Hey People,

Well thank you so much to our newest backers Shawn and Christine. You all are so amazing; Katie & I are very grateful for the support you've given. 

Sleep Here Now's Kickstarter reign is almost ended and we are still a quarter of the way to our goal. This was an update I sent out to every single person in my address book. I'd love it if you'd pass this along and help us get to our goal.

We can make it with your help! Thank you!!

Jesse & Katie

www.sleepherenow.com

Hello!

The collaborative power of Kickstarter and something like Sleep Here Now make me absolutely thrilled to be welcoming in our newest supporters. 

Lobenhaus Bed & Breakfast in Carlton OR is one of the many places Katie & I have visited in our travels. But when "Sharon Lobenstein" popped up as  one of our newest contributors I had to do a double take.

I have a hard time associating the bed & breakfasts we've visited with this current project. Shari and Lobenhaus have already reaped the benefits of our visit with them. Yet still, they've donated to what we're doing now. That is amazing and humbling to me as it reminds me of the  many persons we touch, if just for one day, with Sleep Here Now.

Thanks also to Esther & Alan, two more of our newest contributors.

If you'd like to watch the Lobenhaus video you may do so HERE.  

The Sleep Here Now Alaska Project is closing in on pretty steep territory. We are still way far away from our goal and while we still have some time left, we still need a big push.

I began thinking about what a $25 donation would mean from people. How many $25 donations does it take to get to $4400? From where we are right now, 164. 

That's a lot of people, I thought. Then I broke it down by the number of days we still have left. 24. And now it's just under 7. 

7 people a day donating $25 would bring us to our goal.  

$25 is a great donation amount to give. Not only do you get our indebted thanks, a Sleep Here Now sticker sent to you from Alaska and access to our Alaska blog, but you get the musical styling of Smittybeats and his Sleep Here Now arpeggio; sent to you exclusively from our as-yet-unavailable-on-iTunes collection.

So that's it. We don't have as many supporters as we would like right now, but we're grateful for every one of them. Moreover, if everyone who "liked" us on Facebook would pledge to donate $25 then we would be all the way there. Remember if we don't make it to our goal you don't risk any money.

So what do you say?

One of Sleep Here Now Alaska's newest sponsors, Carmen, told me I could share her story for deciding what she would be donating: 

"First off I am always willing to support friends in their adventures. Especially when I know that they are passionate about what they are doing. So it was never a question as to whether or not I would pledge to Sleep Here Now Alaska, but it was deciding how much I would pledge. Knowing quite well that Jesse and Katie wouldn't have any problem with me donating a dollar, that thought definitely crossed my mind. But instead I thought if we were to meet up here in Oklahoma or anywhere else I would definitely take them out to dinner. I wouldn't think twice about it. It would be easy for me to spend money on dinner with my friends which means that I DO have that money to spend on helping them reach their goals. So within my budget I found the amount of money I think I could spend on a nice dinner with my friends and instead pledged it to their project.

That's my story. Hope it helps!"

Thank you everyone for all the amazing support we've gotten thus far on Sleep Here Now Alaska. 

I love all the Facebook "likes" we keep getting! I'm very grateful to have so many wonderful friends and associates who've taken the time to watch our video.

One thing I keep hearing though is a little discouraging. "Things are tight; my one small contribution won't matter; I shouldn't pledge at all." Friends, if I could give one hundred dollars to one hundred people and they promised they would pledge, I would do it.

This Kickstarter is about us getting to Alaska, yes. I'd love it if we could do that and share our summer with you. However this is also about showing the networks, agents, the powers that be, the world at large; that you like Sleep Here Now. That you want to see more bed & breakfast reviews in remote and well-trafficked places.

If you could find it in you to pledge; just one dollar; that would be something for me and Katie to be proud of. Whether we make it to our goal or not.