- Filed as
- Driftwood Chronicle Bookings LLC
- Filed with
- the Oklahoma Secretary of State
- Office
- 2431 East 61st Street, Suite 415, Tulsa, OK 74136
- Telephone
- (918) 496-2748
- Requests and questions
- tideline@driftwoodchronicle.com
- Figures and written quotes
- tideline@driftwoodchronicle.com
- Anything agreed in writing
- landward@driftwoodchronicle.com
Those seven lines are the whole company, and they are what a travel agent in Tulsa, Oklahoma has instead of a shopfront. There is a table, a telephone, a filing system, and a person who books trips that other companies run. This office does not own a lodge, a boat, a bus, a plane, or a bed. It carries nobody. It arranges nothing on the ground itself. Every trip listed here belongs to an operating company that is licensed and equipped for it, and that company is named to you in the written figure, not on this page. A travel agent in Tulsa, Oklahoma sits between you and that company: reads the fine print, asks the questions you would not think to ask, holds the space, and sends you a figure you can read in one sitting.
You are charged nothing. Not a planning fee, not a consultation fee, not a service charge on the back end. The operating company pays this office a commission after you have traveled, which is the same arrangement most agencies work under and the reason the price you see is the price the company itself quotes. If you cancel, this office is not paid. That is worth knowing when you are wondering whether the desk has a reason to push you toward the expensive end.
Why every trip here carries a distance
The sorting came out of complaints, and not the complaints anyone expects.
People came back annoyed far more often about the last mile than about the place they went. The lake was the lake. The coast was the coast. What went wrong was the gap between where the car stopped and where the bed was, and nobody had ever handed them a number for it. They had been told a cabin was secluded, or remote, or quiet, and those words mean nothing you can act on. Secluded to the person writing the brochure meant a mile of gravel with two switchbacks. Quiet meant a boat that runs twice a day and does not run in a north wind.
So the number got printed instead. Five steps, and every one of the twenty trips falls into exactly one of them. At-the-door means the road reaches the door and the car stops where you sleep. Ten-minutes means ten minutes on foot from the last parking place. An-hour means an hour on foot, carrying what you brought, once, each way. Half-a-day means four or five hours in on foot or by boat, and arrival day is spent arriving. No-road means there is no road, and you come in by water on a timetable that weather closes.
What each step asks of you and what it costs is set out in full under how a booking is put together. What none of those pages will do is tell you which step you belong in. That is not a judgment this office is qualified to make about a person it has never met, and anyone who makes it for you over the telephone is guessing.
What this office is on the hook for
This desk, in Tulsa
- Reads what you send the same working day, and answers it with a person.
- Establishes the last mile in writing: surface, feet of ascent, minutes with a load.
- Asks the operating company for a figure and passes it on unchanged.
- Prints that company's cancellation terms beside its figure, in full.
- Says plainly when a step looks wrong for what you have told us you can do.
- Keeps the correspondence, so nobody has to explain it twice.
Whoever actually runs the trip
- Own and run every bed, boat, track and guided crossing in this catalog.
- Set the price, and set every deadline that can cost you money.
- Take payment, hold it, and decide what a refund looks like.
- Decide on the day whether a crossing sails or a track is passable.
- Carry the insurance, the permits and the liability for the trip itself.
- Pay this office a commission after you have traveled, and not before.
The name says one thing, the desk does another
Driftwood Chronicle sounds like something you read. It is not. There is nothing to subscribe to here, nothing appearing here on a schedule, no writing about places for its own sake. The name came with the address and it stayed, and it is a poor description of the work.
The work is booking. Twenty trips, a price on every one, a written figure that names the operating company and lists what is included and what is not, and a form at the bottom of every page. Pages end at a price or a request, because that is where the desk can actually be useful. Everything on this site exists to get you to a figure you can say yes or no to.
If you want to read about somewhere, there are better places for that than a booking desk in Oklahoma.
Getting an answer out of us
You will not find a printed timetable of attendance anywhere on this site. That is deliberate: an hour painted on a door tells you when somebody is in a room, which is not the thing you need. What you need is when an answer lands. The form itself takes booking requests 24/7 and never shuts, and what arrives through it reaches a person and is looked at before that working day is out. Putting a number on a trip is slower and runs to two to four working days, since it means writing to whoever owns the beds and waiting for them to write back. Nobody here invents a figure to fill the gap.
Cancellation terms are set out at what cancellation costs, and the questions that come up most often are answered at the questions people actually ask. If yours is not there, put it in the form and it will be answered by a person who has read the operator's terms rather than a summary of them.