The Tempo Fountain At Bay Lake Tower At Disney's Contemporary Resort--With Rick Howard: The Everyday Adventures Of The Purple Van August 30, 2009
This is the Tempo Fountain outside of Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort. And that's serious WDW fan Rick Howard enjoying every minute of it.
The Tempo fountain is just outside of the rear of the lobby of Bay Lake Tower as you head toward the pool. It gets its name from the concept name of the new tower and it contains the names of the original purchasers of Disney Vacation Club points for the tower in the small metallic tiles you can see of the top of the coping around the fountain.
Now, let me tell you about Rick Howard. The WDW fan community is made up of a lot of passionate people and Rick definitely fits that bill. Rick's day job is running a travel agency, Kingdom Magic Travel. But he's just as passionate about the evolving social networking phenomenon. To say that Rick is on the cutting edge of Twitter, Facebook and blogs is an understatement. And he's been extremely patient with and helpful to yours truly. The's got his own video blog, Travel with Rick, which has featured that dorky guy in the purple shirt a couple of times. He also has 5000 Facebook friends and 25,000 Twitter followers.
I've gotten to know Rick well and I can tell you he's a walking encyclopedia of the new technology....and he's a darned nice guy, too.
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