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 »

This is the "Early Edition"   more »

Your next adventure begins with "Your Very Next Step!"   more »

In this issue: *** Backpacking Lightweight: *** What’s the most unusual thing you’ve encountered on the trail? *** Tips for travel *** Sports to try in 2008 *** Travel News *** Outdoors Enthusiasts are an economic force *** Outdoor/travel/adventure jobs *** Slavic Switzerland?   more »

This issue of “Your Very Next Step” Newsletter is being transmitted to you from “the Garden Isle,” Kauai, Hawaii.   more »

A journey starts with a single step.   more »

Experience the planet!   more »