Website marvels

The December summary of activity on AmishAcres.com amazes me even though I know this experience is not about us as much as it is about the incomprehensible scope of this medium that we are watching explode before our eyes. Within the million plus hits we receive monthly, nearly 25% come from outside the United States. Canada, Netherlands, European Union, Australia, and Great Britian top the list. Germany, China, Spain, Japan, and Italy rise above Hong Cong, Switzerland, Thailand, and South Africa, but not by that much.

I don't pretend that every one of these other countries are major markets of Amish Acres, but you would be amazed at the number of international visitors we greet as guests each day we are open. They, like we in their countries, are wide eyed and soaking up the sights and sounds of Amish Acres, Indiana, the Great Lakes, and the United States. Nothing fosters understanding among people of different lands like tourism and the largest tourism market in the world is the United States of America. If more of us knew that, we would dress up a little more and walk taller each day.