1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 I'm Vince. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,000 I'm Emily. 3 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:13,920 And you're listening to The Lighthouse Lowdown. 4 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:18,680 Lighthouses represent the living, real history and culture of the communities they serve. 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,840 They stand tall, regardless of their stature. 6 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,860 They're valued threads in the fabric of culture. 7 00:00:24,860 --> 00:00:29,240 They bind the traditions and stories of each community together. 8 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,840 Every single person I have ever spoken to about their local lighthouse has had kind 9 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:37,560 regard, respect, and fond emotions surrounding their beacon. 10 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:43,280 While many of lights have, in the past, served to warn of hazards, to keep away, to avoid 11 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,780 contact, today they call us in. 12 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:52,640 Lighthouses serve now as a meeting place, a safe harbor, a path to our past. 13 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:58,040 As constant symbols of the best of each generation, lighthouses today need us, as we have needed 14 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,160 them for so many years in the past. 15 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:06,520 To keep the flame alight, to keep the lights on, and to keep the stories alive. 16 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:10,560 There's a constant need for support within the lighthouse community today. 17 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:15,800 The best way to do so is to visit, volunteer, donate, and tour. 18 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,640 Today we're talking about lighthouse tourism in the United States. 19 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,680 Okay, Ty, that's pretty. 20 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:22,680 Isn't that cool? 21 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:23,680 Did you write that? 22 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:24,680 I did. 23 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:25,680 Wow. 24 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:26,680 Very nice. 25 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:27,680 It's true. 26 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:34,560 Lighthouses run on donations, and that comes in the form of showing up and paying to get 27 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:35,560 in. 28 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:36,560 Yes. 29 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:42,920 Well, I just, I wanted to talk about, obviously, lighthouse tourism, but I wanted to, I wanted 30 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:48,580 to write to myself, not, I wasn't planning to read this, but to see why I'm doing this, 31 00:01:48,580 --> 00:01:49,880 why I want to have this conversation. 32 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:54,920 It's not just a, this is something you can do, but what gets me excited about it, what 33 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:56,000 makes me think about it. 34 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,880 So I wrote it to myself, and then I wrote it to write to you, to say to you. 35 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,680 We wrote to write to say. 36 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:04,680 Yes. 37 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,600 And as customary, I will now talk about our lighthouse buoy of the day. 38 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:09,600 Okay. 39 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:10,960 First of all, it's called history buoy. 40 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:12,840 I don't know what's going on with you today. 41 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,640 Oh, it's written as history buoy. 42 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:17,140 We should tell everybody it's Friday. 43 00:02:17,140 --> 00:02:19,440 We just got off work and it was a full week. 44 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:21,000 So here we are talking line houses. 45 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Yeah. 46 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,920 After work on a Friday is a rough time, but there's, we have. 47 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:29,640 Boy, and see in our souls because it's weekend. 48 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:30,640 Yes. 49 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:31,640 And I made some espresso. 50 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:32,640 Yeah. 51 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:37,400 I offered Starbucks and Vince still wanted to make at home coffee and it's, it's pretty 52 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:38,400 good. 53 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:39,400 It's pretty good. 54 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:40,400 It's not Starbucks. 55 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,400 It's different. 56 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:42,400 It's hot. 57 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:43,400 Boston. 58 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:49,520 So I'm going to take over the screen with my other screen for a minute to show you where 59 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:50,520 I'm going. 60 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:56,280 So we're going to lighthouse patents on the U S LHS website, which is United States lighthouse 61 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,840 society for those of you who have not listened, I just went and found a random patent because 62 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,360 I thought it was super cool and I got sucked into this thing. 63 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,120 So we're going to talk about the Stuart improvement and fog signals patent. 64 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:09,120 These. 65 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:10,120 Okay. 66 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:11,120 So how many do they have? 67 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:12,120 They have like so many patents. 68 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,120 Yeah. 69 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,080 So it's one of their, one of their resources, lighthouse technology. 70 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:18,080 Okay. 71 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:23,680 So are these, are these like patents that they've adopted like in lighthouses or something? 72 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:24,680 Yeah. 73 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:26,080 I mean, it's a historical record. 74 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:31,640 So yeah, these are, if you go to the, this website and then go to resources, I love their 75 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:35,480 resources page because I'm a lighthouse nerd as are many of you. 76 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:36,480 And I'm also an engineer. 77 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,920 So I saw lighthouse technology and I was like pumped up. 78 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,120 My favorite history I've done. 79 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:43,280 Wow. 80 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:49,240 My favorite history buoy that I've done so far was lightning rods, which did not come 81 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:55,480 from this source, but I was just super excited because it's technology and historical technology 82 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:56,480 is cool. 83 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,920 Also, we don't know how, like how we got to where we are now. 84 00:03:58,920 --> 00:03:59,920 Yeah. 85 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:00,920 Okay. 86 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:01,920 I am excited about this one. 87 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,480 So this is some diagrams that are part of Stuart. 88 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:07,480 I'm just going to call them Stuart. 89 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,400 It's his last name, but wrote this whole thing invented and wrote this whole thing. 90 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:12,400 Okay. 91 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:17,920 These are some images and then below, if you want to read, I read this whole thing and 92 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:24,800 I won't read it to you now, but basically it's an improvement in fog signals, 1873. 93 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,160 So awesome lighthouse era. 94 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:36,120 And this is super cool because I'm a mechanical engineer and this dude is very innovative 95 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,680 and I would love to have seen something like this work. 96 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:44,640 So basically what the point of it is, it describes the problem early in the patent description 97 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:53,320 as there are many ways to charge the use of a fog signal, like either a bell or a whistle 98 00:04:53,320 --> 00:05:00,280 and to store the energy to be expended, to emit the noise, but they mostly rely at the 99 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,360 time, they mostly relied on waves. 100 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:07,020 So as a storm would come in, the waves would pick up and go back down and that continuous 101 00:05:07,020 --> 00:05:10,840 motion would provide a float with motion. 102 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:15,720 The float would drive the system that drives either the steam whistle or the fog bell. 103 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,060 This is a similar system, except it's designed to work at all times. 104 00:05:20,060 --> 00:05:27,040 So not every storm or not every fog condition rather has big waves, but what's always going 105 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,560 on with the ocean is the tide, the movement of tide. 106 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:37,000 So this over time uses a float, which is labeled as figure A. If you're looking at the ocean, 107 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:42,680 the image in figure one, letter A uses this as basically a box and they talk about the 108 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,640 different configurations it could be, but this is a float. 109 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:50,740 So as the tide rise and fall, the float goes up and down. 110 00:05:50,740 --> 00:05:56,960 It moves a lever arm, which moves a set of hooks that come down to connect to the lever 111 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:05,440 arm and it winds a set of gears, which use weights, falling weights as in clockwork to 112 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:06,920 store energy. 113 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:12,120 So over time, this lever goes up and down and it actually acts as a ratchet, you know, 114 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:16,520 where it clicks one way, but not the other and picks up the weight. 115 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:21,680 And then when you need to activate it, the fall of the weight and he goes on to say that's 116 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:26,400 not part of the patent that can be done using modern clockworks of the time to use different 117 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,060 weights or different velocities or different whatever. 118 00:06:29,060 --> 00:06:34,560 But basically this thing can just be stationary, no electricity all the time. 119 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:42,480 It's taking the tide of the ocean water and storing it as potential energy in a falling 120 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,680 weight, which I think is super cool. 121 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:51,680 So the unique part of it is that it ratchets and it uses this set of hooks that come down. 122 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:56,160 And then once the hooks get to the bottom, there's a shape that's described down here 123 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,520 and the shape spreads those hooks and they disengage. 124 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:03,960 So it goes once and once and once every time the waves go up and down, but it's not waves, 125 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:04,960 it's tide. 126 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,680 So it's a slower constant weight to store energy. 127 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,280 I don't know if this was a successful use. 128 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:17,760 I don't know anywhere that it was used specifically, but I just saw this and read through it and 129 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,080 I super nerded out. 130 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:20,080 It's so cool. 131 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:21,080 There's witnesses. 132 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,560 It's pretty cool that you can just read through them. 133 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:24,560 Yeah. 134 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:25,560 1873. 135 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:29,040 It's very technical writing, still fully understand everything. 136 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:34,800 I think there's one word I did not know, which makes you feel stoops, but I thought it was 137 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:35,800 super cool. 138 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,200 I wonder what you get for a patent. 139 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:39,200 Grapple hooks. 140 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,200 Bifurcated? 141 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:41,200 Bifurcated? 142 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:42,200 No, I know that one. 143 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:43,200 What is it? 144 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:44,200 It means split. 145 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:45,200 That's it? 146 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:46,200 Split evenly. 147 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:47,200 Yeah. 148 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:48,200 Why do they just say split? 149 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:49,200 Use a lot of fancy words. 150 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:50,200 Stupid. 151 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:51,200 Yeah. 152 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,600 I'm aware that the latter may be employed with closely approximate results and I therefore 153 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:01,440 do not limit myself to actuating weights per se as springs are considered as equivalent 154 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,600 thereof and employed in similar connection. 155 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,400 Springs were way out more, wouldn't they? 156 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:07,400 They were out, yeah. 157 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:12,000 Especially at the time, spring metal was not as good, but I just thought this is cool. 158 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Very cool. 159 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,640 Now I kind of want to look through all of them and see, especially ones like that they 160 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,680 have Winslow Lewis's reflector. 161 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:21,680 They were everywhere. 162 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,040 I wonder if the Fresnel lens was patented. 163 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,880 There's lens technology in there. 164 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:27,880 Tourism. 165 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:33,400 So you want to go on a trip and you want to see a lighthouse too. 166 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,000 So you want to go on a trip, do you? 167 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:41,840 The good news is for us in the United States, all but 19 states have lighthouses. 168 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,400 They're all just snuggled up in there in the middle. 169 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,000 I mean, anywhere there's coastline, right? 170 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Oceans. 171 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Oceans. 172 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000 I don't know. 173 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,600 I mean, Gulf and the Great Lakes all have lighthouses. 174 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,120 And I would still like to see Kansas have a lighthouse, maybe Missouri. 175 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:00,320 We don't have a reason. 176 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:01,320 Come on. 177 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:02,320 We've got like Table Rock Lake. 178 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:03,480 There's some lakes. 179 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:07,280 I'm sure there's a tiny lighthouse somewhere on Lake of the Ozarks. 180 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:08,280 Yeah. 181 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:09,280 Someone's backyard. 182 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:10,280 Exactly. 183 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,640 So this is sourced from Lighthouse Friends, which is a website. 184 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:15,640 They do a great job. 185 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:16,640 Yeah, they do. 186 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,820 And then here I jumped. 187 00:09:18,820 --> 00:09:21,520 Let's say you click on the state of North Carolina. 188 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,400 I chose this because we've been to here. 189 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,280 So you click on the state and it takes you to a Google map that they've set up, which 190 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,040 is just awesome. 191 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:35,080 All the black lighthouses, black and white that are shown on their map are no longer 192 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:36,080 standing. 193 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:37,080 What? 194 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:38,080 That sucks. 195 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:39,080 Yeah. 196 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,120 There's black icons for lighthouses no longer standing. 197 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:42,120 Yep. 198 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:50,480 You know, this makes me sad because being born in the 1990s, we've missed out. 199 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,000 You know, we've been born in the 1890s. 200 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,720 Yeah, but we got our own stuff. 201 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:59,200 Like what? 202 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:04,120 Cell phones, social media, music, television. 203 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:05,320 I want Grant's Island Lighthouse back. 204 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,720 I want Campbell Island Lighthouse back. 205 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:08,720 Well. 206 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:09,720 I want Beacon Island Lighthouse back. 207 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:14,080 You can click on any of these and I'll take you to the Lighthouse Friends web page for 208 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:15,080 that lighthouse. 209 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:16,080 I didn't know. 210 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:17,800 So where do you find this map? 211 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:18,920 Lighthouse friends dot com. 212 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,440 Just like on the front cover or? 213 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:22,440 It's in there. 214 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:23,440 Yeah. 215 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:24,440 I don't know exactly. 216 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:26,920 But that's really cool. 217 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:27,920 Let's see. 218 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:28,920 Yeah. 219 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:29,920 Lighthouse friends dot com. 220 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,880 The very main thing that comes up is maps, lighthouse maps also has Canada on here. 221 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:35,880 It's cool. 222 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:36,880 That is nice. 223 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:37,880 Cool. 224 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:38,880 Off here. 225 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:39,880 So that's a resource for you. 226 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:44,840 If you want to think about travel in general in the U.S., that's a place to start. 227 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:49,680 So why would someone want to see a lighthouse on their vacation? 228 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:50,680 Because we love lighthouses. 229 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:53,160 Because they listen to our podcast. 230 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:54,160 That's a simple answer. 231 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:55,800 But there's a lot of reasons. 232 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,280 Some of them, some of them. 233 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,120 I'd like you to weigh in. 234 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,520 They're always a hub of history. 235 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:02,840 Like all the time. 236 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:03,840 I don't know. 237 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:04,840 Long Point Lighthouse. 238 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:06,840 I saw this on a website and I was like, you know what? 239 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:08,560 These kids right here. 240 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:09,560 Probably kids. 241 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:10,560 Maybe they're small men or women. 242 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:11,560 I don't know. 243 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:12,560 There's history there. 244 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:18,040 There's probably a long history at every lighthouse, especially the one still standing. 245 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:24,000 Some of the culture you get to experience in tourism of lighthouses is less touristy, 246 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,160 less touristy and more local. 247 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,440 I mean, a lot like we've talked about this. 248 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,040 I've talked about it too many times, but the local culture of lighthouses is what's really 249 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:34,040 important. 250 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:35,040 Yeah. 251 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,440 It's very niche subject. 252 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:37,440 Yeah. 253 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:38,960 They're run by volunteers. 254 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:44,560 If you do support them, you're usually supporting the local economy, which is good. 255 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:48,480 Lighthouses are almost always a photo and video hotspot. 256 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,200 Thanks to Instagram and YouTube and literally all of the internet. 257 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:53,200 Scenic. 258 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:54,200 Scenic. 259 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:55,360 Very pretty places. 260 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,160 I say that they can make a physical memory for you and the kids. 261 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:06,320 So one of our neighbors in our area here near the RipRap studio has a Cape Hatteras stained 262 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:10,960 glass art piece hanging in their window, among other pieces. 263 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:14,340 They had a garage sit when I stopped by and that was not for sale. 264 00:12:14,340 --> 00:12:20,000 But I did talk to the lady and she was probably in her seventies or eighties and she was talking 265 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,640 about, yeah, I don't, I don't know where that lighthouse is at, but we went there as kids 266 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,280 and her sister was there and I was like, I know where it's at. 267 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:29,280 We went there as kids. 268 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:30,280 It's like memorable. 269 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:31,280 It sticks with you. 270 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:36,300 They remember it from long ago in their lives and it was a special thing for them. 271 00:12:36,300 --> 00:12:39,200 And they don't even know where it's at, but they hold onto that piece of art. 272 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:40,920 I think that's just kind of common. 273 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:45,040 Not everybody's a huge lighthouse nerd like we are, but I think that that impression can 274 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:46,840 last with a lot of people. 275 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:47,840 Yeah, for sure. 276 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:48,840 Especially young kids. 277 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:49,840 Yes. 278 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,920 Cause it's so, it's usually, I mean, some of them are short, but they're still like, 279 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:57,560 it's like a very strange, impactful sort of building. 280 00:12:57,560 --> 00:12:58,560 Yeah. 281 00:12:58,560 --> 00:12:59,560 Yeah. 282 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:01,360 They're not, there's, there's no lighthouses commonplace. 283 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:02,360 Yeah. 284 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,760 And a lot of, a lot of times you have to seek them out because they're not. 285 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:06,760 Yeah. 286 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:08,120 They're not in the middle of things. 287 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:13,360 It's not like going to see like a popular museum or a park or something. 288 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:14,520 Right. 289 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,880 They're good for getting on your feet while you're on vacation. 290 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:17,880 That's true. 291 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,480 You are almost doing walking tours every time. 292 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,080 Some of them you can climb, which is good for your health. 293 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaking of walking tours, long, long point is the name of the lighthouse that's on long 294 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:34,640 point in Massachusetts. 295 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:35,640 No shit. 296 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:36,640 No, no. 297 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:44,240 I'm done. 298 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:46,240 I'm totally expired. 299 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:50,720 Listen, we are going to walk there, go across the dike, see Woodend. 300 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,920 And then you see a long point lighthouse, but there, it doesn't look anything like that. 301 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,280 But that's true for a lot of lighthouses in Massachusetts. 302 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,160 I think this one's gone and replaced. 303 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,040 With the one that we have. 304 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:03,040 Interesting. 305 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:04,240 I did a really bad job. 306 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,600 I had some photos I put together to click through and kind of talk about cool stuff. 307 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:09,680 It's not a bad job. 308 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:13,840 This is a good opportunity to pull up random lighthouses and be like, look how cool this 309 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:14,840 is. 310 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:15,840 Especially AT40. 311 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:16,840 Okay. 312 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:18,520 I'm back on. 313 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:19,920 Beautiful views, right? 314 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:20,920 All the time. 315 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:22,320 Goes along with the beachfront. 316 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:26,840 They're always, almost, on a beach, which people like. 317 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:27,840 Or there's a beach nearby. 318 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:28,840 Beaches. 319 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:29,840 I don't know. 320 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,600 I mean, you could spend an hour, if you have a vacation, right, you could spend an hour 321 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,520 at a stop, even less. 322 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:38,280 You could spend a day, you could spend weeks just doing lighthouse tours. 323 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:43,480 In fact, we'll talk about it later, but there are specific tours to see lighthouses, both 324 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:46,800 sponsored by the United States Lighthouse Society and others. 325 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:47,800 Yeah. 326 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:49,640 So you can really get into it if you want. 327 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:54,360 And you know, they have a lot of things like you just pay someone. 328 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:55,360 Okay. 329 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,840 Let me collect my thoughts. 330 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:05,680 There are some ferries that you can pay for a ticket and the ferry goes around to like 331 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,360 four or five different lighthouses. 332 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,600 So you just sit on a boat, hang out. 333 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,120 Sometimes they got food, drinks, a lighthouse cruise. 334 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:17,360 That's what the cruise, I couldn't think of the word, but yeah, you're going to go around 335 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:18,960 and they tell you the history and everything. 336 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:23,960 That's such a cool thing you could pay for to go on a trip somewhere and see some lighthouses. 337 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:25,560 Well, there's opportunity too. 338 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,280 I mean, thinking of thinking of the word cruise. 339 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:34,080 We talked to our guy, the Bahamas, Toby Smith. 340 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:35,080 Toby Smith. 341 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:36,080 Yes. 342 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,440 And I saw an article recently that he's still pursuing that. 343 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:39,440 Oh, good. 344 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:40,440 Yeah. 345 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:41,440 So listen to that. 346 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:42,680 Listen to that episode. 347 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,600 But we talked to him. 348 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:50,420 Every cruise ship that comes into Nassau, Bahamas goes right past what is his lighthouse. 349 00:15:50,420 --> 00:15:52,360 But it's also, I mean, it's the people's lighthouse, right? 350 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,320 He owns the land, but it's a missed opportunity. 351 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,720 There's no one going to visit there right now. 352 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,880 And all those cruise ships coming in and out, going right by. 353 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:05,360 And there's some really, really great photos of this lighthouse of people passing by on 354 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,360 a cruise because they're so high up on the cruise ships that it looks like drone footage. 355 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:10,520 So they get really good pictures of it. 356 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,840 And then they don't even get a chance to go and see it. 357 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:19,240 Like there should be some big billboard that's like, when you get off at the harbor, come 358 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:20,240 on over. 359 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:21,240 Yeah. 360 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:22,240 Well, and it doesn't need to be the main attraction. 361 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:27,240 Of course, there's many other things to see, but it's the lighthouse. 362 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:28,240 It's cool. 363 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:32,200 I just wish there's opportunities like that out there that are not yet developed. 364 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,200 And people like Toby Smith are working on that. 365 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:38,480 But man, if you do have the opportunity, consider it special. 366 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,120 Like I just went through a slide we talked about. 367 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,200 It showed St. Augustine lighthouse. 368 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:47,760 And a lot of people in our community know of St. Augustine and how well they've done 369 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,400 with their tourism development. 370 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,500 It's they've done a fantastic job. 371 00:16:51,500 --> 00:16:52,500 So there's more opportunities. 372 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:53,500 I think it's cool. 373 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:58,720 The last thing I have on the reasons to go, it might not be there forever. 374 00:16:58,720 --> 00:16:59,720 Yeah. 375 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:00,720 Which is really unfortunate. 376 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:05,320 So sad, especially like places like Maine right now are really struggling because their 377 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:10,120 lighthouse is getting beat crap with storms and things like the intensity of these storms 378 00:17:10,120 --> 00:17:11,440 is causing real damage. 379 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,440 And there's no promise that the lighthouse is going to be able to recover. 380 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:20,140 You know, that's we take for granted that they're still here after all these years. 381 00:17:20,140 --> 00:17:27,680 But that does mean that that's many years of corrosion or wood rot or, you know, stones 382 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,520 cracking, crumbling the earth, erosions. 383 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:37,240 It's all like 150 years of being on the edge of rough seas takes its toll. 384 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:43,360 So I know we need people to go so that they can pay for restorations. 385 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:44,920 So I've said my piece. 386 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,440 It's a nice picture. 387 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:51,600 I'm not too sure this is AI, but I'm all right with it. 388 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,600 So to a spreadsheet. 389 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,040 All right. 390 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:57,800 You need to plan your trip. 391 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,600 I've really boiled myself down, folks. 392 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,400 I've come up with just three things. 393 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:02,400 Oh, wow. 394 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:04,640 You need one of the financial budget. 395 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:09,720 That's what that's not what your spreadsheets do not scream three simple steps. 396 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:10,720 Yeah. 397 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:11,720 Break it down to spreadsheets. 398 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:12,720 They're color coded. 399 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:13,800 It's all linked to things. 400 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:14,800 It's wonderful. 401 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:15,800 OK. 402 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,920 I'm going to talk about this to what's on screen, but you need a financial budget because 403 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:22,440 for almost everybody out there that matters. 404 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:27,720 You need a time budget, which again, if you're retired, I envy you in some ways. 405 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,620 And then you have a must have, must do, must see list. 406 00:18:31,620 --> 00:18:37,100 So if you've already planned a trip, there's some resources for you. 407 00:18:37,100 --> 00:18:39,120 But that is what you want to narrow down to. 408 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,580 We're going to come back to the spreadsheet as far as discussion goes. 409 00:18:42,580 --> 00:18:46,640 If you've already planned a trip, a couple of things I recommend search the Internet 410 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,560 for lighthouses along your route. 411 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:54,160 It's the most modern, most updated, probably widest set of resources. 412 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:58,920 The best thing I would say actually on this list, it's bolded is ask a local if you have 413 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:04,040 an opportunity, write an email, reach out to somebody, make a phone call. 414 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:05,360 And I have this on screen now. 415 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:07,340 Take a tour of Maryland's lighthouses. 416 00:19:07,340 --> 00:19:11,340 This is from visit Maryland dot com or whatever that whatever their name is. 417 00:19:11,340 --> 00:19:13,480 But it's a state sponsored tourism. 418 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:15,040 You know, come see Kansas. 419 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:19,080 We don't have lighthouses, but every state has this opportunity. 420 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:20,520 Yeah, like hot spots. 421 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,560 They all have that info. 422 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,760 And a note that a lot of lighthouses, not a lot. 423 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:30,720 OK, but some lighthouses don't show up on Google when you go to a spot and type in lighthouses 424 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:36,120 and click enter sometimes because they're labeled on Google as like light stations or 425 00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:39,680 something, you know, or they just don't show up for some reason. 426 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:44,760 So you have to do like a little bit more of a search than just putting it into the maps. 427 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:49,760 Well, and on the Web, I'd say USLHS dot org, Lighthouse Friends. 428 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:53,420 I think it's dot com state tourism websites. 429 00:19:53,420 --> 00:19:56,240 And then, of course, the Lighthouse Lowdown podcast. 430 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:00,520 We're doing more to develop areas of interest that you could put them together. 431 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:04,400 And like the Outer Banks, North Carolina is one we did early on. 432 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,960 A bunch of awesome lighthouses. 433 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:11,840 Also, if you're a reader, we have met a couple of authors that we've had as friends of the 434 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:12,840 Lighthouse Lowdown. 435 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:17,920 Fred Stonehouse and Jeremy Dattremont are both authors of several books. 436 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:19,840 I didn't know that about Jeremy until recently. 437 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:23,560 But there's other ways to take it in if you're tired of just looking at your screen. 438 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,280 So that's if you have a trip planned. 439 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,440 Yeah, to integrate little lighthouses. 440 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:28,720 We're next to water somewhere. 441 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,880 There's probably a lighthouse even in Boston. 442 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,760 I saw I noticed California doesn't have as many lighthouses as they want them to have. 443 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:36,760 It's a big state. 444 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:42,520 You go into California and there's no LA and there's no lighthouses nearby. 445 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:43,520 What's up with that? 446 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:44,520 I don't know. 447 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,800 LA, can you tell us? 448 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:48,800 Shame on you. 449 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:54,000 So if you're up to plan a trip, I would my tastes are obvious. 450 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,760 I would listen to podcasts or watch YouTube videos about traveling to your areas of interest. 451 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:04,200 There's lots of producers, us and others that cover that type of content. 452 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:09,840 Take an area based on your time and financial budgets, plot out all of your options, everything 453 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,960 that you would be interested in seeing, and then cut it down to a tenable list. 454 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,460 That's my hardest part. 455 00:21:16,460 --> 00:21:18,800 And then I say, see our video for an example. 456 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:24,560 So all this is building into Emily and I are going on another lighthouse trip. 457 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:25,560 We're very excited. 458 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,480 We're going to the Cape Cod area. 459 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:30,480 It's going to be fun. 460 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:31,960 We're about to be living the dream. 461 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,240 We're really excited. 462 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:34,600 I have a video. 463 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,200 It's going to be posted on YouTube as well. 464 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:38,760 We have audio with it as well. 465 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:39,760 Sorry, what? 466 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:44,160 That video of our discussion where we talked about lifehouses and our trips. 467 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:45,160 Okay. 468 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,920 And I'm going to go back on screen. 469 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,880 We're so tired. 470 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,520 So this spreadsheet, everybody loves the spreadsheet. 471 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:54,520 If you want it, reach out to me. 472 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:55,520 Oh, slow down at gmail.com. 473 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,520 You're going to sell your commodities. 474 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,240 No, I'm giving it away. 475 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:00,240 It's a Google sheet. 476 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,400 So I'll just send you a link and you can make your own. 477 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,920 But basically what I've done here, it's one of several tabs. 478 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:08,080 You're welcome. 479 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,240 And basically it sums up. 480 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,240 We wanted to go somewhere. 481 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:17,520 As you can see the title of this one, Pacific Northwest Lighthouse Loop of 2024. 482 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,200 This was not the winner of this time. 483 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,920 Not even close. 484 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:24,920 I wanted this one. 485 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:25,920 Obviously it's a competition. 486 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:26,920 This is my top pick. 487 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:27,920 We went with Emily's top pick. 488 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:28,920 We chose my option. 489 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:37,880 And there's multiple tabs. 490 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:42,680 Basically I put together a Google map that shows where we would drive, where we'd fly 491 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:43,680 into. 492 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,320 I picked hotels that I thought looked cool, what the rental car was going to cost. 493 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,340 And I did gas estimates, food estimates, entertainment, other in total. 494 00:22:51,340 --> 00:22:53,940 So this is finances we're looking at. 495 00:22:53,940 --> 00:22:57,800 And for we're trying to do it on the cheap kind of. 496 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:02,840 Which is hard because since lighthouses are on the water, they tend to lean more touristy 497 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:03,840 places. 498 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:07,720 Like Cape Cod's super touristy, super affluent. 499 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:14,080 And so our food and lodging costs are way higher than if we decided to go somewhere 500 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:15,080 where it wasn't. 501 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:16,880 Keep in mind we're from Kansas City. 502 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:20,040 So anywhere we can drive anywhere. 503 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,760 But Chicago is far for us. 504 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,160 And even though we're both in the Midwest according to the rest of the world. 505 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,160 Are we not Midwest? 506 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,840 I would say that we're in the Midwest and Chicago is in the East. 507 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 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:15,160 XiaoLin 컨, Tencent.