USA 98
Arrival: October, 12, New York City
Departure: November, 9, New York City

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Collateral reports:
Mago(USA) - Stuart(Boston) - Jesse(NY) - Sunshine(NY) - Annette(SF)
- 6rady, Jon, Megan(PDX) - Mari(NY) - report-like e-mail

Lenara

Ivana

German 
 
Martin Goebel 

The Hosts: 
people we'll meet 

NY 

Cibele

Elaine

 

Ranjit

Sunshine

 

MaryMHa

Ale

 

Jesse  Reklaw

Mari

Washington,DC 
 
Jonathan 

Boston 
Stuart Cody 
Patricia Fossati 

Omaha 
  
Ed & friends 

Flagstaff 
 
Chris Johnson 

Portland 
 
Jon Van Oast 

San Francisco 

Annette

Issac Roth

Cupertino 
Bill Coderre 
Lisa Chabot 
 
 

NY oct 12-18 
We'll stay with Cibele, she lives in the "latino" part of Harlem. We plan to meet Ranjit, Marymha and Sunshine. We'll also meet Elaine, a brazilian friend who's living in NY. Ale and Mari won't be able to go with us, their visas arrived too late.  

Boston Oct 15 
We now have two hosts in Boston, Patricia Fossati and Stuart Cody. I'll stay there for a day, visit some universities and see the gorgeous autumn scene.  

Washington, DC Oct 14  
We'll probably stay in Washington for only one day. Jonathan is our host there. He is a transplantee from Ohio, but I hope he can give us the standard tour, including the White House and FBI. (X-philes MUST go there, musn't we? ;)  

Omaha Oct 20-22  
We couldn't miss Ed's home town, when we'll finally get to know all the places and people we know about by reading his journal and sito ventures pages. We'll also have the oportunity to grasp some of "normal, small-town" America.  

Flagstaff, Arizona Oct 23-26  
We have a very good friend living there. He's been in Brazil two years ago and is very excited about us coming up. Chris Johnson says we can stay there and he would like to take us to the Grand Canyon.  

San Francisco Oct 27-29  
Our stay in San Francisco will be split in two. We'll spend 3 days there before going to Portland. Annette will be our host during that time. Issac is expected to arrive only on November 4.  

Portland Oct 30 - Nov 4  
We'll spend Halloween in Portland. Ed will join us there and later come down to SF. We'll meet Jon Van Oast and maybe Jeff Scott.  

San Francisco Nov 4-8  
We'll go back to SF, this time carrying Ed with us. :)  

Cupertino ?  
Bill Coderre lives there, and he and Lisa Chabot suggested lots of cool places for us to visit.  

Dreamed extras:  

The dreamed extras are becoming true :) At least the "geek tourism" proved to be a must! Bill works at Apple Computer and will take us there. Issac has some friends at Macromedia, Excite and Oracle. Ed knows (knew?) somebody at Wired Magazine. Annette works at Construct and according to undisclosed fonts "hangs out with all the phreaks in the 'gulch'".  

1. California easy-ride w/ educational twist - that would be like  renting a car and visiting beaches and universities, hoping I can be soon studying and surfing in the USA :)  

2. Silicon Valley Geek Tour - If we have some silicon valley people in the list they could show us hi tech corporations and take us to geek places. A whole new venture! Geek tourism!  
  
  
 

After spending wonderful 15 days last year traveling the East Coast of the USA and meeting several amazing Sitoid people (see details at: http://www.sito.org/~ed/east97) I'm COMING BACK!  

This time, I hope to spend as much as 30 days traveling - visiting New York City (last time I stayed there for only 24 hours), Boston, Omaha, Flagstaff, the Grand Canyon and the West Coast. (Wow! A lot of places :)  

During that time, the main goals of the trip will be: 
1. meeting friends 
2. having fun 
3. visiting universities to help me choose my future place of study. 

I'll be traveling with my sister Ivana and Ed will join us during the West Coast part. We welcome other travel companions.  

If you want to meet with us somewhere during the journey, please tell. Our itinerary is very flexible, we'll probably go again for a train pass which is the cheapest way of transportation and allow unlimited traveling (it of course takes a little longer, but I have more time than money to spare... ;) 

If you want to help us there are many ways to do it: 

- providing food and shelter for two nice brazilian girls and an Omaha bum ;)  

- if you study/work/whatever in an university that has a doctoral program in areas as arts/communication/computer science, or actually the merge of those three, I would love to visit it. I'm graduating till the end of 98 with a thesis about Sito and would like to continue my studies in a related field. 

 - giving travel advice, taking us to nice places you know, and whatever your creative minds come up with!  
 

lenara@verle.com 

 ivana@verle.com 

 ed@sito.org 

  
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