I know it may not sound like much of a vacation, but from December 22-24, Katie and I are "getting away from it all" by heading into Chicago and getting a hotel. The hope is that we'll be done with Christmas shopping by that time (we're almost there!) so that we can just relax and walk around, get some food and drinks, hit up a couple of museums, etc.
Well, we booked the hotel a couple weeks ago and, this morning, I received an itinerary e-mail from Travelocity regarding our stay. For the most part, it was your standard e-mail (if you've ever booked travel through Travelocity, Expedia, et al) and contained several ads for complementary services as well as ideas for activities.
But then I saw the coolest damn thing in the world... it was what Travelocity termed their "Travel Goody Bag" and contained a link to "Tunes For Chicago."
Being the music nut I am, I just had to click on it, regardless of the spam potential inherent in clicking on random e-mail links. Thankfully, the resulting page is actually hosted by Travelocity, so I needn't worry about additional e-mails at least.
Here is a screen cap of part of what I saw on the site...
This was just too cool! I love the idea that you can download songs about a place to which you are traveling, but having the travel company actually give you ideas!?! That's awesome! And the list has some standards plus a few others to consider. I never would have thought about Wilco or Groove Armada when developing a list of "songs about Chicago." Would you?
And it's fully iTunes compliant. Even bigger props.
Okay, so it doesn't take much to please me.
If you think that's bad, wait till you see what else was on the page...
C'mon, everyone loves the gnome!
