Feature
Latin America Travel Planner
Now Is the Best Time to Visit Latin America!
Transitions Abroad contributing editor, guidebook author and host of the acclaimed Planeta.com website, Ron Mader gives all the reasons why now is the best time to make a trip to Latin America.
Information Exchange
Travel News to Use
Worldwide Travel Bargains
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Mexico
Festivals in Jalapa by Tom DeMott
Baja California by Car by John Gruppo
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Nepal
Everest on the Cheap by Anna van Os
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Switzerland
Affordable Alpine Retreat by Dinah Cardin
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Worldwide
Overseas Airfare Consolidators by Kent St. John
Back Door Travel
Rick Steves' Picks: The Best and the Worst of Europe
Transitions Abroad Q and A by Kari Bodnarchuk
Travel Abroad
The Independent Traveler
- You've Got Mail!
Communicating From Abroad by Kent St. John
- Crossing Canada
Take a Terrestrial Cruise by Dave Preston
Special Issue
Language Vacations Worldwide
Participant Stories
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Roger L. Edwards, Jr. discovers that life with his host family outside of the classroom in Costa Rica is just as important as what happens inside it.
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After covering a year of Spanish in a month in Guatemala John K. Graham is a believer in total immersion while Amy Hackney Blackwell finds that intensive Language Learning in a medievel German Village is a little like summer camp for adults.
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Christine Bezaire goes to Italy and happily reports that it's never too late to learn a new language.
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Steve Wilson studies Spanish in the north of Spain.
Language Program Directory
Language schools around the world with names, email contacts, fax and other program information to learn a language overseas.
Work Abroad: The Working Traveler
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Latin American Links by Susan Griffith
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Latin America on the Web by Ron Mader
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Crewing a Boat: Travel as Free as the Wind by Julia Bartlett
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Women on Ice: Antarctica is no longer a Men's Club by Lisa Ann Williams
Education Abroad
Program News and Notes
Advertiser Index
Classifieds
Endpage
Why Travel? by Amy Huberman
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From the Managing Editor
I have spent some time in Rio de Janeiro last fall, and I have often wondered during the intervening months why it took me until then to make my first visit to Latin America. I have yet to come up with a satisfactory answer, but I do know that I won't wait another lifetime to go back, especially after preparing this issue. From Ron Mader's comprehensive Latin American travel planner, with country-by-country updates by the editors of the Latin American Travel Advisor, to Susan Griffith's extensive "Latin American Links", on teaching in the region, to Roger Edwards memories of his life-changing homestay in Costa Rica, I've spent the last two months plotting ways to make a return trip as soon as possible!
But it hasn't only been the call of Latin America that has made it so hard to get this issue to the printer. Every time I sat down to edit the Language Program Directory I got distracted. Why couldn't I run off to Tuscany and study Italian? Then I would remember that I had to get these programs into your hands, so you can run off to your own dream destination.
If you find that May/June issue puts ideas into your head, just wait. Our next issue is the Overseas Travel Planner covering travel worldwide — it will show you how to make those dreams real!
— Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter
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Editor and Publisher
Dr. Clay A. Hubbs
Managing Editor
Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter
International Education Editors
Barbara Burn,
William Hoffa,
William Nolting
Contributing Editors
Kari Bodnarchuk (Travel Q & A)
Dianne Brause (Socially Responsible Travel)
Susan Griffith (Work)
Ron Mader (Latin America)
Deborah McLaren (Ecotourism)
William Nolting (Work)
Kent St. John (Independent Travel)
Ted Shoemaker (Europe)
Rick Steves (Budget Travel)
Susan Sygall (Disability Travel)
Kathy Widing (Travel Books)
Business Manager
Lisa Green
Production Manager
Gian Lombardo
Office Manager
Melanie Convery
Printing
Publishers Press
Lebanon Junction, KY
Cover Photo
Ricardo Funari
Photo Location
Brazil
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