Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
All opinions in the Digest are expressed solely by the Digester and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Why Not Travel Store, its owners, or its wonderful staff
January 29
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Eleventh Year of Publication
A deaf couple checks into a motel late one night. Upon moving into their assigned room, they go to bed. In the middle of the night, the woman has a headache, so she goes into the bathroom for an aspirin. But she finds none and remembers that the bottle of aspirin is still in the car. Afraid to go out alone at night, she wakes her husband, then asks him to go get the aspirin from the car.
The very groggy husband puts on his robe, then toddles wearily outside. He finds the bottle of aspirin in the car's glove compartment. As he gets ready to go back to the room, he realizes something. He can't remember which room was his. He thinks and thinks, then gets an idea.
He opens the car door again and honks the horn several times. Within a minute, all the motel's windows lit up except one.
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1595 - William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is thought to have been first performed; officially published early 1597.
1850 - Senator Henry Clay drafts the Compromise of 1850 to defuse tensions between slave states and free states over territories won during the Mexican–American War.
1886 - Karl Benz patents the "Benz Patent-Motorwagen" in Karlsruhe, Germany, the world's first automobile with an internal combustion engine.
1892 - The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1896 - American Emile Grubbe is the first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer.
1964 - "Dr Strangelove", directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, premieres.
2002 - President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an "Axis of Evil," which includes Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.
2025 - US Army helicopter practicing night vision flying, crashes mid-air into commercial jet, killing all 67 passengers, including dozens of figure skaters, and crew members, over the Potomac River while approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington D.C.
1945: Blue Bloods actor Tom Selleck, along with his 'stache' are having a birthday today.
National Corn Chip Day - And who has the best selection of Frito's in town?? The Why Not of course!!

I started writing The Digest in the third quarter of 2015. I was filling in as temporary General Manager until we could find a permanent one to take over the leadership of the store. I had some time on my hands and was kicking around how to fill it when I remembered an idea I saw in a hotel in Winslow, Az. called La Posada. (Wonderful hotel BTW) In the lobby, they had a chalk board and on it was some simple trivia that happened on that day as well as the weather forecast of sunny, hot, cold rainy or whatever the day was going to bring. I stole some of those ideas and came up with the WNTS Digest. As I was temporarily living at the time in Why, I would spend some time each morning putting together those trivia facts, weather, a cute Pet Picture of the Day from Freekibble.com and an ad hoc picture of something I talked about in the Digest. I would then print the two pages out and tack it to our Bulletin Board in front of the store. The two pictures to the left are from a copy of the Digest that was published in or around February 2016. Eventually we found a permanent GM and I went back to my home in Northern California. A few months later, I was asked to stand up a website for the store and because I didn’t need to be at the site, I was able to do my work in California. When designing the site, I wanted to incorporate the concepts of The Digest. It had paused publication when I moved and here was an opportunity to bring it back in electronic form.

So, over the years, I made a few changes to the format, but it still has the basic constructs I started out with. The ‘Weather’ report is now the 'Current Weather' and is displayed as a widget on both the Home Page and The Digest. We kept Today in History, Born on this Day, Today is (national quirky holidays), moved Pet Picture of the Day to its’ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became “Why Nutts!!” and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a ‘Quote of the Day’ but transitioned that into ‘Joke of the Day’ after I felt that the quotes were getting to bizarre, even for me.
And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!
- Digester