3000 individual pages. Thousands of photos, hundreds of destinations, all local to California. All by itself, Total Escape is a Parks and Recreation Magazine online.
DanaMite
Total Escape – California, Off the Beaten Path
http://www.totalescape.com
California Photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danamite/sets/
