Matador - fun

Matador community raises close to $8000 for the Matador Travel Scholarship Fund!!

Matador Party - Brave New Travelers — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:19:48 -0500

The Matador community along with family and friends came out in a major way on Saturday night at 111 Minna Gallery to party for a great cause. Over 400 guests packed the gallery to check incredible artwork, shake a leg to the live afro-funk band and DJ Professor Belway, drink, take photos, talk world...

A journey to Newark city ...

joebroadley — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:38:31 -0500

Newark located in New Jersey, USA. It is the largest city of New Jersey. Atlantic ocean and Newark Bay are near this city. It’s a very development city. I can see here more building for business and other things but some are best hotels on Newark. Two things I like it one are hotels of Newark and...

trip to anaheim city

philadelphiatrip — Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:29:30 -0500

Anaheim is a city in orange county, California. It is best known for being the home of Disneyland. You can get in by car, plane and train. Some of the places you must visit Disneyland, California Adventure and Crystal Cathedral. The...

Bia

shakester — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:33:41 -0500

The chairs squeak, almost bent out of shape by your weight. They are made of plastic, just like the tiny low stool in front of you that serves as a table. That plastic is worn, even a little stained. Your legs squeeze because you are low. But you could just stretch them out, resting on the edge...

Jackson Five Hole

Stu — Fri, 8 Feb 2008 01:55:31 -0600

I went to Jackson Hole, Wyoming last weekend to see a buddy of mine ('sam' on matador) and to do some back country skiing. It seems Jackson Hole exclusively permits young, fun, athletic people who look good in puffy jackets to enter town limits. The 20 and 30 somethings live the life there, full...

A Wonderer’s Chronicles

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:01:29 -0500

“The World is a book, and those who do not
travel read only a page” — St Augustine

In the words of Martha Washington: That’s how you fucking Lobsterbake!!!

Stu — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:51:27 -0500

A few weekends ago, we had the 11th annual Poole family lobster bake in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. And for those of you who don't know, Maine is a state in the Union, harboring exclusively awesome people.

To support the photographic documentation, the anatomy of a lobster bake looks something like...

There are worse places to have a wedding reception...

Stu — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:03:04 -0500

Just got back from a two week east coast swing full of family, friends, golf, mountains, rivers, humidity, lobsters, drinks, late nights, hangovers, sunsets, sunburns and laughs.

My trip was capped off with my buddy's east coast wedding reception in New Hampshire. Since he and his wife were wed...

A quick update: Barcelona & London

Ben — Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:14:17 -0500

A second to catch up…

I’m a bit behind on the blogs due to the fact that my time on the Internet has been consumed by other work. And I was taken out for a couple days with a jungle infection in my foot from jumping off a waterfall in northern Thailand. But Ross has gotten some good blogs out...

Back in Madrid, Spain

Ben — Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:37:10 -0500

It’s been almost 5 years since I’ve been back to Madrid and to be honest not much has changed. Maybe a little more development and, according to our taxi driver, a lot more traffic. But at least in the four days that we’ve been here it’s felt like we’ve never left.

Our good friend is...

101 Merits Which Make One a Traveler

ZTP Teo — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:29:46 -0500

1. “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need ... roads.”

2. You receive food that in no way resembles the dish you ordered, and you don’t care.

3. You’ve seen the sun rise on every continent.

4. You’ve seen the sun set on each ocean.

5. You have to get a new passport because...

Phototastic!

jollyhippo — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:46:30 -0500

Hello all! No time for a massive update, but I thought I'd post the links to my India and Thailand photos as a tideover. They'll be on matador themselves once I get home in um... July. Hope you're all well. Off to Vietnam!

India:
http://travel.webshots.com/album/558098827seZerH

Thailand:
http://travel.webshots.com/album/558246268UhubmS...

Studying Abroad

eugeniaman — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:01:10 -0600

Studying Abroad is the best thing anyone could do in college (well, next to graduating). This was seriously the best semester I had at UCBerkeley, packed with fun adventures I'll be talking about for the REST OF MY LIFE. I will always look back fondly on these memories. I made friends with some of...

Superbowl.. zzz

Stu — Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:30:33 -0600

Is it me or did I just watch the ugliest (and potentially the most boring) football game in Superbowl history??

After the first 7 seconds of the game, I didn't get excited once. Although I must concede, by the third quarter my friends and I were having increasing excitement predicting which member...

Vive Las Vegas Baby!

Awriter — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:04:32 -0600

Hey man, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas...at least that is what my sister Lynn and I are hanging by. We didn't get into too much trouble, but enough to stand alongside the Rat Packs' claim to fame of tearing the town up and lack of REM for 48 hours straight.Payback in a bitch, getting back to...

We put the BA in balls.

Stu — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:02:07 -0600

A few months ago when I was traveling around South America, I visited friends in Buenos Aires, Argentina and my first 18 hours in BA provides a good snapshot of what the city is like.

I showed up after a 13 hour overnight bus ride at 9AM, looking like hell and feeling like 1 peso from the Tylenol...

New Years Eve in Hong Kong

PUNCHY — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:40:05 -0600

Earlier this afternoon I was surfing at Big Wave Bay on Hong Kong Island! A small bay w/ little waves pealing down the line. It's no Pipeline, but it is so refreshing to get in the water, make a couple turns and give thanks for all the expieriences I have racked up over the past seven months on the...

Whatever happened to the...

Stu — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:14:55 -0600

Pogoball?

Somewhere in between pogo sticks and moon shoes, there was a brief period in time where pogo balls were the personal elevation-related toy of choice.

If my memory serves me correctly, the Pogoball was a short lived fad. It had its heyday between approximately 1987 and 1989. I remember...

San-Ti-Ago... Spanish for Whale's Boob.

Stu — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:08:56 -0600

I was the luckiest s.o.b in the world when I was in Santiago, Chile. A family friend of ours had good friends who lived in Santiago, and these kind Chileans allowed me to use their house as a home base in between traveling the rest of South America. They also took me in as their 5th child, calling me...

Mendoza, Argentina: Majestically badass

Stu — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:27:02 -0600

Mendoza, Argentina lies east of the Andes Mountain range and boasts beautiful women, insanely deep street gutters and a plethora of young people just wanting to get drunk and make some bad decisions.

I honestly can't get over the depth of the gutters. They run along both sides of the street and are...

Only on Matador Travel: The Gibbon Experience!!!

PUNCHY — Mon, 4 Dec 2006 06:26:16 -0600

Previously the only way to find out about the Gibbon Experience was by word of mouth in Laos. It isn't in any Lonely Planet Books, only on Matador Travel. Say the words Gibbon Experience in Laos and instantly other backpackers listen up. It is the best thing to do in Northern Laos. With canopy...

Villarica Volcano: Thanks for not erupting on us.

Stu — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:41:35 -0600

I was in Pucon, Chile, and after four straight days of going to the hiking agency's office at 6AM and being told to go home because the hike was canceled, I FINALLY hiked the 9,000 foot lava spitting hill on the 5th day. It was a highly anticipated event, since Thursday's, Friday's and Saturday's hikes...

You must be jam, ´cause jelly don´t shake like that.

Stu — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:05:59 -0500

I was persuaded to go salsa dancing last night. Myself, Angela (a fertilizer saleswoman 6 months out of the year from Utah. -She makes enough in 6 months to travel the rest of the year), Shireen (of Norwegian, German (unsmelly) & Pakistani decent), and my new housemate, Cameron from Australia, went to...