Posts Tagged ‘eGuides’

It’s that time of year again: Snow has come to Flagstaff, AZ. And that means that the updated 2011-2012 Flagstaff Snow Guide is now available.

As always, this is a 100% free publication. All you have to do is provide your email address so I can send you any updates that might occur over the course of the snow season.

Flagstaff is the MUST-VISIT Arizona winter destination for all things snow: sledding, skiing, snowboarding, and snow play. There are even places to cross country ski, snowshoe, and ride snowmobiles. In Arizona! (Crazy, I know!)

Your eGuide is a 32 page printable Adobe .pdf book. It is Mac and PC compatible and you can print it all, a selection of pages, or save it to your laptop computer to take with you.

Do you own a Flagstaff business? Would you like to promote it in the Snow Guide? Contact Kim at Info@EatStayPlay.com Pricing starts at just $50 for an ad that will be seen by THOUSANDS of Flagstaff winter visitors.

Download yours today!

If there’s one thing I love, it’s adding new products to the EatStayPlay.com Shop. And this week I’m not just promoting one new product but TWO!

 

Payson Recreation Guide

The first is Payson Recreation Guide. This guide is another of the free eGuides that focuses on outdoor recreation for an Arizona city. Payson is the “Heart of Arizona.” Visitors who arrive at this north-central Arizona town during any of the area’s four distinct seasons will find a multitude of choices for outdoor recreation from hiking, fishing, hunting, and camping to exploring wilderness areas

Payson, Arizona also offers a wide variety of trails for hiking, mountain biking or riding horses.  Plus, Payson is surrounded by THREE National Forests for endless outdoor recreation fun.

Get the Payson Recreation Guide today! Free!

 

Camp Cooking with Joanne Fitterer

Mrs. Fitterer is a personal friend of mine and I’ve known her for nearly 20 years. (Not sure if that makes me old or not!)

She is a retired culinary arts teacher from Chino Valley High School and we’ve teamed up to bring you an exclusive cookbook filled with great outdoor cooking recipes.

“Camp Cooking with Joanne Fitterer” has great recipes like Campfire Pepperoni Pizza, Hotdog Kabobs with Sweet and Sour Sauce, Cinnamon French Toast, Easy Cheese Drop Biscuits, and more! Sections include Breckfast, Main Meals, Side Dishes, Desserts, and 4 great Extras.

Download Camp Cooking with Joanne Fitterer today. Only $1.99.

Just in time for FREE TUESDAY!

That’s right, the Grand Canyon National Park will be waiving it’s entry fees tomorrow, Tuesday June 21, 2011. You’ll not only save the $25-per-vehicle entry fee on Tuesday–you can also attend a free stargazing party, with astronomers on hand to demystify the night sky.

You can get your FREE guide to the Grand Canyon: North & South Rims from EatStayPlay.com.

The Grand Canyon Recreation Guide is an instant-download e-book. It has over 45 pages of information and covers both rims. The Grand Canyon Recreation Guide is the ONLY recreation guide to do that!

And, the best news? It’s FREE!

Your eGuide is a 48 page printable Adobe .pdf book. It is Mac and PC compatible and you can print it all, a selection of pages, or save it to your laptop computer to take with you.

Do you own a Grand Canyon business? Would you like to promote it in the Guide? Contact Kim at Info@EatStayPlay.com Pricing starts at just $50 for an ad that will be seen by THOUSANDS of visitors.

Star Party
Free stargazing events are scheduled each night at the park through June 25.

On Tuesday, the 21st Grand Canyon Star Party event will start at 8:10 p.m. on the Grand Canyon’s South Rim with a slide show inside the visitor center, followed by telescope viewing. Volunteers from amateur astronomer clubs help visitors pick out Saturn and other stars and galaxies, according to the park’s website.

On the North Rim, telescopes are set up on the porch of the Grand Canyon Lodge.

I know you’re probably tired of hearing about my series of eGuides for popular summer recreation areas across Arizona’s High Country. But trust me, each is jam-packed with information about the best camping, fishing, hiking, and public lands that the city has to offer.

Plus special offers from businesses!

The newest title to join the cart is the Williams Recreation Guide!

This e-book is the must-have, insider’s knowledge of where to go in Williams for the best in summer recreation. It’s filled with over 40 pages of information, updated for the 2011 summer season.

And, the best news? You get it INSTANTLY as a downloadable, fully printable eGuide, FREE from the outdoor recreation experts at EatStayPlay.com.

• Lakes in Williams
• Historic Downtown including Route 66
• Williams Visitor Center and Museum
• White Horse Lake Recreation Area
• Kaibab Lake
• Maps, GPS Coordinates and Driving Directions
• Camping near Williams
• Selected hikes
• Kayaking, canoeing, and fishing
• And more!

Your eGuide is a 40 page printable Adobe .pdf book. It is Mac and PC compatible and you can print it all, a selection of pages, or save it to your laptop computer to take with you.

Do you own a Williams business? Would you like to promote it in the Guide? Contact Kim at Info@EatStayPlay.com Pricing starts at just $50 for an ad that will be seen by THOUSANDS of Williams visitors.

If you haven’t downloaded an eGuide yet then get busy! I am working on eGuides for popular summer recreation areas across Arizona’s High Country.

Each eGuide is a compilation of the best camping, fishing, hiking, and public lands that the city has to offer.

Go get the Flagstaff Recreation Guide!

 

This e-book is the must-have, insider’s knowledge of where to go in Flagstaff for the best in summer recreation. It’s jam-packed with over 50 pages of information, updated for the 2011 summer season.

And, the best news? You get it INSTANTLY as a downloadable, fully printable eGuide, FREE from the outdoor recreation experts at EatStayPlay.com.

• 3 National Monuments
• 2 State Parks
• Arboretum at Flagstaff
• Upper & Lower Lake Mary
• Volcanoes and Ruins Scenic Drive
• 7 Flagstaff Campgrounds
• Selected hikes
• Kayaking, canoeing, and fishing
• And more!

Your eGuide is a 52 page printable Adobe .pdf book. It is Mac and PC compatible and you can print it all, a selection of pages, or save it to your laptop computer to take with you.

Do you own a Flagstaff business? Would you like to promote it in the Guide? Contact Kim at Info@EatStayPlay.com Pricing starts at just $50 for an ad that will be seen by THOUSANDS of Flagstaff visitors.

I’ve been hard at work lately creating a series of eGuides for cities across Northern Arizona. Each eGuide is a compilation of the best camping, fishing, hiking, and public lands that the city has to offer.

The first eGuide is for Prescott Arizona and is available as a FREE download.

This e-book is the must-have, insider’s knowledge of where to go in Prescott for the best in summer recreation. It’s jam-packed with over 35 pages of information, updated for the 2011 summer season.

And, the best news? You get it INSTANTLY as a downloadable, fully printable eGuide, FREE from the outdoor recreation experts at EatStayPlay.com.  (That’s me!)

• 5 Lakes in Prescott
• Historic Downtown including Whiskey Row
• Sharlot Hall Museum
• Lynx Lake Recreation Area
• Watson Lake
• Thumb Butte
• Camping near Prescott
• Selected hikes
• Kayaking, canoeing, and fishing
• And more!

Not only will you get a detailed description of each attraction in Prescott, the information in the Prescott Recreation Guide also includes: how to get to the area, when it’s open, and if there are any fees or rules you need to know. Most pages also include full-color photos of the area so you can see the area before you visit it!

Do you own a Prescott business? Would you like to promote it in the Guide? Contact Kim at Info@EatStayPlay.com Pricing starts at just $50 for an ad that will be seen by THOUSANDS of Prescott visitors.

I just wanted to announce that EatStayPlay.com has a new shop! This is where you’ll be able to find all the cool eGuides that I write.

 

This is just a soft opening (since I can’t 100% guarantee that it will WORK). But I didn’t want to wait to have my readers check it out:

 

EatStayPlay.com/Shop

 

 

Right now, I have three eGuide titles available for download but more will be coming soon. At the moment, I am only accepting PayPal but I might look into other payment methods as well.

 

To celebrate the THREE WEEKS that it took to get the programming behind the shopping cart up and working, I’m offering a discount coupon of $2 off. (You can use it an unlimited number of times.)

 

The coupon is

 

TESTING

 

So go check it out! And PLEASE let me know if something is broken, not what you expected, doesn’t work, etc. The coupon will work until 5/31/11.

 

Future updates will include more eGuides, free downloads, and maybe even REAL products. (Of course, I’d have to figure out SHIPPPING… Oh well, maybe I’ll just do the free-shipping digital downloads for now!)

This recipe comes from the eGuide ‘Camp Cooking with Joanne Fitterer’. This title will be released from the EatStayPlay.com vault on November 22, 2010. It is an EatStayPlay.com exclusive and can ONLY be found here. But, from now through November 22nd, it is available at a 25% discount. The eGuide features 26 must-have camping recipes. Get it now for just $1.99!

INGREDIENTS

• 1 pound ground spicy pork sausage
• 6 eggs
• ¼ cup milk
• ½ cup chunky salsa
• ½ cup grated cheddar cheese
• 6 burrito size flour tortillas

In a medium sized skillet cook the pork sausage until no pink remains. Be sure to break the sausage into chunks as it is cooking. When the sausage is done, drain if needed, and then set aside. A plastic bowl covered with foil should keep the sausage warm.

In a bowl, combine the eggs and milk and mix well.

In the skillet, cook the eggs-milk mixture to make scrambled eggs.

Warm the tortillas. Then place 1/6 of cooked sausage and 1/6 of cooked eggs on center of tortilla. Top with salsa and sprinkle of cheddar cheese. Fold into burrito. Serve with additional salsa as desired.

Man! I wish I had had some of these on my Colorado River Kayaking trip. It would have been WAY better than freeze dried eggs.

‘Camp Cooking with Joanne Fitterer’ is a 22 page eGuide filled with great camp recipes and menus. You won’t be able to find Joanne’s camp cookbook anywhere else- it’s an EatStayPlay.com exclusive. Pre-order your copy today!

This story and others will appear in the eGuide “Campfire Stories: From the Chill to the Giggle” coming October 15, 2010. To pre-order your copy at a 30% discount please click here.

Pre-orders are only $3.46. Your eGuide will be delivered to your email inbox on October 15, 2010. At that time, the eGuide will go on sale for $4.95. Order yours today!

This story is best told by a male, but could be modified to use a male relative of the storyteller. It is best if you replace the place names with the names of places that your audience will recognize. Before telling this story around your campfire, be sure to practice it so you get the rhythm and timing correct.

As with any scary story, you’ll want to choose your audience carefully so you don’t keep anybody awake all night.

Props:

• White hanky

The Woman At the Bridge

A few years ago, I was driving home on a rainy summer evening. The wind was whipping the rain so it was nearly heading in sideways and I could hardly see out the windshield.

As I was coming to the Willow Bridge underpass, a figure in white stepped out from under the bridge and raised one hand. I quickly braked and just avoided splashing the person with water from a large puddle. I rolled down the passenger window to yell but was confronted with a beautiful young woman in a white dress, soaking wet.

“Do you need help?” I asked her. After all, who would be waiting under a bridge in a rain storm if they didn’t need help!

“Can you give me a ride into town?” She answered. I nodded and she opened the door and got in. I noticed that she was shivering so I offered her my coat that was sitting in the back seat. She wrapped it around herself as I continued on into town.

“What were you doing under that bridge?” I asked her.

“My boyfriend and I were at the movies. We got into a fight and I made him let me out of the car. Thank you for picking me up.”

To my discomfort, she started to cry. She pulled out a white hanky to dab at her eyes but it looked as wet as her dress.

I tried to get her to talk to me, but she just stared out the window and cried quietly. I vowed that if I ever met the lousy boyfriend who had left her under the bridge, I was going to break his nose!

My passenger shivered every now and again and pulled my coat tighter around her. I turned up the heater since I could tell she was still cold.

As we got into town, she started giving me directions to her home. But it was as if she didn’t really want to talk to me since she just said things like “Turn here” or “Take the next right.” Pretty soon we were on a nice street in a part of town I wasn’t really familiar with.

“This is my house,” she said quietly. As I pulled up to the curb, the rain was pouring down harder than ever. I got out quickly to open the door for her. But when I opened the door, there was nobody there. I looked around wondering if maybe she had gotten out of the car before I had come around the car but there was no sign of her.

Confused, I figured that she must have hurried into the house while I was coming to open the door for her. I went up to the house, noticing that no lights were on, and rang the doorbell.

After a moment, an old woman answered the door, wrapped in a bathrobe. I was a bit startled but said, “I just saw a young lady, all dressed in white. I think she went into this house.” But suddenly I wasn’t sure and felt the fool for waking up the lady.

“That was my daughter,” she said.

“I’m glad she made it home alright, then,” I answered and turned to go.

“No,” the woman said, “she didn’t. She was killed in a car accident after fighting with her boyfriend at Willow Bridge underpass. It was fifteen years ago tonight. Every year on the anniversary of her death, she signals a young man like you to pick her up. She tries to get home to me, but she never makes it. Wait a moment,” the lady said.

She opened the coat closet next to the front door and handed me a coat. My coat. “This is yours,” she said.

Stunned, I carried my coat back to my car and got it. It was only as I turned on the windshield wipers that I realized that the coat was dry, inside and out. I reached over to feel it and in the fold I found a damp white hanky.

This story and others will appear in the eGuide “Campfire Stories: From the Chill to the Giggle” coming October 15, 2010. To pre-order your copy at a 30% discount please click here.

Pre-orders are only $3.46. Your eGuide will be delivered to your email inbox on October 15, 2010. At that time, the eGuide will go on sale for $4.95. Order yours today!

Sometimes the best ghost stories are the ones that you tell as if it happened to you. The key to making them super scary is to relate most of the story in a matter-of-fact voice until you get close to the climax of the story. Then, let the creepiness be heard in your voice.

Hints:

• Feel free to adjust the time frame to fit your audience.
• Change the date in the story from October 4th to be the date you’re telling the story.
• If you think your audience can handle it, have a “helper” sneak away and cry like a baby at the very end. (Caution with that one!)

Cry Baby Creek

Tulley Creek, just a bit west of here, has been known for years as Cry Baby Creek. Tulley Creek used to flow year-round, but about 15 years ago, the creek went dry. Now, it only flows once a year, on October 4th.

That’s because, when I was young, Shelly Armstrong died at Tulley Creek on October 4th. Shelly had been driving home from work, late one night with her infant son Jack asleep in his car seat in the backseat.

It had been storming all afternoon and Shelly was anxious to get home. The rain had made the dirt road slick and treacherous. The pot holes were filled with water and shoulders of the road were soft. Shelly had her windshield wipers on at full speed but it seemed as soon as they moved the water, the rain blurred the windshield again. Her headlights barely illuminated the road in front of her.

As Shelly approached the old wooden bridge over Tulley Creek she noticed that the creek was flowing much higher than ever before. It seemed that the bottom of the bridge was only a few feet above the raging surface of the creek.

Shelly slowly eased her car onto the bridge. Even above the sound of the rain, she could hear the bridge moan and pop. Just as she was nearly across, the bank on the far side slid into the raging waters below.

Shelly watched, helpless, as the whole bank in front of her gave way, revealing the supports of the bridge. Just as she was putting her car into reverse to back off the bridge, she saw the bridge give way and plunge her, the car, and her still-sleeping young son, Jack into the tumultuous waters below.

The next morning, searchers found Shelly’s body 30 miles down stream. Her car had washed up in some shallows. They searched for three days, but they never found the body of young Jack Armstrong.

Now, people say that if they visit Tulley Creek on October 4th they can see the waters rise and go rushing through the creek bed. And if you go to the site of the old wooden bridge, you can still hear young Jack Armstrong crying for his mother.

I went to Tulley Creek, Cry Baby Creek one year. I was 16 and had just gotten my drivers license. I was too afraid to roll down the windows to listen for the baby to cry, but when I drove away, on my back window there was the imprint of a baby’s hand.