Travel Outward Contributors
Alternative Arts
Alternative Arts organizes events throughout the city of London that highlight diversity, art, and culture. Their 2003 program includes a number of festivals taking place in the Spitalfields area, Brick Lane, Covent Garden, and beyond. They can be found online at http://www.alternativearts.co.uk/.
Web site: http://www.alternativearts.co.uk
Alexander MacInnes
A native of New Jersey, Alexander MacInnes now lives and works in Littleton, New Hampshire, reporting for the Vermont newspaper, The Caledonian-Record.
Number of posts: 1
Andrew Schapiro
Andrew Schapiro is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and currently a student at Davidson College in North Carolina. He is studying in Paris during the spring of 2003. In addition to taking courses for his major in art history and brushing up on his French, Andrew plans to travel throughout Europe during his semester abroad.
Number of posts: 1
Anthony Schweizer
Anthony Schweizer is an American residing in London. He has worked in production with National Geographic television and in marketing with Patagonia. Anthony is an avid traveler and has taken part in adventures around the globe.
Daren Stinson
Daren Stinson is a self-taught tax expert who, for many years, lived on Martha's Vineyard Island, Massachusetts. She recently relocated to Durango, CO, before living in Scotsdale, Arizona. To date, Daren has visited countries on six of the seven continents. She has contributed photographs from the U.K. and Martha's Vineyard, as well as articles on the United Kingdom and Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico.
Number of posts: 6
Ben MacInnes
Ben MacInnes lives with his growing family in Greenwich, Connecticut. Having gone through a few unsuccessful dot.com experiences, he's currently exploring more stable work opportunities. He has recently published articles in The Caledonian-Record and the business section of The Norwalk Hour.
Number of posts: 1
Bianca Norris
Bianca Norris is a horror novelist from South Carolina who has had every job known to man, from a U.S. Army cook, to a probation officer, to working at a truck stop. Bianca's goal? "I plan to travel the world ... one word at a time." Her contributions to Travel Outward include a feature article on Coamo, Puerto Rico.
Number of posts: 1
Billy Whitridge
Billy Whitridge is resident of San Francisco, where he works in the finance industry. His adventures have taken him throughout the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and the South Pacific. His contributions to Travel Outward include a New Zealand Destinations page.
Number of posts: 1
Christopher G. Shepard
Christopher G. Shepard is an avid traveler and writer who lives in Watertown, Massachusetts, with his fiancee and two cats. He works as a logistics manager, online English professor, and sports handicapper. Christopher's contributions to Travel Outward include a feature article on the Republic of Georgia, as well as a Destinations page on the same subject.
Number of posts: 1
David Varner
David Varner lives in Idaho. He has explored North America extensively, with his dog Boone, and has visited Africa, Asia, and South America. David has been most fulfilled by reflections that other cultures offer on his own identity and culture. His contributions to Travel Outward include information on Bangladash; he is currently working an a feature article about his time living there.
Evan L. Balkan
Evan L. Balkan lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland, where he teaches English at the Community College of Baltimore County and where he is a student in the graduate creative writing program at the Johns Hopkins University. In the last thirteen years, he has set foot in over eighteen countries. Evan's contributions to Travel Outward include the feature article "Irish Hospitality."
Number of posts: 1
Finn Stinson
Finn Stinson, operator of “Finns” fly-fishing guide service out of Christchurch, New Zealand, which specializes in fishing for brown trout and salmon. Finn and his brother Ru were world class fly fisherman who had fished in New England, Argentina, Alaska, British Columbia, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and countless small streams and river all over the world. The brothers tragically passed away in 2004 in a single car accident while traveling back to Alaska after fishing for Steelhead Trout on the Babine River in British Columbia. They are sorely missed by their numerous friends around the world.
Number of posts: 2
Gina Perry
Gina Perry is a freelance writer who loves to travel. She has travel extensively in South America and loves to spread the word about the wonder of the lively place.
Ieuan Dolby
Ieuan Dolby is from Scotland. He lives and works in Taiwan with his wife. For fifteen years he has traveled the world many times over as an Engineer Officer in the Mechant Navy. Now trying to dry out, he writes freelance for various maritime and technical publications.
Number of posts: 1
Jennifer Stinson
Web site: http://seasaltjewelry.com
John Stinson
John Stinson is a semi-retired investment counselor and a historian with a special interest in the battles of World War II. He is current written books about investing, history and politics, you can read more of his work at xlibris.com. He lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard, in Massachusetts, where he keeps an extensive library on the subject.
Number of posts: 2
John Stinson, Jr.
John's contributions to Travel Outward include an article on his travels to Newfoundland, Canada.
Number of posts: 1
Jamie Schapiro
Jamie Schapiro is a San Francisco-based photographer and graduate of St. Lawrence University and the Rocky Mountain School of Photography. In addition to being one of the official photographers for the 2002 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, he has also shot a wide range of other subjects, including material for a number of corporate clients. More of Jamie's work can be viewed online at http://www.jamieschapiro.com.
Number of posts: 1
Web site: http://www.jamieschapiro.com
Julie Thompson
Julie Thompson, is a freelance journalist from New Zealand. Julie has worked with the Global Volunteer Network, a private, Non Government Organization (NGO) based in Wellington, New Zealand. GVN connects people with communities in need by supporting the work of local community organizations in countries through the placement of international volunteers.
Number of posts: 1
Jeff Walpole
Jeff Walpole is the founder and managing partner of an information technology consulting firm in Washington, DC--a career that allows him to pursue his passions for travel and photography. His beginner's strategy is to shoot locations that are stunning enough to stand on their own. His photographs of the Alsek River appear in our feature article on that subject.
Kim Kroonenburg
Born in France to Dutch parents, Kim Kroonenburg spent her childhood being whisked away from one exotic location to the next. Writing became a means to stay sane. Kim has a Bachelor’s degree in environmental geography. She and her horse currently live in Mexico, where Kim studies Native American herbalism.
Number of posts: 1
Laurie Pritchard
Laurie is an American freelance writer living in Cairns, Australia. Laurie also works for an adventure company. she has studied in France, taught English in China, and have traveled in Africa, Asia, Europe, Central America and the Pacific Islands.
Number of posts: 1
Laurence Constable
Laurence started traveling as a child, beginning with summer trips with his family to Lake Temagami in northern Ontario. He has since motorcycled the width of the United States, photographed big game in South Africa, and rafted from the interior of the Yukon Territory to the Alaskan coast. His European experience has taken him around the continent from Paris to Prague, and throughout the British Isles.
Number of posts: 35
Web site: http://traveloutward.com
Lori Guretzki
Lori Guretzki was born in Saskatchewan, raised in Alberta and now lives in British Columbia, Canada. She shares her love of traveling with her husband Joe and together they have visited such places as Peru, Singapore, Malaysia, Aruba, West Indies and many, many more. She is an Administrative Clerk in a large high school by day and a writer by night. Lori’s latest accomplishment is her published book, The Reluctant Traveler, an amusing and entertaining day by day diary of the trials and tribulations of holidaying in Peru, South America.
Number of posts: 1
Liz Hopkins
Liz Hopkins is an international development consultant based in Boston, Massachusetts. She travels as often as possible and enjoys documenting her travel through photography. The photographic essay on Cuba is her first contribution to Travel Outward.
Number of posts: 1
Larry Watkins
Larry Watkins is a technical writer and novelist living in Los Alamitos, California. He spent his childhood around power boats and served as an engineer aboard a U.S. Army tugboat in Thailand during the Vietnam era. Larry began sailing in the seventies and has been a dedicated cruiser ever since. His first published novel, The Bangkok Blues, is available at Amazon.com. More information about Larry and his to-be-released writing can be found at www.seafiction.com.
Number of posts: 1
Michael J. Quinn
For more than 30 years, as a communicator for both non-profit and for-profit organizations, and as a freelance writer since 1986, Micheal has developed a variety of creative solutions to communications challenges through succinct writing, visual concepts and appropriate humor.
Number of posts: 1
Web site: http://www.writingfortheear.blogspot.com
Maciej Karasinski
Maciej is a student of oriental philology and comparative literature at Jagiellonian University Poland. Maciej also works as a journalist and tour leader who specialized in India and Nepal.
Marshall Schoenthal
Marshall is a strapping young lad with charm and looks that make the women of the world go crazy. He is an avid mountain climber, race car driver, helicopter pilot, and sailboat captain. After a five-year career as an astronaut, he discovered gold while on vacation in the Yukon. With his fortune he has opened a home for disadvantaged youth. Other interests include reading to the blind, abstract art, poetry, and bowling. His contributions to Travel Outward include his travel log while living and working in Bombay, India.
Number of posts: 2
Matt Scott
Matt Scott is currently a graduate student in Cardiff, Wales. He has spent several years traveling and working abroad in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America. When he's not on the road, Matt is either reading the latest travel books or trying to plan his next trip. Matt's contributions to Travel Outward include an article and photographs from the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
Number of posts: 1
Peter Alfrey
Peter Alfrey lives in Needham, Massachusetts, and works in the Boston office of Ernst & Young LLP in sales and marketing. A native of San Bruno, California, he is also a graduate student at Providence College, pursuing a master's degree in modern European history. Peter's contribution to Travel Outward includes the article "Missing the Wicket in Search of Cricket," about his hunt for a cricket match on the Caribbean island of Providenciales.
Number of posts: 1
Pam Weiant
Pam Weiant is a doctoral student of marine science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her research interests include marine protected areas and the monitoring protocols related to them. She has spent six months during a two-year span working and living in the community of Baraulu in the Solomon Islands.
Number of posts: 2
Dana Stinson
Number of posts: 1
Sean Kelly
Number of posts: 1
Stephen Linaweaver
Stephen Linaweaver is an environmental consultant, river guide, and writer from Baltimore, Maryland.
Number of posts: 1
Shala Salazar
Shala Salazar is an amateur photographer and writer who has traveled extensively in The Netherlands.
Number of posts: 1
Shane Williams-Ness
Shane's contributions to Travel Outward include an article on her travels to Burma (Myanmar).
Number of posts: 2
Seth Zuckerman
Seth Zuckerman is chief correspondent for Tidepool News Service. His contributions to Travel Outward include "Lessons from Cuba: What Can We Learn from Cuba's Two-Tier Tourist Economy?", which was originally published on Tidepool's Web site.
Number of posts: 1
Thomas Lera
Thomas has traveled throughout the world, always looking for different places and experiences - from the Mayan ruins at Tikal, Incan ruins at Machu Picchu and the Roman ruins at Pompeii.
Number of posts: 1
Tracy Olson
Tracy Olson teaches high school English at a small school in Falmouth, Massachusetts. She is at work on a master's degree in English literature at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, Vermont, and plans to start law school in the fall of 2003.
Number of posts: 1