About
ABOUT POCONO TALK
Pocono Talk was created in October 2007 by Andrea and Eric Kimes to provide information and insight about the Pocono Mountains.
Often referred to as “The Poconos” the Pocono Mountains are a beautiful place to both live and visit. Eric has lived in the Poconos since he was a young child and Andrea moved to the area here about 8 years ago. We both love the Pocono area and enjoy everything it has to offer.
We live and work in the Poconos and own and run our own website design company, WebLeaps. Whenever we get the chance we try to take advantage of the numerous activities the area has to offer to visit and see new things. Having 3 small children the Poconos has many great family activities to experience that provide us with information that we then share here.
Through our experiences I hope we are able to provide you with some useful information whether you live here, visit on vacation or are considering moving to the area.
About The Poconos
The Pocono Mountains (aka the Poconos) is located about halfway between New York City, NY and Philadelphia, PA. It also located close to New Jersey and is a destination for both vacation and also home to many commuters who travel to more populated areas to work.
Currently it takes about 2 hours to drive to either Philadelphia or New York but there are distant plans for a commuter rail line to and from the Poconos.
As a popular vacation destination there is a wide variety of things to do including: skiing, golfing, fishing, hunting, gambling – casino, candle stores, outlet stores, horseback riding, canoeing, camping, indoor waterparks, outdoor waterparks, miniature golf, and more (this list is a work in progress)
Some major points of destination are:
Skiing
Alpine Mountain
Blue Mountain
Camelback Ski Area
Jack Frost Mountain and Big Boulder
Shawnee Mountain
Ski Big Bear
Tanglwood
Racing
Pocono Raceway
Casino
Mount Airy Casino Resort
Disclosure:
The FTC requires that a disclosure policy is on every blog that is involved in using their blog to make money. Although we’d love to be rolling in dough for posting about the Poconos, we make only a few dollars a month off of Google Adsense. We have recently started to offer onsite advertising spots. When promoting our advertisers we may mention the businesses, products and people as part of their advertising packages or for compensation of products or services. We are not going to throw up content just to “make money” by promoting products/businesses/services we don’t believe in. It is not worth it to us to lose readers due to promoting bad products or services, heck that just makes us look bad. If we receive “freebies” that we talk about, we will be sure to let you know why we are mentioning these products. Our goal is to be as open and honest with our readers, although some of our writing may be opinionated we will NEVER write a negative comment/review in order to get compensated (aka Bob hates Joe’s Pizza so he pay us to talk bad about Joe…it would NEVER happen). When all is said and done rest assured we’re just here to talk about the Poconos and if we can make a couple of bucks to cover the fees associated with having a website that’s a bonus.
