Forks, Washington

Jeg skal på jentetur til USA til sommeren, men til nå har jeg vurdert å prioritere Florida og Vegas framfor Forks. Men nettsiden til Forks fikk meg til å tvile. For hvem ville ikke gått seg en tur i den vakre naturen eller fisket laks i en av elvene? Eh...

Bare i Forks.

Fra Twilight Secrets.

Jeg ville i hvert fall satset på Twilighthotellet og en av Twilightturene (eller alle), for ikke å snakke om alle fotomulighetene med Lomme-Edward som ville åpnet seg.


Fra cafepress. Ja, du kan få dette på t-skjorta di.

Det er ikke bare meg som vil til Forks - faktisk er det slik at folk flokker til Forks, i følge CNN:

"It's only got a couple of stoplights, and a pretty constant rain.

But that hasn't stopped thousands of visitors from making the trek to Forks, Washington, a small logging town in the Pacific Northwest of the U. S. -- the setting for the hugely popular vampire saga "Twilight."

The small town of just 3,000 residents was suffering from the logging industry's decline. But "Twilight," set in Forks but not actually filmed there, changed all that.

While other nearby areas have seen a decrease in tourism, Forks is enjoying a vampire-inspired tourist boom.

Tilfeldig illustrasjonsbilde.

Fra Robsessed.

Last year, 2008, was the town's biggest tourism year ever and residents say carloads of visitors, mostly giddy teenage girls, are showing up every weekend these days.

Marcia Bingham, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, said the town's Twilight-inspired turnaround has been nothing short of miraculous.

"We've probably had more than 100 people a day," Bingham told the Associated Press as van after van of tourists pulled up in front of the town's visitor center."

Les resten borte hos CNN.