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*** In this issue:
*** Travel News
*** YVNS “Sport You Must Try” for April/May
*** What’s the most profitable airline in America?
*** What do children say about the ocean?
*** What stupid things do people say to travel agents?
*** Ned visits Abu Dhabi
*** Ned visits India
*** What does a red light mean in India?
*** What do you do with limes and peppers? Why, ward off evil spirits, of course.
*** How do you make a chickoo shake?
*** What’s the only place in Pune to get mawa cake and Shrewsbury biscuits?
*** See Seva Allu Puri, a Bombay specialty, assembled right before your eyes (yes, Ned eats it).
*** The lake with the longest name is apparently spelled wrong on Massachusetts road signs. Who knew?
*** Travel, Outdoor and Adventure Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities   more »

Adventure begins with the very next step.   more »

Your next adventure begins with The Very Next Step.   more »

*** In this issue:
*** Travel News
*** Thinking of visiting the Nation's capital for the Inauguration?
*** World premiere of "Journey to Mecca"
*** YVNS recipe of the month: Malay Bagadils
*** Ice Queen Gwen Saunders and those Ice Festivals
*** Sarah Armstrong reports from Sierra Leone
*** YVNS “Sport You Must Try” for January: Winter surfing in New England
*** Best Job in the World
*** Historic Hagerstown?
*** Travel/Outdoors and Adventure jobs (a dozen of them at least)
1.) Professional Ski Patroller, Heavenly Mountain Resort, Vail Resorts Management Company, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2.) TV 8 Intern / Production Assistant, Vail Mountain, Vail, CO
3.) Aircraft Electrical Design Engineer, GoGo, Aircell, Itasca, IL
4.) Director of Public Relations, Terranea Resort, Destination Hotels & Resorts, Lowe Hospitality Group, Rancho Palos Verdes, California
5.) Park Guide, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, National Park Service, Department Of The Interior, Organ Pipe National Monument, AZ
6.) International Tourism Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, Novi Pazar, Serbia
7.) RETAIL STORE HOURLY JOBS, Recreational Equipment, Inc., (REI), Nationwide
8.) Travel Photographer, Frommer's Travel Guides, Hoboken, NJ
9.) Recreation Spec. (Outdoor/Community Activities), United States Coast Guard, Department Of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Training Center -
Yorktown, Comptroller and Personnel Support Division, Comptroller
Branch, MWR Section, Yorktown, VA
10.) Waiters/Waitresses, Seabourn Cruise Lines, Various
11.) Coordinator, Martu Ranger Program (southern zone), Western Desert Lands
Aboriginal Corporation, Jigalong, Western Australia
12.) SUPERVISORY OUTDOOR RECREATION PLANNER, BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, Department Of The Interior, Tiber Dam, MT
…and that aforementioned best job in the world…   more »

What international naval officers want most when they get home.

Gwen Saunders' silent moment.

This month's sport Ned has never heard of: Kabaddi

Upcoming Ice Festivals.

Freedom on the Great Lakes

16 job opportunities!

Because your next adventure beings with your very next step.   more »

The next issue of "Your Very Next Step" newsletter puts travel,
excitement and adventure in its place. Gwen Saunders shares a moment of
wonderment as she stood amongst the quiet of Crete at midnight on a
starry Christmas Eve, listenong to the soft sounds of the sheep and
goats, and smelling the olive wood fires, transporting her back to a
biblical time and place.

You'll want to read it at www.yourverynextstep.com. Sign up for the
free newsletter at yourverynextstep-subscribe@topica.com.

And we very much want to here about your profound and memorable moments
of solitude to share in the next issue, due out this week. Send your
experience to Ned at lundquist989@cs.com today so he can include it in
Thursday's issue.

Also, for you job seekers, each issue of YVNS has
outdoor/travel/adventure jobs. Hey, you never know.

Ned
www.yourverynextstep.com

*** In this issue:
*** Ned celebrates Freedom in Milwaukee
*** Zipper Maintenance and guaranteed repairs
*** Hot Malasadas – an update
*** Travel News
*** YVNS “Sport You Must Try” for November: Noodling
*** My Adventure: And I’m Walking in the Lion’s Den…..
*** Thru-hike speed record on the A.T.
*** Blaze orange is not just for hunters
*** Travel, Outdoor and Adventure Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities   more »

Your adventure begins with the Very Next Step!   more »

In this issue, we read about some excellent adventures, some upcoming harvest festivals, saving West Virginia from obesity, reach about volunteer opportunities and some paying jobs that get you out of the office, and learn about the fickle-flying airline industry. And much, much more!   more »

What are you bringing?   more »

Travel and adventure employment opportunities, plus Ned and Tom's Wyoming advnture   more »

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
- G. K. Chesterton   more »

Who can resist hot, fried, sugary dough?   more »

*** In this issue:

*** Travel News
*** Bill Ryerson’s tips from traveling
*** Where you stand on this issue depends on where you sit
*** Larry Bearfield in Carlisle, mass., U.S.A., interviews Hwee Suan Ong about diving in Fujirah
*** Hwee Suan Ong in Dubai asks Larry Bearfiled about the Powwow in Montana.
*** Travel, Outdoor and Adventure Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities
…and much more…and it’s all FREE!!!   more »

*** In this issue:

*** Travel News
*** Ned Lundquist interviews Hwee Suan Ong about camping in Oman
*** Lufthansa responds…twice.
*** Mike Klein in search of the perfect brew, and finds (here’s the shocker) that it is right under his nose.
*** Philip D. Spiess III cooked up this “Ode to the Order of the Arrow” on short order.
*** Travel, Outdoor and Adventure Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities   more »

“Your Very Next Step” newsletter, published by Ned Lundquist, is a cooperative community, and everyone is invited, no…encouraged, no…urged to participate.   more »

“I am—really am—an extremist, one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this world falls off into the depths of another. That’s the way I like it.”
- Edward Abbey   more »

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