LA Travel and Adventure Show 2017

I'm in downtown Los Angeles today to check out the Travel and Adventure Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center, get some ideas for some great travel and adventure around the world. So I'm here with Richmond Jimenez, he's the tourism director in LA for the Philippines and I've been seeing a lot of cool videos of Palawan lately and I'm really curious to check that out. I heard from a friend of mine though that Nickelodeon is planning on building a giant amusement park in Palawan. Is that true? Well, I heard about that too, but then again, there's still no definitive information about that. But it will also be raising a lot of concerns because we would want to have our islands and our beaches as pristine and untouched as it was before. But as far as you know, it's not definitely happening yet? It's not definitely happening yet. Okay. So just so everyone knows, you can contact the Philippines government and Nickelodeon and voice your concerns and let them know we want to keep Palawan and the islands and beaches pristine and beautiful. We don't want a giant amusement park to destroy the natural beauty of the islands, right? That's correct. Absolutely. Well, the travel and adventure show was a little anticlimactic for me. It was basically like a bunch of travel agents trying to sell you their tour packages, which when you're a hardcore budget adventure travel guy like me, you don't have time for that stuff. Look, don't sell me your package that costs six grand when I can do the same thing for 600 bucks. But I will say guys, if you're starting out, if you're just starting out doing travel and adventure, it might be a good show for you. You know, they had some good shows, some dancing performances. They had a camel ride for the kids. They had a climbing wall, some other little games for the kids. So that was cool. It wasn't that expensive. Did get a good connection with the Baja California Tourism Board and he recommended some cool spots where you can camp on the beach, some beautiful beaches. So it was worth it for that. As far as finding new adventure places, I didn't really find anything. Just places I already knew about. I talked to the Philippines tourism representative about Palawan, a place I want to go in the Philippines and talked to him about the fact that Nickelodeon is building a theme park there. So I hit him with a little ambush question. Hope you guys appreciated that. Put him on the spot because like by the time I get to Palawan, I don't want it to be a shithole thanks to some theme park. But anyway, it was a good time to spend the day. Got some brochures loaded down with a 50 pound bag of brochures and stuff like that. Now it's time to go grab some food and continue the adventure.