🗼 How do you out-eiffel the Eiffel? | Bulletin #117

Merry all the things 🎄

December 18, 2024

Cooper’s Beach 📍 Southampton, New York, USA 📸 Austin Handler

Just one last Thank You to you, our Super Adventurers, for your support this year. We could never express how much we appreciate you, but we’ll continue to try 🫶

🥳 THIS YEAR IN AWA AWESOMENESS

We started the year off strong with a skip over the pond to our unbelievable Exhibition in London with some of our curious cohorts at Hendrick’s Gin. Then we discovered hidden gems in the desert of Nevada before celebrating our 100th Bulletin with 100 giveaways. We explored the Playground of Europe checking off some bucket list hotels and museums, while simultaneously kicking off Exhibitions in LA, Melbourne, Shenzhen, and Buenos Aires reaching Adventurers all over the world.

But the biggest Adventure of 2024? Seeing Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures finally hit shelves and be crowned one of the “Best Books of 2024” by our besties at Barnes & Noble! From an Antarctica giveaway to golden compasses, we were honored to share new stories from across the globe courtesy of so many talented photographers. We capped it all off with a 3-week Kinda Cross Country Book Tour through 11 states and a next-level Exhibition in Seoul…PHEW!

So what’s in store for 2025? Well new Adventures, probably a giveaway (or two, or three), new locations to be discovered, fun facts to be shared, and unexpected stories to be told. We sincerely cannot wait to share what’s next! But first we wanna know…

💭 DO YOU WANT A WES SIGNED BOOK?

Well, we’re sending one of you a copy signed by the man himself just for letting us know your favorite AWA Memory of the Year. Did you have a favorite Adventure we went on? Or you happened to meet us on our Book Tour? Perhaps you had an AWA inspired Adventure of your own, possibly you were a Secret Link winner, or maybe one of our posts or stories simply brought a smile to your face…

Whatever the case may be, we wanna hear it! Let us know here what your favorite AWA memory was and we will be picking some of our favorites to send some goodies - and one of you will get a Wes signed copy of our new book delivered to your door! 😉

The Huntsman📍 Bath, England 📸 Gordon Fingland

WISH YOU WERE BEER

Where does the word “pub” come from? From the most popular pub name to the oldest pub in the world, we took a deep dive into the history of these charming watering holes and pulled together some fun facts for you to share over a pint… 

Hotel Kulm Pilatus📍 Pilatus, Switzerland 📸 Marjorie Becker

A HOTEL ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Where we're going, we don't need roads, nor do you have any…

So take your pick of cable car or the world’s steepest cogwheel railway if you plan to reach this incredible hotel nestled amongst the peaks of the Alps.

Bavariapark 📍 Munich, Germany 📸 Emanuel Haas

MAKING OF A FERRIS WHEEL

In 1889 the Eiffel Tower was unveiled at the World's Fair in Paris (aka: The Exposition Universelle). Four years later, Chicago was on deck to host the next World's Fair and undertook a nearly impossible task: out-Eiffel the Eiffel Tower….

As a final farewell to an amazing year, we’ll be giving away a few extra special Adventure Boxes — what the heck is an Adventure Box? Well, our publisher sent them out to a bunch of special people featuring our new book and some other fun AWA goodies, and we thought, our Super Adventurers are pretty freakin’ special, so we had them send us a few for you. Get searching because this is a good one!

And to all a good night! 🎄