New Year Brings New Changes

Hello 2020!! Just recently my husband and I ventured to Tacoma WA over Christmas to see our daughter and family.  It's always fun to visit new places, yet we're not big travelers.  If my site was about our travels via flying, I might was well give this up. We do travel back roads a great deal and it's because of that, this directory got it's start.

While we were there, my daughter knows I'm all about local business, new, quaint, and special little businesses.  Our first visit the morning after arrival was a favorite donut shop of theirs.  (Sidenote here: I noticed the business calls them "doughnuts" and out in the Midwest, we call them donuts.  Now I have to know if that has to do with locations much like soda versus pop. Ha! Does it matter? No but it's how my brain works! )

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Legendary Doughnuts was an amazing little shop full of doughnuts, calories, and unique decadent little goodies; so much so that you wanted to try each one.  Bakeries and donut shops are getting with it I notice, because I had been in a similar one in Tucson AZ, yet this one had more of a personal touch to it. These donuts were more along a gourmet specialty type for lack of a better way to describe them. The menu offered so much more in way of selections, but we were only there for their amazing donuts. Unbelievably amazing.

Near there were some murals and my husband drew my attention to them. There were a great deal of murals on older brick walls throughout the suburbs. Murals have been on my mind lately because it's been the talk of Ec.Developers to create them in our communities.  It is a terrific idea because it brightens up the community, pulls everyone together to work on a project, and like some communities such as Faulkton, SD people come just to see the murals. That is a part of economic development; to pull travelers into the community.

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With the visit to this donut shop and seeing local murals, I've decided to expand our locations for the directory listings across the country.  The murals are on the Destinations page on the menu.  More small local businesses/services outside the borders of SD are going to be included too. I love experiencing them all--all "diamonds in the rough" around the country. I know, without a doubt, everyone has been to one of those places they'd love to tell others about. Since that is how I started this whole business; let's do it!  Another one I shared is Bite Me BBQ in Witcha KS.  I'm not a ribs eater, but oh my gosh, I'll turn into one there.  You want to hit up this locally owned restaurant downtown Wichita.  I realize that we don't all go in the same directions, but you never know...

Another, not to be forgotten, is a change in my pricing. Since starting my online directory, pricing has been difficult for me to figure out (a trail needing blazed).  The business owners come first and my time to promote second, hence the pricing change. So for businesses to be promoted in Travel Backroads, they only pay a one time membership fee. It's affordable, quick, easy and the way to go.  If in the future a business wants to update pictures, information, add more or less, it's a very minimal fee to do so of the Ala Carte menu. Also again; chambers of commerce, clusters of towns, commercial and community clubs can be listed on the Destinations page; Events too and Stories.  I am fiercely loyal to local business.  If we do not promote them and leave their support up to just their local towns people--they are in trouble. Let's collaborate!

I hope you'll take me up on this and get your business listed.
Hoping for a great, healthy, prosperous New Year for all!

Driving the Passion to Go Local
Joan

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