Traveler Profile: Newman

(Newman)Log-in

View Photo Gallery (13)

Add to My Network

Send Private Message

View All (7)

No posts yet. View other Travel Forum posts.

This user hasn't written any guides yet.

Screen name:

Newman

Age:

Gender:

Female

If you must know:

I'm single

Travel status:

Traveling soon

Hometown:

Farmington Hills, MI

Currently in:

San Francisco, CA

Traveling Next:

Favorite places I've been:

Baxter State Park, Acadia, Olympic National Park, Banff, Jasper, Granada, Cordoba, Alaska, Vancouver, BC, Yukon Territory, Idaho Springs, CO, Mt. Rainier, Bellingham, Glacier Natl Park...

Places I want to go to:

New Zealand, China, Nepal

About me:

I crave adventure...

Profile URL:

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

Read more about Newman

I'm fired up on:

I love to climb (even though I'm not that great), have a background in freshwater ecology, love anything having to do with the ocean...

Tunes I rock out to:

Jackie Greene, Hot buttered Rum, Jack Johnson, Ben harper

Travel style:

Laid back, go with the flow.

Quote:

"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you --- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls."

-- Edward Abbey

Sports I do:

rock climb, mountain bike, would like to surf

Favorite books:

Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hahn

Who I'd like to meet on my travels:

maybe you.

I want to make a difference by:

Protecting Our World Oceans

* June 8th, 2008 is World Ocean Day. This yearly phenomenon is an opportunity to celebrate our world ocean and our personal connection to the sea.

* For 2008's celebration, we are trying to make World Ocean Day a Day Without Plastic.

* Plastic products consume our everyday lives and are hard to avoid.

* Although useful in some aspects, they are a nuisance in many and often times end up polluting our environment.

* Our ocean is becoming a place full of plastic as every minute we throw away more than a million oil-based plastic bags, consume mountains of plastic bottles and heaps of single-use stryofoam ware.

* Please, please SPREAD THE WORD and join us June 8th and everyday!! You'll meet people who care, just like you. And you'll learn about all the things that end up, eventually, in the ocean (or ALMOST in the ocean).

* Please visit the aDayWithoutPlastic.org BLOG and let us know what you are doing...today, every day.

* Also check out The Ocean Project's site to learn more about World Ocean Day. http://www.theoceanproject.org/wod/wod.php

* And the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. http://www.algalita.org/index.html

Languages spoken, other than English:

spanish

Why I travel:

It makes me feel alive.

Ideal place to watch the sunrise:

in the mountains near a lake

Ideal place to watch the sunset:

lying on my back in the fields near the Elkhorn Ranger Station on the Elwha River Trail, Olympic Natl Park

My links: