To round out the store I searched for GPS systems and software which led me into the electronics marketplace. My other hobbies of gardening, bird watching and being a serious dog owner attracted me to other products I can stand behind. Appreciating comfortable travel and home living brought in products like Bucky! I find most of my products when I attend the Outdoor Retailer show each year to keep up on gear trends.
I've heard that the store is an eclectic mix of items - that is a reflection of my interests!
I first become interested in the internet while in college as an international studies major. I saw an article in the 1989 issue of Earth Journal about a network that tied the world together, bought an old DOS based computer and had a friend wire a modem into it.
Viewit tag-teams with onwatersports.com which is meant to be a resource for all types of kayaking. The forum has been established as place to share information and buy and sell used gear.
Viewit.com runs the secure server which hosts the online store. All customer information is kept entirely private.
More background if you are interested:
Andree trained as a raft guide on the Stanislaus River in 1977 and has been actively guiding since 1980 in Washington state.
Andree is also an American Canoe Association certified instructor trainer for coastal and whitewater kayaking. She became an Emergency Medical Technician in the winter of 2000. She has led dealer/instructor development and certification workshops nationwide for various organizations, clubs and companies (such as Perception, Inc.)
Andree has guided or paddled the Baja, Chile's Futaleufu River, Bolivia (Lake Titicaca and a river in the Yungas region), New Zealand's Bay of Islands, Petersburg Alaska to the glacier, and taught instructor courses in Washington, Florida, New York, Alaska, Mexico and Hong Kong.
She is a past board member of the Trade Association of Paddlesports, the Washington Kayak Club, Washington Water Trails and the manually powered boat representative to the Washington State Parks Boating Safety committee.
She is also a volunteer EMT and firefighter in Port Townsend.