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Hello Globies! Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. Due to holiday
\n parties, travel and cheer, we will not be holding a December Globies meeting.
\n We WILL resume on 5th<\/sup> January with a treat!
\n Matt Link, an Associate Editor from Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel will
\n be our guest speaker. <\/p>\n

Matt will be giving a slide show and discussing the sites and culture
\n of Ghana (the most popular country for American tourists in West Africa),
\n with notes on spending time with the Muslims who live and work there,
\n as well as important sites i.e., visiting a mud mosque and much more.
\n He plans to make us feel a part of the Ghanaian culture and will be bringing
\n some special props to help with our immersion! Matt has been travelling
\n since the age of twelve, when he boarded his family’s boat for five years
\n and sailed around the Pacific including the Philippines, Papua New Guinea,
\n Micronesia, the Solomon Islands, and New Zealand, where he attended high
\n school. He hasn’t stopped since, having visited dozens of countries in
\n Eurasia and living for a number of years in both Hong Kong and Hawaii,
\n where he ran kayak tours and published the guidebook Rainbow Handbook
\n Hawaii. He now lives in New York where he works with Arthur Frommer as
\n Associate Editor of the magazine Budget Travel. Keep an eye out of this
\n Sunday’s (12\/16) travel section of the LA Times and Miami Herald and a
\n few other regional papers – Matt’s account of his trip to Ghana will appear
\n in Frommer’s column! On January 4th, he’s a guest on The Early Today show
\n (and they mean early – 4:30-5:30 AM!) on NBC. <\/p>\n

I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday. See you all soon! <\/p>\n

New York meetings are held at The Wings Theater,<\/i><\/b> 154
\n Christopher Street<\/i><\/b>(btw<\/i><\/b> Greenwich St<\/i><\/b>and<\/i><\/b>
\n Washington St<\/i><\/b>), to the right of Crunch Fitness, in
\n the Archive on the first Saturday of each month at<\/i><\/b> 4 pm<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/b>\n <\/p>\n

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