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Welcome to WhereInTheWorldAreYou.com – The ultimate Travel Guide for those of us who yearn for independent travel with an “insider’s” advantage.
If you are tired of cookie-cutter travel resources that simply parrot the official Chamber of Commerce tourist dribble, welcome home.
WhereInTheWorldAreYou.com is the premier travel guide that focuses solely on the needs of independent travellers, backpackers and hikers who live to stray off the beaten path and discover the real sights and experiences of Columbia and Central America that only natives know.
Where to eat; where to stay; where to avoid.
Almost any travel site can dish out the daily list of 5-star hotels and tourist-trap restaurants. But...
- What if you could get the real scoop from people who live and work in Columbia and Central America?
- What about that little café that locals know has the best fish in town?
- What if you could see an honest comparison of independent vs. branded hotels and end up in a little cottage where you are treated like a visiting cousin instead of a visiting ATM card?
The people who belong to WhereInTheWorldAreYou.com know all about that and more. We're not staffed by travel agents. In fact, we're not really “staffed” at all. Nearly all of the people who provide insider-only independent travel tips, tricks and news are
- travellers with first hand experience
- local residents
- ex-pats who have decided to settle
- business owners who know the country inside out.
Columbia and Central America are teaming with places that the average tourist never sees. There are people living here that will gladly go far out of their way to make your vacation unforgettable. Sadly, you most likely will never encounter any of them unless you know where to look.
How do you learn what insiders know when you've never visited?
Imagine how rewarding your next vacation would be if you could experience it through the eyes, ears and hearts of people who make your vacation destination their home! Think about how easy it would be to lay out your own independent travel itinerary if you could plan it with the help of knowledgeable insiders who aren't drawing a paycheck in return for being helpful and friendly – they're doing it because they love to!
You know how bad it can be…
Travel is a nearly a $40-billion business and there are a lot of businesses and people standing in line to get their share of your cash. Travel agents, airlines, hotels, tour guides, on-line booking sites. They all have their hand in your pocket and, honestly, far too many of them don’t care if you get the best travel deal or not.
Your travel agent may have visited Columbia or other Central American locations on a whirlwind “familiarization” trip, sponsored by the big hotels and tourist spots. But you can bet that he or she never strayed even 1 block from the pre-planned route that they were herded through on their 24-hour visit. Their itinerary included all of the locations that pay commissions to agents who send tourists. Book your travel through one of them and what do you think your itinerary will look like?
But wait, you’re an independent social traveler, lap-packer, right? You already know the travel agent game. That’s why you strike out on your own, blaze your own trail, and laugh at the tourists in those loud tour buses.
But what you probably do not know is that there is another level of independent travel that’s under deep cover. The people who truly know what the insiders know, even if they have never set foot in the country before, laugh at you like you laugh at the “groupies.”
Independence, the life of a lap-packer...
I’m taking about people like “Wolf”
Wolf and I are great friends. I’ve never met him. In fact, no one I know has ever met him. Yet he is so full of stories, knows so many things about the region and has slept, eaten and played in places most tourists couldn’t find even by accident. You can’t be as well-traveled as Wolf is and not know everyone, yet no one I know has had the pleasure.
Wolf, we think, comes from the “States” but others think he may be European. Crushed under social responsibility, family obligations, and staggering his way through mid-life crisis, he disappeared one day. Poof! Just like that. He walked away from his kids, businesses, friends and family and set off for Central America for a bit of an “adventure” as he is so fond of saying.
Maybe he was the man that singer/songwriter Paul Simon was thinking of…
A man walks down the street
It’s a street in a strange world
Maybe it’s the Third World
Maybe it’s his first time around
He doesn’t speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! and Hallelujah!
-- Paul Simon “You Can Call Me Al”
Arriving in Columbia with nothing but the desire to be free, Wolf quickly learned that the world is a friendlier place if you try to speak the language of the people whose hospitality you are seeking. Wolf learned the language. He discovered that his money went further if he ate the food that the locals ate in the cafes and out-of-the way places where the locals ate. He dined well.
Wolf backpacked throughout Central America meeting the locals as well as the other “ex-pats” who called Central America home. He saw many wondrous things. He became a social traveler is the truest sense. Time passed and Wolf became one with his environment. He began writing about his travels and he “surfaced” on some of the local web sites where locals and ex-pats gather to discuss current events and the fine art of living and playing in Central America.
Soon, others like Wolf began to show up and lend their stories and experiences to the community. Then others followed. And, as time passed, there developed an on-line community of people who have amassed an amazing amount of knowledge about living and traveling in Colombia and Central America; knowledge that no visitor could possibly obtain independently. Knowledge that normally only comes from hiking the trails, walking the back streets and coming face-to-face with the locals.
Maybe you’re a lot like Wolf. Maybe you’re tired of the rat race. Perhaps it is time for you to escape your own mid-life crisis, if only for a week or a month. Come to a place where you’ll already have friends and know where to go, where to stay and where to eat, before you even pack your bags and begin your journey.
That’s what it’s like when you join WhereInTheWorldAreYou.com. You’ll never be a stranger in a strange land. You’ll be one of us; a local; a friend. Join now and experience what it’s like to call Wolf a friend even though you may never meet him. You may never even talk to him. He may never even respond to one of your messages. But others will because the spirit of Wolf lives inside of each of us who, in addition to calling Columbia and Central America home, call WhereInTheWorldAreYou.com home as well.
Become a member right now. We’re waiting to welcome you home.
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