Hi, I am collapsed structure qualified and i am unemployed so i am willing to go if i can get there. You can sign me up.

Hello,
My name is Michael. I'm a paramedic with international volunteer experience and I have an understanding of Creole/French. I am willing to help in any way with the Haiti relief effort. Also, please let me know or forward my contact info to any other organization that might be organizing doctors to help. Thanks

Michael

hello
I TOO WANT TO GO TO HAITI AND HELP WITH THE RELIEF EFFORT. I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND ANY GROUPS THAT ARE GOING. I AM WILLING TO PAY MY OWN WAY SO LONG AS I GET THERE AND HELP. WILLING AND ABLE TO LEAVE ASAP. please get back to me

THANK YOU

Hello,
My name is Jay. I'm a surgeon, specializing in urologic cancer surgery, but willing to help in any way with the Haiti relief effort. Can help with general surgery needs or staff general medical clinics. Right now, it looks like the infrastructure is unable to handle a huge influx of people, but there will probably be a big need later and for awhile. Please let me know or forward my contact info to any other organization that might be organizing doctors to help. Thank you.
-Jay

Hi, my names Aaron and I'm a recent Public Health Grad from Arizona. Not only do I have infectious disease background but I've been a a Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Management intern for a year. I am able bodied for physical work. Email me at if there is an opportunity for me to help

Hi, my names Aaron and I'm a recent Public Health Grad from Arizona. Not only do I have infectious disease background but I've been a a Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Management intern for a year. I am able bodied for physical work. Email me at if there is an opportunity for me to help

I am a 23 y/o LPN.. i am very interested on going to haiti for diaster relief although i cannot really find any groups going. My email is if you are forming a group to go over.

Hey there, the me know if there is room for volunteers to go to haiti. my phone number is 4403374969

thanks

Julie,

I am extremely interested in going to Haiti and helping in any way that I can. I am an events coordinator at non profit in Detroit, Michigan. I have great organizational and communication skills. I have a degree in Family and Youth studies. PLEASE let me know how I can participate in this volunteer trip. E-mail:

I'm a non profit professional recently laid off and I'd love to join this volunteer trip to help Haiti. I don't have any medical training , but I have skills in organizing, training, and managing people to complete supportive tasks so the medical professionals can be free to tend to those in need. Please contact me if you have room on this trip; I'd be an extremely beneficial team member. 707-280-5468

Please let me know if there is space available on the volunteer trip! Just donated money to the Clinton relief fund, but want to help in person! goforthtravel.org

Please let me know if there is space available on the volunteer trip! Just donated money to the Clinton relief fund, but want to help in person! goforthtravel.org

I would love to go to help Haiti. I don't have any medical experience but I am able to work long hours and I have no conflicts. I have a passport. Please let me know if there is room for any more people on your trip!

My husband and I would like to go on the trip to Haiti to help. Althought he is not a doctor. my husband has over 10 years (15,000 hours) in the operating room. Many of those years were spent in surgery as a surgical tech/1st assistant at Vanderbilt hospital, a level 1 trauma center. Please add us to the list, send details, and/or call: 713-600-9994.

My husband and I would like to go on the trip to Haiti to help. Althought he is not a doctor. my husband has over 10 years (15,000 hours) in the operating room. Many of those years were spent in surgery as a surgical tech/1st assistant at Vanderbilt hospital, a level 1 trauma center. Please add us to the list, send details, and/or call: 713-600-9994.

I AM VERY INTERESTED BEING IN HAITI TO HELP!!! I HAVE A VALID PASSPORT. I AM A TV METEOROLOGIST FROM NYC, BUT I WANT TO DO THIS ON MY OWN AN NOT BACKED BY MY STATION. PLEASE CONTACT ME IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO GET ME THERE TO ASSIST.

Julie...

I'm sooo there. Truely ready to work! I want to help medically. EMT... I have people waiting to sponsor.

Call me... email... I sent an email to the website with my phone number on it.

God speed!

Thank you to everyone who wants to help with the Haiti project! For the most recent updates, please check matadorchange.com!

Congratulations on the baby. Thanks for reading my blogs and one day I hope that matador will publish a 'real' story. One is submitted right now, we'll see what happens. But the picture gallery and blog is a brilliant way to get involved and connected.

Hey! Just looking at all the random people since i just joined. Loved reading your blog! Stopping in Puerto Rico for a few days on my way to the BVI , any suggestions

I'm missing new posts from you. Where are you? What are you doing or where do you travel to next?

And Hello to you too!

:D merry christmas!
rap music

hola julie

matador is great!! Would love to hook up - would likely be in Cuba, where I live. I don't get back to NYC as much as Id like -
!!falta de fula!!

many friends call me the Americana-Cubana (or the yuma jamaliche). after 8 years in Cuba, I don't know what I am! media cubana, media nuyorquina, media loca (that last for sure!)

happy landings
Conner

Thanks a lot!
I am happy you liked it.

Hey thanks for the lovely message, so pleased you like it. I love being a member of Matador, wish I joined years ago! Becky

¡Que chevere! ¡Gracias! Tengo unas cuantas ideas flotando en mi mente. Me organizare y te escribire pronto : )

Yes! We do stunt in NYC :)

thanks for introducing me to all:). loving the connectivity of everything...
Smiles and happy things
N

Thanks for the warm welcome : ) Am loving reading everyone's posts. Looking forward to reading more and writing some of my own.

CC

Thanks for the Taxi Gourmet tip! I may love food as much as I love travel so it's awesome when I find things that combine the two. I hope you and your baby girl are doing well.

Joannaline Casasola Young

Hey there,

I will be visiting Mexico after Thanksgiving for a few weeks and back before Christmas. I noticed you were living in New York, I will be moving to Brooklyn in Jan! If Matador needs a janitor or something, let me know!

yes, I've looked at the Contributor's page - I'm excited about diving in soon!
Thanks!
Robyn

I just read "Upstate" and enjoyed it very much.

It's funny, people from upstate are proud of not living in the city and people from the city associate upstate with incarceration. In reality, it only feels like incarceration during the never ending winter.

Cheers!!

Julie, thank you thank you thank you for the wonderful write-up about Taxi Gourmet! You made my week. I really appreciate you spreading the word about my project - and I really appreciate the mindful travel culture that is Matador.
Cheers to you,
Layne

Really?! How cool. I am so glad you enjoyed it- literature is so important/empowering and I especially lovelovelove Allende.

Hi Julie,
Thanks for the welcome to Matador. I'm loving it. I see you have an interest in Pablo Neruda. I have a wonderful book of his poems about the sea called On the Blue Shore of Silence, Poems of the Sea; it has some beautiful paintings by Mary Heebner with each poem.
We haven't traveled in a couple of years now and I am absolutely giddy about our upcoming trip. Absolutely cannot let this much time go by again without a good travel about!
Angeline

Thanks for the encouragement, I really like your writing so it means a lot.

Hello Julie,
I just noticed you mentioned Fuzhou among your favourite places and thought I'd tell you that Fuzhou is very special for me, as well. I adopted my youngest daughter from China 7 years ago. She was born in Changting in Fujian province and Fuzhou is where I saw her for the first time. I get all sentimental just thinking about it, now. A beautiful city!

Tijuana was fun because it was a totally new experience for me - I couchsurfed with a local, who helped me with my Spanish and showed me around the city, from the beach to the bars.

I love your NYC tips, I'll have to check out some of those places!

When I get back there I definitely will! If you're reading a lot of memoirs currently, I would highly recommend Isabel Allende's "My Invented Country" or "Mi país inventado". I think you'd be into it.

Hi Julie,

Thanks so much for your amazing book suggestions about Mexico! They look fabulous. Until now, the only book I've read that's really set there is Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, which is hardly an ad for Mexican tourism. I'm sooo excited to read them all and seriously, the next year and a half until I move there can't go quickly enough! I'm glad you love it too :)

I've been AWOL from MatadorU this past week while moving house and having no internet :S, but will be raring to go from now on!

Cheers
Leah

thank you for the link... I will check to see what will be planned for summer 2010. Christine

Yeah, it's been too long for me, too. Her international tours don't seem to hit West Africa... or Puerto Rico.

Hi Julie,

Thanks for the warm welcome to Matador! This trip to NYC was a crazy five days of intense New York wonderful. I head back to the Middle East, from Canada in a few days. My plans will hopefully include New York next summer for a bit longer. So if I schedules work out I would love to sit down and chat!

In the meantime I continue to read, enjoy and discover the wonder of the Matador travel world. Your photos are beautiful. They tell such great stories!

Best Wishes,
Christine

Hello Julie,

I read a few of your articles and comments and the good spirit you share motivates me and uplifts me.

Thank you for sharing your insight and passion for traveling!

Cheers!
Daniel

Hello, Julie

Thank you very much Julie for the warm welcome. I love the site!
it will be very help full to organized my nest trip. ; )

Thank you for sharing Julie.

Cheers,
Nina

Yes, Ani Difranco! I've seen her about five times - twice in St. Louis, once in Columbia, MO, once in New Orleans and once in Freibourg, Switzerland. Not nearly enough.

Thanks for the welcome. Glad to be here.

hi julie,
thanks a LOT for sharing with me about the info in lombok. i'm preparing my departure this december to discover the eastern part of indonesia. but then you told me about 4th world and i'm eager to volunteer now. lol

cheers from indonesia

Thanks for the comment and your interest. Cebuano or Bisaya is a standardized language in the Philippines, totally different from the official language (that is, Filipino). A couple of islands speak the language and one is Cebu, the island which I grew up in.

There are over 100+ standardized languages in the Philippines including from of indigenous people, usually living high up our mountains (and I tell, we have a lot of mountains).

Thank you Julie, you can chek out my website for some of my work.
www.anafmoreno.com

best,
ana

Hi Julie. Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the midst of moving myself and business to Portland, OR right now but would love to know more about finding Personal Chef connections abroad or at least with people who travel. I'm feeling pretty stuck in Oregon right now and not happy about it, but have to make a living somehow, you know?

A seasoned vagabond here, hope to learn some tricks from this blogger.

Dan 'The Gypsy Dad' Sauve
www.TheModernVagabond.com

Hi!
Thanks, I'll be sure to take a look at the sports section, and I'd love to get involved and submit some things once things calm down at work and I get a minute to write something not football transfer related! How do I go about submitting?
Cheers,
Dan

Hello,
My name is Joy, i got you from matadortravel.com, and i want to have a
good relationship with you, please i need your cooperation,contact me with my email adress,
(joymabou0091@yahoo.com )
am yours Joy.
thanks,
Joy.

gracias! glad to be on board :)

hi.
been crazy busy last few days, sorry only replying now. will be posting photo's up on my page as well as starting facebook page shortly.

She pretty much got it down! I was very impressed.

Hi Julie!
Thanks so much for the comment and words of welcome! Your profile shows me that you appreciate travel even more than I do. I can't tell you how refreshing that is!
Nice to meet you,
Hannah

bom dia! thanks for the welcome,
i havn't yet actually it is on my list but i know a lot about the place as i am currently about 100 km away in Londrina.
Have you ever been to Brazil at all?

Hello
My
name is Sophia,i saw your profile today and became intrested in you,i will also like to know you the more,and i want you to send an email to my email address so i can give you my
picture for you to know whom i am.Here is my email address( ) I believe we can move from here I am waiting.
(Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life)
Thanks
Sophia

hi

You were the fourth person to respond to my setting up a profile! So I wanted to make sure you know that I've published my first ever travel article. I'm really excited that it got posted to the home page of matadornetwork.com. Please read the article

http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2009/06/16/close-encounters-reconnecting-to-animals-through-our-primitive-nature/

please support me by sending it around to your contacts and anyone who you think may be interested

and please please if you have a response, post it under "comments" where the article is. I'm going to pitch to the editors an idea for a series, so readers responses and support will make a big difference.

Thanks!
Azriel

Hey Julie, many thanks for your comment!
Phil.

Hey,

Just spotted your mail on here. Thanks for the welcome. I'll have a look at your articles. Hopefully I'll make it to Columbia!

thanks you for the welcome cheer! ;-)

i joined this site a couple weeks ago and havent been back since... big mistake, i like it here =)

best Wishes,
~M

Thanks for welcoming me. My friend and I agreed to a little competition about keeping notes. He's going to do a video documentary (since he's the film guy) and I'd write articles and short stories. May the best artist win.

Thanks for the welcome :))))

Many thanks for your welcoming comment!
;-)

Corinne
http://petitesbullesdailleurs.fr

my dearest new friend,
it give me a great honor to contact you after viewing your profile which interest me in having communication with you so that we can get to know each other and see what happened if you will have the desire with me,i will be very happy if you can write me back for easiest communication.i will be waiting to hear from you so i can tell you more about my self and send you some of my recent photos for you to see who you are dealing with.
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Hi, Thanks! and I also loved Sintra, especially the bus ride there from Lisbon... beautiful.

You went to Carnaval this year?? I'm so jealous! Daniela was absolutely my favorite performance at Carnaval 2008!

I got to see her in Boston once- they performed in a small auditorium, I don't think more than a few hundred people were in the crowd. It was such a close, intimate show, just amazing!

OH! I will be harassing you so soon, about puerto rico that is! Hopefully my Honey and I will be eloping there early this fall and I need all the inside info I can get!! I understand it's hurricane season there until the end of October.... Now of course it wouldn't be my preference to get married during a storm, but it would make the experience very memorable! AND I bet we'd get some great pictures!

Anyhow, I love that you have so much experience with other languages... maybe you could help explain to me your approach on picking them up. I read recently about the connection between languages and math, what are your thoughts about it?
thanks a ton, talk to you soon-

Thank you so much for the kind words, I look forward to sharing more of my writings with you all soon. I've got my eye on that Bounty Board, so there will be more to come

Thank you

Thank you

Julie,

Thanks for following up on my article submission! Any idea when it will be published?

Your profile says China is your next destination? Have you gone yet? I'm heading there in a week and would love some "must see" suggestions!

Thanks
Allen Burt

Julie,

Thank you for sharing the news about the upcoming Digital Vagabonding “Roads Scholarship”. Your notice inspired several excellent proposals from some very interesting vagabonds. Some of them were so well traveled they made me feel like a couch potato by comparison.

If anyone would like to view their Roads Scholarship travel proposals or comment on them, visit http://www.digitalvagabonding.com/road-scholarship

We will be accepting proposals until May 8th, 2009 when the winner will be chosen. The winner will then road trip North America this summer and share their journey on Matador and DigitalVagabonding.com

Their Summer Road Trip will officially end at the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada Desert the first week of September.

I encourage fellow vagabonds to follow the Roads Scholar’s journey and meet them in person at the Burning Man Festival.

Ciao for now, Pat the Digital Vagabond

Pat the Digital Vagabond at www.DigitalVagabonding.com

"Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien

Thanks for the welcome message Julie; enjoyed your articles too.

Thanks for the welcome Julie! :)

You have your MSW?? Where did you go to school? Are you finding it useful in the work you do?

thanks for the link to the site about travelling scolerships it looks amazing and ill definitely be interested in it!

Thanks! I should be heading to Cuba sometime next year as part of a huge Central and South American adventure. I'm sure I'll be coming to you for tips!

Peace,
Hannah

Thanks for the friend invite! I'm so new to the blog, I didn't notice your comment on my profile page until today. Yes, our little town is named Cool - not for the weather or for its slick character, tho' both ARE cool - but for an early traveling preacher named Aaron Cool. Funny, huh?

Best of luck ...
Kat

Thanks! Yeah I've got a question: How can I get there?!

Thanks for the tip, I will contact her to see what she's working on.

In the Spanish realm, I have done research on proverbs ("refranes"). Are you familiar with them? You may want to check out a refranero, they are witty and interesting compilations!

Hey Julie! Thanks for the add. It's embarrassing, but I have about 5 projects underway at the moment and not a single one completed. My latest one is about the Mekong river - I did a month long trip through Laos on a fishing boat I bought over there. Now I'm back in Prague and faced with a ton of advertising work, which always throws a wrench in the works as far as the foundation stuff goes. I will certainly keep you posted though! The trailer for the Mekong film will be done in a few days, then I submit it to a few producers and hope for a coproduction budget to go back in November to Tibet and start over with a proper crew.

Has Matador ever considered running video through the site? If it's on the table, I know a developer who has built some very nice custom applications - flash based - that could be adapted without a huge investment. Let me know if it's interesting and I will put you two in touch.

Hi Julie - Thanks for your message and for adding my blog to your roll - and forgive the delayed reply (I'm just getting the hang of Matador). I'll be sure to let you know when I'm in NYC and if I have any story ideas in the meantime. Saludos!

HOLA JULIE!!! gracias por la bienvenida, a que parte de Colombia viniste? tengo muchas ganas de conocer CUBA...
Vivi un tiempo en Barcelona y en londres y ahora tengo metido en la cabeza NEW YORK para estudiar fotografia, que bueno conocer gente de esa ciudad, me encanta, ojala yo pueda tambien ayudarte con informacion de lugares donde fui o aqui en mi pais.

MUCHOS SALUDOS_CAROLINA!!!

thanks for the compliments julie! is there any way for me to find out when and where the photos will be used? (does whomever uses it send you a link, or let you know where it'll be?)

Hello Julie!
You deffenetly need to go to Benin! Such a great place and quite mystical, being the birth place of Vodoun(voodoo). I'd be happy to talk to you about it more.

I really like Angelique, we actually saw her house in Cotonou. She is very well respected in this part of the world, of course. I never heard of songline magazine, but I will look into it for sure! Thanks!

Julie,
We're going to the major cities and a few off-the-beaten path places. The place I'm most looking forward to is a visit to Kaiping, which is the city from which my grandparents emigrated from more than 50 years ago.

Thanks for posting.

Thank you Julie. How lucky you are to have been there 8 times. I want to go to Cuba so bad! It's such a unique country. If I get the chance I will definitely let you know. You can educate me about the island.

Take care,
Kenny

Hey Julie,

Thanks for the kind words, reading my blog, and including it in your post!

-MOJO
"Live simply, so that others may simply live."

Thanks, likewise. First of all I'm just trying to get my head around all the info on this site but I keep getting sucked into articles and forgetting what I was trying to find. Not necessarily a bad thing.

Thanks! And I'm glad we were not as unfortunate as you...sounds like it was pretty bad!

Julie,
Re-sized and Digitally watermarked some photos and re-posted them. Hope all is well.
Cheers,
Mike

Julie,
Thanks; I uploaded 5 photos and passed the word on to friends.

Hey Julie,

You might like how your article is "quoted" entirely by a lot of other "travel websites".. I wrote about Flashpacking and (your) original content vs. duplicates on my little Flashpacking Tumblr!

Enjoy,

Andrea

Hi Julie... all done. It's a rewrite more than a remix. Hope it works for you and the BNT readers.
Ciao

Excellent. Thanks to you and Tom for featuring us. I hope our Great Barrier Reef/Beijing history fits with the travel theme. Feel free to come play on www.carrotproject.com and tell us what you think about what we've put together so far.

Thank you very much for the warm welcome - am absolutely loving the site!

I am desperately trying to raise £2000 to put the roof on the health centre in Petifu and provide solar power to run a light bulb and a fridge. In February, when I return to SL, my main focus is to oversee the above and also to meet with ministers again to try and improve the drug supply issues that all rural villages in SL have to endure.

We have a website: www.communityhealthtrust.co.uk and every last penny that we can raise goes directly into the Petifu fund, all travel and expense is paid by myself and anyone wishing to come out there with me would have to pay their own way.

One area I have no knowledge on is solar power - so would welcome anyone with any knowledge dropping me a line.

Thank you very much and will, of course, blog my next trip :-)

Hi Julie...thanks for writing! Your Cuban men/American women documentary is definitely something I want to hear more about and watch someday! Very interesting... Also - I want to DF for the first time in 08 and loved it! How cool you split your time between NYC and there. Take care, Terry

Thank you so much. I am planning a 20 day trip, staying in hostels, with not much agenda as of yet. I am treating as a small artistic sabbatical. I have read a few of your columns and they are all very helpful.

Thanks for the comment! I will try to update my blog as often as I can while abroad!!

That's really cool! My friend and I are traveling around the Mayan Riviera/Yucatan Peninsula... we found a really cheap flight into Cancun and are kind of winging it from there.

Fantastic! Will it be your first time in Mexico? If you head up to Mexico City, let me know!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/arts/music/23pare.html?_r=1&hp

Just in case you hadn't seen it yet. I also decided on going to Santiago for xmas and new years. Some of those photos I saw in your article were a big reason for the decision.

Hi Julie,

Thanks for the welcome note : ) It's great to be a part of the network and to be providing (hopefully entertaining and informative) stories.

Cheers,

Marie

Well cool, I really enjoy everything I've read so far! And I'm up for long stories, when you, too, are looking for a chance to procrastinate. Ah writers, does anyone else procrastinate so well?

I'm getting my MFA in creative writing, so I get to do a dual analytical and creative thesis. The creative portion is a longer project focusing on childhood/coming of age in the Borscht Belt in the 1950s, basically taking my father's old childhood stories and fictionalizing them to capture that very specific time and place, and seeing how I can use traditional storytelling techniques from legend and lore to tell a very realist story. Drawing from that, the analytical portion focuses on uses of the fantastic in 20th and 21st century American Jewish writer, using writers like Kafka and Babel as historical foregrounding, but focusing more on writers like Malamud and Jonathan Safran Foer. In search of a Jewish Magical Realism, I suppose. Hey, that's a good title!

How about you? How did you wind up with such a sweet gig?! And what are your current projects? Seems like you're all over Matador!

Hi Julie- Thanks for your comments on my blog. I've read through a few of your entries and it sounds like you're having quite the experience, and you certainly make it interesting to read about. I'll definitely be checking your blog when I'm looking for more excuses to procrastinate thesis work!

Leah

It's possible we were there at the same time! I spent about a week there and I posted late, so maybe I saw you floating around some where... :)

hey thanks 4 reading my little blog...how's mexico?

Hi!

Isn't Sintra absolutely beautifull? One of my favourite places...

thanks so much for welcoming me to Matador. I love it here!!!

Thanks for the welcome. I actually live on Long Island, right on the queens border. LIC is a great neighborhood, its come a long way in the last few years. How often are in you in NY?

You're not far then... we should spearhead a Matador NYC meet-up this fall-- are you game?

We'll be back in NYC towards the end of October. I'm going to Guantanamo Bay October 20-23, and then I'll be back in NYC.

Thanks for the comment, Julie! Family life would be going a lot better had we not lost Norm about a month back.

That aside, Lily is the greatest kid in existence--I sure as hell don't know how WE did it.

I'll probably continue to be slow, with a full courseload, a semi-full workload, and an earnest desire to contribute to more publications. All of this needs to be nestled between matters of a domestic nature--garden tilling, car maintenence, cleaning, winterizing, etc.

I hope all is going well for you and Francisco in...where the hell are you guys, now? Mexico? ;)

hi! thanks for the welcome note! =)

Hiya...thanks for the welcome! That's so neighbourly of you ;) How do you learn so many languages? Doesn't it get confusing?? I lived in Mexico (San Jose del Cabo) for 6 months many, many moons ago...the spanish still helps when I travel in Spain! One day I will become fluent. Hasta luego!

matadorpulse wont allow me to log on and it deleted my post to your Sicily thread after one night of being online.

I would love to goto Sicily again, I was very young the last time i went and plan to go this coming summer. The book your giving away would be appreciated!

Oh! I love Old San Juan too! One of the most beautiful places I have been.

Thanks for the welcome and your message!

Hi, Glad you commented on my blog and I came over to your profile to visit. I love your writing - thanks for the interesting and inspiring content. I visited Mexico as a teenager on a missionary trip, and have never managed to sort out the profound jumble of feelings it provoked. Guess now I am all 'grown up' (are we ever, really??) and supposed to be writing for a living I should put some of it down on paper. I look forward to reading more from you. -Angela-

Thanks for the welcome. I am definitely still very interested in Columbia and hope to go there soon while many people are still afraid to go;) How did you like it?

hi
novoarte...

keep it up i like the views and love
to travel also.

much care
jolina

Thanks for your comment on my recent PR blog, Julie. I was definitely stunned by the diversity of the island--something I wasn't expecting. And I'd surely love to take a look at the Sandburg travelogue if it's not too much trouble for you. My email is if you want to send it to me there.

Actually, I've been meaning to pitch a piece on PR to Matador, only I'm in the process of moving out of my apartment and starting a 5-week bike tour through Maritime Canada, so I'm not sure when I'll have time to do it. My idea was to cover three great hiking opportunities, ranging from the obvious to the obscure: Yunque, Guanica, and Guajataca. With Tim gone, do you know who I should contact from Trips about this?

Thanks a million,
- Hal

Thanks for your comment and encouragement!

I'm just an hour or so north of you here in Pachuca--maybe we can meet one day--I'd love to get advice on the expat life and intercultural marriage!

Cuidate.

Thanks for the comment! I'm glad to hear it's not a problem only I'm dealing with.. :)
So, have about you? You there or have you passed through it? :)

Hi!! Well, you know Portugal and you love Saramago, this only test that you have very good taste … rsrs.
Thanks for leaving to participate me of your group. Tchau... David

I love Portugal! I went to Sintra and Lisboa about 10 years ago and can't wait to visit again!

Thanks for the link to the heli-skiing. Awesome video!
Also, thanks for befriending me ;)
-Jeff

p.s.
Just ignore the same comment I left on your La Flaneur post. I dont know how I managed to post there. Its been a long day!

thank you! :)

Was written for Christine. Should be up within the next 2-3 weeks

thanks! I will let you know when I need tips for Mexico and/or Cuba... hopefully it's sooner rather than later!

I think I just made the server crash...

Damn... 15967 and counting. Now if I could just overtake "10 Steps to Becoming Fluent in a Language in 6 months or Less"!

Thanks Julie. Working on the next piece as we speak. By the way, where are you viewing the page view count?

Hi Julie,

Looking forward to meeting you. Many thanks for the words of encouragement.

all the very best,

Wanda

Thanks for the blog comment. I really wanted to convey developing-world travel to casual readers and travelers, which many Sunday Morning paper readers are. I'm new to the site, but I look forward to checking out other travelers' blogs and photos. It looks like you've been to some amazing places. I love DF. I hope you're enjoyig it.

Thanks for that Julie. I'm glad to see that the "seedier" parts are improving. I passed it along to my parents, who think I'm crazy for going to Ecuador.

Thanks for all your help! Be well. tan

Wow, that's pretty interesting stuff. I didn't even know about that. Thanks for the heads up. I'm definitely going to have to look out for that when I get down there. Maybe I'll even get to write about it if I find out enough.

Jon

Hi Julie,

Thanks so much for the link...it's amazing what people can achieve despite their disabilities. I heard of one guy running across the US with one leg! Incredible...Carol's situation is not as serious as the people described in the article, but she can definitely share the frustrations of having to deal with similar obstacles every day.
Saw you have been studying literature at school...I've written a few novels myself, but it's so hard to get them published. You almost have to self-publish these days...

Josh and Carol.

Hi! Thanks for the blog comment, that was a great trip with my mom. It was her first time in NYC. In fact, she took her first trip EVER outside of the U.S. last year at age 60. She just hadn't had the time before she retired, I was so happy for her!

Check back as I'll be updating more frequently, I've been doing mostly U.S. travel lately. I'm looking forward to reading through your blogs...looks like you've had a lot of great adventures!

Hi novoarte
where are you going to be in Morocco? it is worth a visit believe me. you are welcome

Thanks a lot for the recommendations. I'll have to check them out before I leave.

Jon

Thankyou for the welcome.

I'm not sure where I'll be yet. I might not find that out until I'm getting ready to leave. Yeah any information you have to give would be great. Thanks.

Jon

Hey. Just thought I'd let you know. I've decided to go to Ecuador. So I'll be heading there in September.

Lagos is a great little beach town in the southwestern corner of Portugal. Great people, great scenery. Everything about it is perfect. About a half hour down the road you can get to the cliffs where they used to think it was the end of the world--great for sunsets. Just a really nice place to visit.
-Jon

Thanks for the comment on my blog. I see you've been to Sintra. Did you ever make it down to Lagos?

Thanks for the kind comment on my blog! Busy reading up on your advice about getting organized for writing in 2008.

I saw your interest in Havana and you would have loved the Taschen book on Cuba that I saw at an art cafe the other day.

Cheers,

Peter

Thanks for the kind comment on my blog! Busy reading up on your advice about getting organized for writing in 2008.

I saw your interest in Havana and you would have loved the Taschen book on Cuba that I saw at an art cafe the other day.

Cheers,

Peter

Hi, Peter-

Thanks for your message. I saw that Taschen book-- yes, it was pretty incredible! Gotta say I haven't seen a whole lot of houses like those in Cuba! :)
Apparently, Taschen has a few books in that series, and I'm thinking I saw one for China-- just can't remember off the top of my head which city it was.
I'm looking forward to reading more.

Peace,
Julie

Thanks for the comment. Hope you are enjoying Puerto Rico.