Hello ESCAPESEEKER fans,
I hope you’re all having a beautiful week. I just wanted to take a moment to update you on all the exciting activities preceding and surrounding our ESCAPESEEKER October 5th KOCE-TV Fall Premiere.
At this moment, the talented members of our ESCAPESEEKER team, from the post production group (writers/director/editors/sound) to the graphics artists, to the composers, have all begun an intense ESCAPESEEKER “repackaging” in preparation for our BIG TV premiere. In the next following weeks, several crucial steps are being taken:
1. The first six episodes will be completed and submitted to PBS/KOCE-TV for review by August 1st. We have acquired enough footage for 8 episodes, but at this time, PBS only needs to see the first six. As you can imagine, our entire film post-production team won’t be seeing much real daylight before August 1st.
2. A brand new updated ESCAPESEEKER promo is being cut, hopefully complete with our newly composed ESCAPESEEKER theme song. This will be the promo that will run on PBS/KOCE-TV during August and September leading up to our program’s premiere. Talks are also in the works for additional PBS member stations to carry the program–which may result in joint premieres in major cities across the U.S. whose audience demographic is similar to KOCE’s.
3. A brand new official www.ellcprd.wpengine.com website is currently being built, which will enable visitors to view the promo instantly, view a photo gallery complete with images from all the global destinations we are featuring, provide background info on the ESCAPESEEKER film team, but more importantly, the website will link our destination partners, and enable the visitors to go directly to their site to make reservations. In some instances, visitors will be able to click and request the “Escapeseeker Package” which will closely duplicate my experiences they’ve viewed on our ESCAPESEEKER program.
By the way, this escapeseeker.blogspot.com site will continue to function as is, but now, visitors will have the additional option to be directed to the escapeseeker.net website too.
4. Ancillary products’ design have also begun for the following items:
a. ESCAPESEEKER, journalism -style, glossy coffee table book, highlighting the global destinations we are featuring on the ESCAPESEEKER program.
b. ESCAPESEEKER cookbook, featuring the renowned/talented Chefs featured on the ESCAPESEEKER program, including their signature (often secret) recipes, and the /restaurants destinations with which they’re affiliated.
c. MUSIC CD, comprised of all the music/score used in each episode.
d. ESCAPESEEKER inspired fashion line and accessories.
As you can imagine, these are exciting, albeit intense, times for ESCAPESEEKER! Who needs to sleep right? We purposely did not schedule any new filming until mid-September for these reasons.
If you’re one of our corporate sponsor prospects, or an interested ESCAPESEEKER investor, may I recommend you ACT FAST, ACT NOW, before you miss one of the most exciting travel adventures ever!!! Call +1 949.689.3297 or write: escapeseeker@gmail.com
In the meantime, here’s a sneak peak of where our film team is slated to travel to for our future episodes during the month of September, October and November: Enjoy. Better yet, why not join us? Write or call and we’ll give you the details.
September 17-24:
At The K CLUB resort, we will set out to “Prove the Luck of the Irish” as we capture on film its stunning championship golf courses, try our hand at Ireland’s gentleman style fly-fishing on the River Liffey, and maybe even try our luck on horse racing, fully decked out in the right fashion, hat included of course! Less, we forget, The K Club is also famous for its signature SPA pampering…after all, it isn’t easy being the ultimate ESCAPESEEKER!
I love starting my day off with a swim in this climate-controlled swimming pool at the K Club Spa!
Then on September 28th-October 4th, we will continue on to the AMALFI COAST, PALAZZO SASSO in Ravello, to be exact! Now repeat after me, “HEAVEN ON EARTH!” That’s exactly what we are calling this episode…and if you have ever set foot in this part of the world, you know what I’m talking about for sure.
You can expect ROYAL TREATMENT only at this Palazzo…nothing less!
Stay tuned for this one-of-a-kind tribute to the City By The Bay, complete with our salute to the brave men and women who protect our freedoms (Fleet Week with the famous Blue Angels), and bring you the most amazing luxury hotel transformation you’ve ever seen–CAVALLO POINT, a once upon a time army housing? You’ve gotta experience it to believe it!!! The only luxury hotel in the U.S. located in a National Park…with a view of the most famous bridge in the world!Honestly, you’ll be singing the famous Greenwood tune, “God Bless The U.S.A” by the time this episode is done.
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Can you combine “Green” and Romance? Absolutely!!!
If you believe in being earth-friendly, without sacrificing luxurious comfort when looking for the ultimate romantic retreat–you’ll definitely want to tune in to this “Greening of America” episode featuring the best 
kept secret of California’s Big
POST RANCH INN
BIG SUR VIEW
Need a little help learning “The Art Of Living”…MONTAGE LAGUNA BEACH, California living that is! This episode is for you. From the moment you arrive at these architecturally/ authentically designed California beach bungalows, you’ll know you’ve found the place you’ve spent an entire lifetime searching for. At first you may think you’ve stepped into a painting…an absolute work of art…but this is no momentary illusion. MONTAGE LAGUNA BEACH is set on a coastal bluff overlooking the Pacific along the beautiful, vibrant Laguna coastline of the ‘California Riviera’–offering 30 acres of oceanfront luxury! Welcome to your new found life……yes, you can start humming the Beach Boys tune, “I wish they all could be California Girls…”…as a matter of fact, that just may be a California girl…no it’s not her look alike…This is a favorite of Jennifer Aniston’s too! Congratulations…you’re learning the art of California living!
Want to feel what its like to live like a HOLLYWOOD LEGEND? Well, not a problem. Check in to the luxurious MONTAGE BEVERLY HILLS…and it won’t take look before you will begin to feel and look every bit as glamorous as Hollywood’s most famous names…Garbo, Monroe, Newman, and Rock…Hudson that is. If you don’t arrive as beautiful as you’d like to be, no worries, MONTAGE BEVERLY HILLS has partnered with Hollywood’s famed KIM VO…repeat after me, “salon masterpiece!” Yes, you are truly BEAUTIFUL…a star like no other!
WHAT’S IN STORE FOR ESCAPESEEKER IN NOVEMBER?
Here you go, click at the link below and take a sneak peak at what awaits our ESCAPESEEKER team as we travel to INDIA to film our ROMANCING INDIA episode…if I may borrow the poetic expression describing India by Ananda Coomaraswamy, “It has proved impossible for those who have not seen the ancient gods to represent them: and the powers to be are not yet seen or heard, only the movement of their dance is faintly felt.”
And, if I may also add the words of Pliny the Elder who wrote, “India aboundeth in wonders.” After you view this footage from THE LEELA Palaces, Hotels and Resorts, you will absolutely agree.
http://www.theleela.com/live-the-leela-dl-low.html
Thank you fans and Friends of Escapeseeker for your continued support and contagious enthusiasm as we strive to bring the JOY and PASSION back into TRAVEL!
With love,
Mel aka ESCAPESEEKER
