Max Hartshorne the editor of GoNOMAD. Click the photo to watch a video about our website.

GoNOMAD--The Alternative Travel Network

Check here regularly for the latest press releases and media information about GoNOMAD.com, the alternative travel portal where you can read fresh travel articles and accurate destination guides, browse hundreds of tour company listings, and buy air, rail, hotels, cars, and anything else you'll need to take your own journey.

May 2007

The GoNOMAD Cafe celebrates one year in business and adds sandwiches, new coffee drinks, and salads to the menu. A larger new cappuccino maker joins an industrial sized oven to allow many more exciting foods to be served.

The cafe has become the hub of the town, a gathering place for many folks young and old. GoNOMAD.com counts 340,000 unique monthly visitors exploring the website and our CPC, CPA and CPM ad programs bear generous fruit. Internet Advertising Has Arrived.
Content arrangements with Tribune Publishing and other newspaper companies provides added publicity plus a new revenue stream. Yahoo Travel links 400 of GoNOMAD's articles as expert guides on their site.

February 2006

GoNOMAD.com owner Max Hartshorne opens the new GoNOMAD Café in bustling downtown South Deerfield, where customers can get coffee and pastries, check their email and surf the web. The new café features five pcs as well as wireless access.

December 2005

A crew from WGBY Springfield visits GoNOMAD's offices to shoot a segment for their series "Making it Here " that was aired in May 2006. Watch the 6-minute episode.

The GoNOMAD Cafe in South Deerfield, MA.

August 2005

GoNOMAD.com is written up The Associated Press. This story appears in newspapers all over the US and Canada, including The Sacramento Bee, The Boston Herald, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Brandon (Ontario) Sun, The San Mateo County Times and the Windsor (Ontario) Star.

Traffic has never been higher on the site, and publicity continues to come in about our kind of travel.

More than 7500 readers visit GoNOMAD.com every day, view traffic stats.

February 2005

GoNOMAD.com emerges from the cellar! The website officially moves out of editor Max Hartshorne's basement to a spacious office at 14A Sugarloaf Street in picturesque South Deerfield, Massachusetts, next to Charsky Insurance and Fisher's Garage.

March 2004

GoNOMAD.com is written up in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. "If you approach something with real passion and dedication and think about it all the time, and work on it until 1 am," Hartshorne told Staff Writer Nick Grabbe, "eventually you're going to succeed. I'm already succeeding by traveling, editing and teaching people how to work with the Web. And I'm having a ball."

January 2004
GoNOMAD.com Editor Max Hartshorne, Senior Travel Editor Kent St. John, Travel Writers Cindy Bigras and Lisa St. John, and Sales Director Joe O'Rourke staff an exhibit at the Adventure Expo at the Javits Center in New York City. 22,000 people attend.

March 2002
Former Transitions Abroad Editor Max Hartshorne acquires GoNOMAD.com from Creator Lauryn Axelrod. Computer Engineer Joe O'Beng, a former mathematics teacher from Ghana, joins the site as Webmaster. A story about the transfer appeared in The Recorder in Greenfield and the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton. "As opposed to what most travel is, going to Disney World or lying down on a beach and winding down,” Hartshorne told Arn Albertini of The Recorder, “Alternative travel is involved travel. It's learning travel. It's active travel. It's making an effort to engage with the people who live in the countries you visit."

August 15, 2000
GoNOMAD.com is officially launched by its creator, Lauryn Axelrod. Read her original press release:
New Travel Website offers Alternatives to Package Tours, Cookie-Cutter Hotels and Crowded Destinations

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