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Volunteer Vet needed in Yap, Micronesia

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Screen name:

bethdod

Age:

Gender:

Female

If you must know:

I'm happily married

Travel status:

Traveling now

Hometown:

Dallas, TX

Currently in:

Yap, Micronesia

Traveling Next:

somewhere fun!

Favorite places I've been:

Fiji and Japan!

Places I want to go to:

EVERYWHERE. Especially Antarctica

About me:

I love to dance. I was in ballet for ten years, but really I like any kind of dancing that involves my friends and a few drinks. I am not afraid to make a complete fool out of myself, and I often do. I may never grow up. Or maybe, growing up for me is accepting that I may never be "mature." If I had one wish I would want to speak every language in the world fluently.

Profile URL:

http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/lucky1

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I'm fired up on:

writing, running, dancing in the sand in barefeet, doing silly crazy things with my friends as if we're in middle school still

Tunes I rock out to:

EVERYTHING... well, maybe not most country and a lot of rap, but everything else. I love Chris Isaac when I'm sad; I can drown myself in melancholy.

Travel style:

I love traveling with my husband, though we are very different travelers. I like to plan everything; he likes to just find it as it comes along. We balance each other nicely. And, I love to take ultra luxious vacations, but I've had the most fun on the vacations where we've been on a tight budget.

Quote:

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. ~Lillian Smith

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~James Michener

Sports I do:

I don't like sports... but I guess if rock climbing and running count

Favorite artist(s):

at the moment: Jack Johnson

Favorite books:

Memoirs of a Geisha, I'm Charlotte Simmons, Getting Stoned with Savages

Who I'd like to meet on my travels:

everyone! we have already made such wonderful, lifelong friends on our jouneys

I want to make a difference by:

understanding more of the world through travel and by introduction to new cultures and new people. I want to make a difference through writing about what I've seen and what I feel. I want to make a difference currently through Y.A.P.S., Inc. (Yap Animal Protection Society) and take small steps like this to improve the world not just for humans but for all the other creatures we share Earth with.

Languages spoken, other than English:

French

I felt the most immersed in a foreign culture when:

Now.... smoking and chewing the b-nut.

Why I travel:

I am restless. I have always been this way, even as a child. I cannot stand to be in one place too long. I feel that the world is too large to not want to constantly explore it and see what else is out there. It is not that where I am is not WONDERFUL, but if this is this great, there must be other wonderful places out there I haven't seen yet!

Ideal place to watch the sunrise:

My favorite hill in Nimar

Ideal place to watch the sunset:

on a sailboat in the Pacific, drinking Veuve

Before I die I'd like to:

see the world, and climb every highest peak in each area I visit... so far, I have to return to Japan for Mt. Fuji. I want to go hang-gliding and sky diving. I want to spend my life with my husband, my co-conspiritor in never growing old.

Let's collaborate:

I'm a travel writer, looking for freelance work.
I also am a founder of Yap Animal Protection Society, Inc. and looking for volunteer vets, donations, or fundraising ideas.

My links:

www.freewebs.com/bethdod

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by sophialove | 2009/06/18

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

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When winged creatures take flight... underwater?

By bethdod | Location: Micronesia | 03/25/09 | Pics: 0

I am often told I am spoiled by friends back home. I often feel like my friends back home don’t understand what my life is really like here in “paradise.” They say, you live on a tropical island, how could you get bored? They think I’m spoiled to complain at all, since I live on a tropical...

Yap Day 2009

By bethdod | Location: Micronesia | 03/14/09 | Pics: 0

There is something about Yap Day that brings out a sophomoric and frenzied energy to the island. At the conclusion of the weekend I said that Yap Day is Yap’s Mardi Gras. If you think of it from that perspective you begin to get a picture of what we were feeling as the three-day...

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