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Lynn raised $4000 and biked 3,682 miles from Virginia Beach, VA to Canon Beach, OR with 26 people ages 18 to 25. Bike & Build organizes cross-country trips to benefit affordable housing projects.
I found loads of great seasonal jobs on coolworks.com and applied for and accepted a summer position as the breakfast/lunch cook at Stehekin Valley Ranch in Stehekin, WA, a wilderness recreation area accessible only by air, foot or water. What an adventure!
IMMERSION TRAVEL USA:
The Best & Most Meaningful Volunteering,
Living & Learning ExcursionsDon’t just visit, get involved! With Immersion Travel you’ll go far beyond seeing the sights to interacting with the people you meet and thoroughly exploring your destination here in the USA by:
Helping: Volunteer in great locations with phenomenal people—assist with adaptive skiing or guide trips for special needs adults
Learning: Education, self-help, and alternative lifestyles—quilt, dance, philosophize, or learn to build or play a fiddle
Working: Explore Internships and Short- and Longer-Term Job Opportunities--trade organic farming skills for room & board
Caring: Immersion Travel for Animal Lovers, Caretakers, and Activists—protect loggerhead turtle nesting sites
Playing: Enjoy the Great Outdoors, Sports, and the Arts—experience zero gravity or climb a frozen waterfall
VOLUNTEERING VACATIONS ACROSS AMERICA: IMMERSION TRAVEL USA
(The Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., Publication Date June 1, 2009)
Volunteer Vacations are fabulous immersion travel opportunities. The demand for these trips is doubling and tripling. Recognizing this growing sector, the tourism industry is partnering with nonprofits to provide unusual and competitive volunteer opportunities, or of course, you can create your own volunteer vacation.
HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED A VOLUNTEER VACATION IN THE UNITED STATES?
If so, this is YOUR opportunity to contribute to the next Immersion Travel book:
VOLUNTEERING VACATIONS ACROSS AMERICA: IMMERSION TRAVEL USA is the only comprehensive guide book devoted to Volunteer Vacations solely in the United States.
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I've just read your article—and I loved it.
I'm slotting it for SingleMindedWomen's "Escapes" channel, to appear on Fri 10/17/08.
Thanks again for this wonderful submission,
Josie Brown
Editorial Director - SingleMindedWomen.com
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Monday, September 22, 8:45 p.m. EST LIVE with Art Zuckerman, Host, “Z” Travel & Leisure, WVOX, 1460 AM
Tuesday, September 23, 11:00 a.m. (Pacific) Rod McLaughlin Travel Show, KPAM Portland, Oregon
PRESS & PHOTOS
"This book is a handy starter that will save hours of research for anyone looking to travel where they can learn, volunteer or live like a local. If you can't find something that makes you want to go, check your pulse."
THE WASHINGTON POST, Sunday, October 12, 2008
WHAT A BOOK!
My friend, author and travelista, Sheryl Kayne has come out with a great new book and a terrific website on travel. Immersion Travel USA isn't just about travel, it's about immersing yourself in culture, learning, volunteering, and growing. If you or anyone you know love to travel, check it out! My husband's and his love of Sedona AZ are featured in the book as well as three of my photos of Sedona. It's available online or any bookstore. Stacey Wolf, www.staceywolf.com
CHECK THIS OUT! http://www.supportlibrary.com/nl/users/yakima/mweb/path6-1.html
A new book called Immersion Travel USA: The Best and Most Meaningful Volunteering, Living, and Learning Excursions offers a thoughtful guide to a variety of travel experiences that involve more than a week-long road trip or a few days in a hotel.
The book, by Sheryl Kayne (Countryman Press, $19.95), tells readers how to get involved instead of just visiting the places they are interested in. Chapters are devoted to volunteering, learning, and working, in addition to a section on caring, which describes opportunities for animal-lovers and activists, and playing, which lists ways to enjoy sports and the arts.
The book also includes inspirational first-person narratives, like the story of a woman in her 40s who lost her executive job and decided to move to Alaska, where she got a job as a waitress in Denali National Park to pay her bills. An older couple describes how they sold their house, bought a motor home and went to work for the National Park Service in the Everglades in the winter and Yellowstone in the summer.
Other unusual listings in the book include rustic ranch work at Allen's Diamond Four Ranch in Lander, Wyo., the National Storytelling Festival held annually in October in Jonesborough, Tenn., and the Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project.
Amizade profiled in new book on "best" travel experiences: Amizade's US programs are highlighted in Immersion Travel USA: The Best and Most Meaningful Volunteering, Living, and Learning Excursions by Sheryl Kayne (2009, Countryman Press). The book describes Amizade's service-learning trips to the Navajo Nation (cultural immersion and tutoring), Montana/Yellowstone (historic preservation, habitat restoration), and Washington, DC (homelessness and hunger).
THE COAST NEWS GROUP: RANCHO SANTA FE
Immerse yourself in the latest style of travel by E'Louise Ondash
Some people spend their lives avoiding new situations and change. Travel writer Sheryl Kayne seeks it out.
In fact, the 50-ish, single-mom, travel writer is happiest when she’s outside her comfort zone and she encourages others to come on out and join her.
Kayne, who calls Weston, Conn., home (she’s not there much), tells how to take traveling to a new level in her newly published “Immersion Travel USA: The Best and Most Meaningful Volunteering, Living, and Learning Excursions” (The Countryman Press; $19.95).
Immersion travel, she says, means “taking an active part in where you visit in order to learn about the culture, traditions and characteristics of each particular place.”
“I’ve always loved to travel,” she writes, “but hated being a rather ordinary kind of tourist.”
In other words, forget groups, tour buses, hotel hopping and “buzzing through major sites at the speed of Superwoman.”
Immersion travel is getting up-close-and-personal with the people of an area and their way of life — getting to know what they do, why they do it and how.
“I wanted to see, hear, smell, touch and taste where I went,” she writes of her early travels. “At the time, I didn’t know that what I wanted to experience was immersion travel.”
Don’t worry; Kayne is not talking about living with aborigines in Australia or the Masai in Tanzania. As the title of her book indicates, it is all about the opportunities in this country.
Her first immersion experience unfolded in the summer of 2003.
“It was the first time my (two) daughters and my life were organized such that I could venture off on my own for a seasonal summer position,” Kayne said in a phone interview from Florida, where she is writing a second travel book. “My goals were to drive across the country by myself … and to work somewhere new and different from where I lived.”
After researching via the Internet, Kayne applied for cooking jobs. She’d been a volunteer cook at a kibbutz in Israel and had some experience in catering. To learn baking skills, she practiced with a friend who owned a restaurant. She was hired as a breakfast/lunch cook at a remote ranch in Stehekin, Wash., in the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area in the Cascades National Park Complex.
“It’s only accessible by foot on the Pacific Crest Trail or by pontoon plane or ferry,” Kayne said. “There is only one, nine-mile road from the dock to Stehekin Valley Ranch. This was truly an opportunity to get to know a very small community in a one-of-a-kind place.”
In 2005, the travel writer drove from Connecticut to Alaska and took a job near Denali National Park, where she wrote and performed history presentations for visitors. This past summer, Kayne volunteered with Head Start at the Taos Pueblo in Taos, N.M.
“Immersion Travel USA” relates some of these experiences and tells readers how to research and prepare for such trips. The book also lists the multiple opportunities for those who want immersion via education, outdoor adventure, alternative lifestyles, internships and self help and volunteer programs. Sometimes the experiences are free, some pay an hourly wage or stipend, and some trade services for room and board.
Immersion travel doesn’t have to mean that you drop out for months at a time, either. The experience can be a week, a weekend or just a day.
“Whatever you do,” Kayne said, “immersion travel changes your life and changes the way you travel.”
http://thecoastnews.com/pages/full_story?article-Immerse-yourself-in-the-latest-style-of-travel%20=&page_label=results_content&id=247836-Immerse-yourself-in-the-latest-style-of-travel&widget=push&open=&
http://pierrewolfe.blogspot.com September 21, 3:00 p.m.
Immersive Travel in the USA - Amateur Traveler Episode 154
By Chris Christensen's Blogs(Chris Christensen's Blogs)
The Amateur Traveler talks to author Sheryl Kayne about her new book Immersion Travel USA. She talks about volunteer travel, educational travel and other immersive experiences from experiencing zero G to quilting, from climbing frozen ...
Chris Christensen on the Internet - http://chris2x.blogspot.com/
Immerse yourself in love of travel: The Omaha World-Herald
NEW YORK (AP) — Do you dream about chucking the daily routine to become a park ranger, or getting a job on a cruise ship? Maybe you're more the volunteer type, or you'd like to learn about falconry or try a silent meditation retreat.
A new book called "Immersion Travel USA: The Best and Most Meaningful Volunteering, Living, and Learning Excursions" offers a thoughtful guide to a variety of travel experiences that involve more than a weeklong road trip or a few days in a hotel.
The book, by Sheryl Kayne, tells readers how to get involved instead of just visiting the places they are interested in.
The book also includes inspirational first-person narratives, like the story of a woman in her 40s who lost her executive job and decided to move to Alaska, where she got a job as a waitress in Denali National Park to pay her bills. An older couple describes how they sold their house, bought a motor home and went to work for the National Park Service in the Everglades in the winter and Yellowstone in the summer.
Saturday, August 23, 2008: Travel Bug, Santa Fe, New Mexico
