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10-08-2007, 08:41 PM
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Hi, everyone.
I've lurked for a long time and learned a ton from the forums, and I got on here and saw the 'lurkers come forth' topic and suddenly all the guilt and cowardly feelings I had been repressing surged to the surface, leaving me scrambling for the new topic button.
I'm Emma, and I'm from the San Francisco bay area, and I've never been out of the country in my 22 years (all this will change on Sunday, when I fly out for a week). This trip is for work and so really structured, but I'm planning a trip for September next year, hopefully two weeks, and thinking UK/France right now. I'd love to go longer but my job is awesome and I like doing it, and also my girlfriend goes back to school at the end of September.
We want to backpack and hostel it, and am really interested in the more backwater towns, with weird and unique stuff to discover in them. I grew up in a town of 800 people, so dinky towns have a special place in my heart.
I do art and write and make shit up, professionally, and ... yeah, I'm looking forward to traveling when I can, keeping a travel sketchbook, whatever.
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10-08-2007, 08:48 PM
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Hey Emma! Glad you decided to introduce yourself. Good luck with the trip and everything, and welcome!
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10-08-2007, 08:52 PM
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always trippin'
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Welcome to the boards, Emma! 
Where are you heading this weekend?
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10-08-2007, 09:47 PM
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TPunk Emeritus
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Hey Emma, welcome to the boards 
You know, it just so happens that I'm moving over to the San Fran Bay Area at the start of next year.
...I sense some sort of Bay Area meet up happening early in the new year 
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10-08-2007, 10:04 PM
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Tpunk Senior Moderators
Join Date: May 2006
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Yep! Looks like Tpunk is heading to the West Coast. We will be in San Diego in the late spring. Beer time!!
Welcome to Tpunk. Continue to pick our brains and find the perfect trip for next year. And do tell us where you are heading to on Sunday.
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10-08-2007, 11:40 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spacedog
I got on here and saw the 'lurkers come forth' topic and suddenly all the guilt and cowardly feelings I had been repressing surged to the surface, leaving me scrambling for the new topic button.
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ahh, so the guilt trip worked. excellent... hey welcome!
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10-09-2007, 12:13 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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howdy,
luckily we dig you art types :-P
and good luck on your travels
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Last edited by c0urt; 10-09-2007 at 12:17 AM.
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10-09-2007, 02:43 AM
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Welcome!! Have fun on your trip.
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I have been to: Canada, USA, Iceland, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Germany, Sardinia, Switzerland, China, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Morocco.
Do to list: [color=blue][color=black] Australia, New Zealand, Austria India and Bolivia.
[color=blue][i][font=Verdana][color=black]"I'm just another stranger lookin' for the promised land"
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10-09-2007, 02:52 AM
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Tpunk Senior Moderators
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Hey Emma, muahaha nothing like a guilt trip to get people posting!
It's nice to have you aboard.
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10-09-2007, 04:55 AM
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call me Condi!
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Hello and welcome! I promise you do get so much more out of posting and getting to know people than just lurking - well done! And enjoy your trip next week. Be sure to write us about it.
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"I set out alone, finding no companion to cheer the way with friendly intercourse, and no party of travellers with whom to associate myself. Swayed by an overmastering impulse within me, and a long-cherished desire to visit those glorious sanctuaries, I resolved to quit all my friends and tear myself away from my home."
---Ibn Battuta, CE 1325
Latest travel crushes - Arizona, Morocco, The Baltic States, Tunisia, Portugal, Mexico
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10-09-2007, 06:03 AM
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hey, don't feel like you gotta make excuses for your trip being work-related and structured! I'm stuck here in Philly working, begging them to send me overseas! so welcome aboard to the ...er...boards...right.
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10-09-2007, 06:06 PM
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Rabidly Xenophilic
Join Date: May 2007
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Welcome! I hope you'll post some of your sketches once you get back from your trip
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10-09-2007, 06:29 PM
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Welcome to the family!!
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10-10-2007, 02:40 PM
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welcome 
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11-25-2007, 06:53 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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Thanks, everyone! I guess this is a super-delayed 'thank you', but things got busy once I got back. It was amazing, seeing actual castles and driving all over the country... hiking, falling in water (I'm really good at that), being freezing, sleeping on the bus... now I want more!
My next trip isn't quite so spectacular, but I'm planning a roadtrip from the bay area up to Olympic Nat'l Park and Vancouver when my gf gets her spring break. I'm totally geeking out over the seastacks. Want to go up and draw them.
Anyway... thanks you guys! An east bay meetup would be awesome, even if I'm a total noob.
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11-28-2007, 12:57 AM
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welcome
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