Hello Globies! Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. Due to holiday parties, travel and cheer, we will not be holding a December Globies meeting. We WILL resume on 5th January with a treat! Matt Link, an Associate Editor from Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel will be our guest speaker.
Matt will be giving a slide show and discussing the sites and culture of Ghana (the most popular country for American tourists in West Africa), with notes on spending time with the Muslims who live and work there, as well as important sites i.e., visiting a mud mosque and much more. He plans to make us feel a part of the Ghanaian culture and will be bringing some special props to help with our immersion! Matt has been travelling since the age of twelve, when he boarded his family’s boat for five years and sailed around the Pacific including the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, the Solomon Islands, and New Zealand, where he attended high school. He hasn’t stopped since, having visited dozens of countries in Eurasia and living for a number of years in both Hong Kong and Hawaii, where he ran kayak tours and published the guidebook Rainbow Handbook Hawaii. He now lives in New York where he works with Arthur Frommer as Associate Editor of the magazine Budget Travel. Keep an eye out of this Sunday’s (12/16) travel section of the LA Times and Miami Herald and a few other regional papers – Matt’s account of his trip to Ghana will appear in Frommer’s column! On January 4th, he’s a guest on The Early Today show (and they mean early – 4:30-5:30 AM!) on NBC.
I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday. See you all soon!
New York meetings are held at The Wings Theater, 154 Christopher Street(btw Greenwich Stand Washington St), to the right of Crunch Fitness, in the Archive on the first Saturday of each month at 4 pm.