Your Very Next Step newsletter for May 2011

Here’s what you’ll find in this issue:
*** Frequent-Flyer Tips for Battling Jet Lag
*** Samoa to Go Back to the Future, Shift Date Line
*** Automatic for the People
*** National Trails Day – SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2011
*** Hike Weekend Experience – Tiadaghton State Forest
*** Free Wi-Fi Lands at D.C. Airports
*** The best National Park lodges:
*** Glasses-free 3D TVs may be coming to airlines
*** Airline turns to kung fu to thwart unruly fliers
*** Delta Enables Customers to Track Checked Bags
*** The Real Cost of Airline Travel Remains a Mystery, for Now
*** Holidays You Might Not Know About
*** The 57th Edition of the Puccini Opera Festival, Torre del Lago, Lucca, Italy – July and August 2011
*** Best and cheapest train trips
*** How to Cross Streams and Rivers
*** Trail volunteer opportunities:
*** Volunteer Naturalist, Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District, Monterey, CA
*** Volunteer Opportunity, Dakota Prairie National Grasslands, North Country National Scenic Trail, North Dakota
*** National Rail-Trail of the month: Iowa's Wabash Trace Nature Trail
*** Travel/Adventure/Outdoors/Conservation employment opportunities

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Your Very Next Step newsletter for March 2011

*** In this issue:
*** Travel news
*** 10 best U.S. airport restaurants
*** Frazil ice
*** 10 Things Hotels Won’t Tell You
*** Gorman Chairback Lodge & Cabins
*** Virgin Fires Flight Attendant After He Puts a Toddler In An Overhead Compartment
*** 8 Delicious Drinks – Bars In The Spanish Culture
*** What are your favorite local alcoholic favorites?
*** Jägertee:
*** Check in then check out these cool hotel lobbies
*** Gear Explained: Sleeping Bags
*** Embark on an Epic Train Journey through Africa
*** FlightView lets you track the progress of any flight in the U.S
*** FlightView iTunes Playlists
*** Overnight Paddling Escapes
*** Indian Market, Navajo Rug Auction, Archaeological Tours
*** National Train Day!
*** If the government shuts down, can government shut down access to public lands?
*** Virginia Summer Adventure Camps:
*** Trail volunteer opportunities:
** Parks Volunteer Coordinator, Clallam County Parks, Port Angeles, WA
** Billy Goat Trail Steward Volunteers, C&O Canal National Historic Park, Potomac, MD
** Camp Host Volunteer, Dungeness and Salt Creek County Parks, Clallam County Parks, Port Angeles, WA
** Volunteer opportunities at Mission Trails Regional Park
** Adopt-a-Trail (AAT), Great Smoky Mountains National Park
*** Rail Trail of the Month – Illinois' Fox River Trail
*** Travel/Adventure/Outdoors/Conservation employment opportunities:
1.) Forestry Technician (Smokejumper),Bureau of Land Management, US Department of the Interior, Boise, ID
2.) Non-Game Bat Technician, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Lander, WY
3.) Public Relations Coordinator, JanSport, San Leandro, California
4.) Outdoor Education Teacher, GREEN CHIMNEY’S SCHOOL, GREEN CHIMNEYS CHILDREN’S SERVICE, INC., Brewster, NY
5.) Sales Rep or Distributor for fishing lures, Angler's Ammo, Jacksonville, FL
6.) Sport Fishing Guides, Kulik Lodge, Katmai National Park, AK
7.) Mountain Man Interpreter, American West Heritage Center, Wellsville, UT
8.) Park Guide, GS-0090-04, Fort Laramie NHS, Ft. Laramie, WY
9.) Seabird Monitoring Volunteer, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, AK
…and much more…and it’s all FREE!!!

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Your Very Next Step newsletter for January 2011

*** Travel news
*** January is festival time:
*** Rail Trail of the Month – New Jersey's Sussex Branch Trail
*** Trail and Outdoors Volunteer opportunities:
*** Travel, Outdoor and Adventure Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities

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Your Very Next Step newsletter for December 2010

This issue is being sent to you from Monterey, California.

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Your Very Next Step newsletter for November 2010

Check out the jobs in this issue!

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Your Very Next Step newsletter for October 2010

*** In this issue:
*** Special Groupon Offer: Join the Appalachian Mountain Club
*** Acela vs. Northeast Regional
*** Amtrak of the future
*** Find forests and parks near you!
*** Bedbug Threat Continues to Bother Travelers
*** Travel News
*** Southwest-AirTran deal
*** Wi-Fi Taking Off for Some Airlines
*** New Social Media Application to Raise Awareness of European Rail Travel
Link to article on m-Travel.com:
*** American announces it is reducing service to San Juan:
*** AirTran beefs up P.R. flights, adds Key West service
*** 2010 October Beer Festivals around the world
*** October is festival time:
Relentless Freeze Festival
Richmond Folk Festival
Wellfleet OysterFest
Festival of Cartoon Art
*** YVNS Sport Ned Has Never Heard Of: CYCLE MESSENGER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
*** NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE WEEK
*** Rail Trail of the Month – Idaho's Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes and Route of the Hiawatha
*** Trail and Outdoors Volunteer opportunities:
Rocky Top Crew in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
Keystone Trail Association, Pennsylvania
*** Travel, Outdoor and Adventure Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities
1.) 2011 TRAIL CREW (2 positions), Thumb’s Cove State Marine Park, Caines Head State Recreation Area, and Decision Point Marine Park, RESURRECTION BAY AND WESTERN PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, Alaska
2.) 2011 TRAIL CREW (6 positions), KACHEMAK BAY STATE PARK, park is only accessible by boat or airplane from Homer, Alaska
3.) Field Team Leadership Program, Northwest Service Academy, Mt. Adams Center, Trout Lake, WA
4.) Lift Operator, Sunday River Ski Resort, Newry, ME
5.) Relief Captain / Cook / Apprentice – 2011, Schooner Isaac H. Evans, Rockland, ME
6.) Environmental Educators, Field Team Leaders, and Field Team Members (Summer, Winter, Fall, and Spring), Maine Conservation Corps (MCC), Work is work is throughout the state of Maine

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Your Very Next Step newsletter for September 2010

In this issue:
*** Travel News
*** September is National Wilderness Month
*** National Public lands day
*** YVNS Sport Ned Has Never Heard Of: World Sauna Championships
*** Cold facts about hypothermia
*** NH Heritage Trail Program
*** Rail trail of the month – New Hampshire's Sugar River Trail
*** No-bake Brownies
*** Travel, Outdoor and Adventure Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities
1.) Communications Department Internship, Visit Bucks County, Bensalem, PA
2.) Marketing Assistant, Vancouver USA Regional Tourism Office, Vancouver, Washington
3.) Regional Development Manager, Outward Bound, Minneapolis, Minnesota
4.) Deconstruction Supervisor, Center for Ecological Technology, Northampton, MA
5.) Executive Director, Wolf Haven International, Tenino, WA
6.) Director of Education, Plains Conservation Center, Aurora, Colorado
7.) Executive Director, Pacific Marine Mammal Center, Laguna Beach, California
8.) French Editor, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
9.) Director of Education, Plains Conservation Center, Aurora, Colorado
10.) Executive Director, US Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association, Colorado Springs, Colorado
11.) Senior Foundation Relations Manager, Wilderness Society, San Francisco, California
…and more

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Your Very Next Step newsletter for August 2010

*** Travel, Outdoor and Adventure Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities
1.) Public Relations Manager, Longboat Key Club & Resort, Longboat Key, FL
2.) Trail Staff, Wilderness Inquiry, various locations
3.) Boat captain, 24' skiff, Virginia Tech, various, Texas to Georgia, including Cocodrie, Gra
4.) Director, Strategic Programs and Enterprise Trustees of Reservations Ipswich, Massachusetts
5.) Associate Travel Editor, Southern Living magazine, Time Inc., Birmingham, AL
6.) Travel Agency Marketing Director, La Macchia Enterprises (The enterprise includes The Mark Travel Corporation, Trisept Solutions, Vax VacationAccess and Funjet Vacations), Milwaukee, WI
7.) Volunteer Opportunity – Communications Intern, Wildlife Alliance, Washington, DC 8.) Volunteer, Archaeology Program, Gunston Hall, Mason Neck, VA
9.) Volunteer Opportunities, Whale Interpretive Centre, Johnstone Strait Killer Whale Interpretive Centre Society (JSKWICS), Telegraph Cove, British Columbia
10.) Herring Count Volunteer, Harwich Conservation Trust, Harwich, Mass.
11.) Vice President of Philanthropy, Mass Audubon, Lincoln, MA
12.) Internal Communications Manager, REI, Kent, Washington, USA
13.) Public Relations Internships, Virginia Tourism Corporation, Richmond, VA
14.) Director of Marketing and Communications, Irvine Nature Center, Owings Mills, Maryland
15.) Volunteer in Nepal, The Mountain Volunteer, Kathmandu, Nepal

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Your Very Next Step newsletter for May 2010

“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
— Chinese proverb

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Your Very Next Step newsletter for March 2010

The next adventure begins with your very next step.

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