| GoNOMAD February 2004 Newsletter |
Here's what you can find on GoNOMAD today…
New stories added this month:
Destinations
Ring Around the Kremlin
The Russian Bear is alive and thriving. It is 90% Teddy and 10% Grizzly. I found out during a recent visit to Moscow in September. In many ways my preconceived notions from a childhood filled with James Bond, cold war and détente proved wrong. Some however proved true. All in all Moscow should fit with anyone's idea of a city packed with history, art and excitement.
Better yet is the unraveling of history in the making. Moscow is determined to take its place on the world stage. Continue story...
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oNOMAD Destination
Mini Guide: Trinidad
Trinidad is located at the southerly tip of Venezuela and is part of the Caribbean . It is a twin isle with its other half known as the sister isle of Tobago . The capital city of Trinidad is Port of Spain that is home to the zoo, museums, botanical gardens and a business hub. Each coast has something to offer the West accommodates sailing enthusiasts, the East coast offers stretches of long sandy beaches, the South offers a view to Venezuela and the north coast offers Maracas Beach the most popular beach. The scenery in Trinidad covers everything from a bustling mall to the fields of tranquil sugar cane. Continue story...
The Real Cold Mountain:
North Carolina's Chilly, Hilly West
"Inman can see west for scores of miles. Crests and scarp and crags stacked and grey to the long horizon. Catalucci, the Cherokee word was, meaning waves and mountains and fading roads, this day the waves could hardly be different from the raw winter sky that were barred and marbled and same-shades of gray only. The outlook stretched high and low like a great slab of streaked meat…it was to Cold Mountain he looked. He had achieved a vista of what for him was homeland." – excerpt from Cold Mountain
On bookshelves around the world is Cold Mountain, a best-selling novel by Charles Frazier, whose lyrical prose makes you feel as if you have been to the summit. In the book, Inman, a wounded Confederate solider, leaves his hospital bed and heads home, on foot, to Cold Mountain. Continue story...
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ravel Desk
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Travel Books
Traveler's Tales Cuba:"Bring on the Americans!"
An anthology of stories about the forbidden Caribbean island that so many of us long to visit, and so many more each year actually do. This excerpt is of a story about the sensual dancing that is such a big part of life on this island.
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Alternatives
Beans, Bananas and Bills:
Learning and Living in Tanzania
I never imagined that spending three weeks at the end of the earth, or the village of Kayanga in the Kagera region
of rural Tanzania, would be the best experience I've ever had in my life.
But it was.
Dirt roads. Limited electricity and water supply. No radio, television, movies, email, instant messaging, or cell phones. Beans, rice, potatoes and bananas twice a day every day. I may have been there to help lay the foundation for an AIDS orphanage, but in the process I was able to take part in a wide array of meaningful activities. Continue story...
| Amigos offers Life-changing Experiences: Make a Difference! Brazil *Costa Rica *Dominican Republic*Panama *Honduras Mexico *Nicaragua* Paraguay Amigos de las Americas is an international, volunteer based non-profit organization which provides youth volunteers with real responsibility and leadership positions during training and while serving in community development projects such as educational mural paintings, garden planting, forming youth groups, and helping improve school buildings,etc in Latin America.  Since 1965, more than 18,000 AMIGOS volunteers have lived with families and worked in 15 Latin American and Caribbean countries. AMIGOS volunteers not only make a real and sustainable difference in helping to improve the quality of life in |
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Latin America, but they also receive first-hand experience in teaching, facilitation, public health, environmental education and international relations. Dates: Students at least 16 years old, who meet the AMIGOS language and training requirements, spend 4- 8 weeks living in rural and semi-urban communities and providing community development services, June- August.
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