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| Thai Voluntourism, Bamboo Bridges, & the Obama Grocery Store
We've Succumbed to the Peer Pressure
Put Some Phrases in Your Pocket
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Thai Voluntourism, Bamboo Bridges, & the Obama Grocery Store
New writers and returning ones take you to multiple spots on the globe this month. Bangladesh guidebook author Mikey Leung turns in "The Enfield Diaries," a tale of being lured into buying a Royal Enfield motorcycle in Nepal and driving it through India and (hopefully) to Bangladesh. Moon Handbook hiking guides author Theresa Dowell Blackinton makes her debut with "An Ugly American One Year, a Pretty One the Next." It’s a rumination on how U.S. travelers are perceived and welcomed depending on who is occupying the White House.
Gillian Kendall returns with "Voluntourism for All the Wrong Reasons," a tale from her stay at an elephant rehabilitation camp in Thailand.
Amy Carlson steps up to do the travel book reviews, covering The Lunatic Express, The Wandering Lake, and the Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010. (The last one, by the way, features four contributors to Perceptive Travel, including one of our bloggers, Allison Stein Wellner.) I cover the world music reviews, with a Latin-America-only trio this time.
See it all here: May issue of Perceptive Travel.
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We've Succumbed to the Peer Pressure
So far I've personally kept control of my day by refusing to get involved with the time-suck that is Facebook. But Ive bowed to pressure and set up a fan page---or Like page as they're calling it now.
Right now it's quite sparse since it just went up, but soon we'll start feeding new stories and blog posts into there. If that's how you get your info these days, go sign up here:
Perceptive Travel Facebook page.
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Put Some Phrases in Your Pocket
Congrats to Don L. from Alaska, a newsletter subscriber who submitted correct answers to our monthly contest. He's going to be kicking back this summer in a packable hammock and pillow from Eagle's Nest Outfitters.
This month's contest is open to all subscribers around the world and we're doing it a little differently this time. Instead of asking you questions about the issue, we want to get to know you better.
So go fill out this very short four-question survey and you'll automatically be entered to win!
What do you get? Well two lucky winners will get their choice of pocket language guides from 30 Words. They come in two versions of Spanish and four other languages. See the home page for more, or follow this link to the 30 Words site.
The contest is open through May 30, but enter before you forget!
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Thanks for your support--keep spreading the word!
Happy Trails,
Tim Leffel
Editor, Perceptive Travel
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