Areas Grey exists by primarily as a Travel Blog by definition. It has a niche audience who’s interest is in lost treasure legends around the world. The blog serves as an informative resource to it’s audience. The objective of Areas Grey is to use the information on lost treasure legends made available through research efforts and the community to direct attention to travel destinations. By putting the spot light on a lost treasure legend a travel destination can be identified. With the collective research efforts of the community and Areas Grey to provide investigational leads to follow on site these trips can be taken in order to conduct on-site investigations and report back the findings to the audience in an entertaining and informative way. With the communities attendance to the blog combined with their participation in competitions, promotional materials, as well as other ways in which Areas Grey is monetized such as Member and Contributor access, purchases made through the online store, affiliate marketing, plus any other methods, all contribute to funding the trips required by Areas Grey to visit locations around the world and conduct on-site investigations in order to create posts and content that can be relevant and of interest to it’s intended audience. These trips will consist of in-person investigations into lost treasure legends by following leads highlighted by the community. The theme of Areas Grey as a “Treasure Hunting” resource is to invoke excitement and engage it’s intended audience – while Areas Grey will conduct investigations in hopes of uncovering lost treasure, the act of ‘Treasure Hunting’ in it’s generally accepted sense or in some cases criminal elements or activity will never be conducted by Areas Grey. The research and investigations of Areas Grey will follow all laws and regulations that are relevant to it’s activities for each locality in which it intends to conduct activities. These activities will in no way be any more invasive or damaging to cultural heritage than that of Archaeological investigations or the activities performed by documentaries such as ‘Ancient Aliens‘