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***Multiple Image Uploads - Upgrades ***Sending Mad Love to our Members ***TrekShare Administrators Paid in Whiskey ***Crashing a Wedding in Laos - a short story
The TrekShare compounds in NYC and St. Paul are working at a feverish pace to improve services for the travel community. Multiple image uploads, high-resolution storage, and funky new video are just the tip of the iceberg.
The 2 minds behind TrekShare have quit their jobs and in order to pay for health insurance it is essential that those of you that love our creation flip us a paltry $7.95 for a year membership. Do it today and receive a year of good travel karma.
***Multiple Image Uploads***
We have added a kick ass new interface for uploading pictures in bulk. It is 10 times better than the standard one image at a time interface. Here are the improvements.
1. Upload 3 images at a time 2. Interface now allows you to write the caption after the image is uploaded. This means that the image is right before your eyes when you are writing the caption. 3. Improved navigation for fast uploading. Now you can choose where you want to be redirected to after you upload a batch.
***Mad Love to our members***
TrekShare sends props to the Amsterdam connection. Member Chwb’s Americana photos gets the road trippin’ blood flowing.
Theworld6 has been travelling on and off in different parts of the world since 1992. Since then he’s been to Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia. He’s currently working in Singapore, where he works as a Videographer for people like Discovery, NBC, CBS, RTL, and National Geographic. We’d love to hear your feedback on TrekTV Japan which is now live.
I’m psyched to see another bubbly Irish lass on the site. Member Ciara has been getting her groove on while trekking through Thailand and Australia.
Fondest wishes to Dominic and Ann for passing their Egyptian nuptials.
TrekMember Kawong is promoting the tail off of TrekShare by utilizing the TrekVite on her current Thailand trip.
Spoonz has attained his goal of being the #1 TrekShare member with a slew of great photos and stories about eating puppy dogs in Asia. Note: TrekTips need to be entered for a destination in order for us to feature photography. If you would like to see your photos featured on the mainpage please drop joseph@trekshare.com Trekshare a note.
Good Reading! Member Filmerp has composed 16 brilliant travelogues from his time in South East Asia.
A recommendation was given to me by Femmefatal that I would like to extend to all of us who have been to, currently in, or plan on visiting Thailand. Get a bit more sublime and check out The Legend of Suriyothai.
Special thanks to baby sister Val for spotting me a computer for the past month. Val just returned from New Zealand and Vanuatu on a Peace Corps goods relieve mission.
Another special hello to Kaylee who is currently uploading photos from a 10-day trek through some of Guatemala and Mexico’s Maya sites and museums.
***TrekShare Administrators Paid in Whiskey***
Very simple premise. If you are looking for experience and have a bit of time to donate to the cause please drop joseph@trekshare.com">Trekshare a note. NYC applicants get preferential treatment.
***Crashing a Wedding in Laos***
Any editor that can make sense of the piece wins a http://www.trekshare.com/index.cfm?p1=47 TrekT-Shirt.The following are excerpts from Joseph’s TrekPage.
"Any reasonable person would think it slightly off-color to crash a wedding. When that wedding happens to be in Laos who is to say if it’s inappropriate or not? Whom am I kidding? I was well aware of the potential drawbacks of dropping in on an event that I was clearly not invited. It wouldn’t be the first time leering eyes would be cast upon me as I non chalantly pressed my way up to the buffet table."
...."In the background we watched the nucleus of the party dance. Thankfully there are no traditions of the Marquerena or chicken dance in Laos. This is one of the things I’m happiest about. Tonight they danced the Lamvong. It’s a combination folk dance and courting ritual. Girls dance in place with short, rhythmic steps, while boys weave circles around them; no one touches. The faces of the dancers are completely expressionless, but their arms and hands wave in complicated patterns expressive of love and devotion. Frankly, unless you are Laotian, you will end up looking like a queen doing this jig."
..."Two more reasons to keep your chin low. Let’s just say that walking into a communist country like a god damn red white and blue peacock perpetuates certain stereotypes that affect our relationships with other countries. The second reason is simpler. People taller than the mean height of 5’3" will ultimately take a roof of the house to the noggin sometime during their stay in this vertically challenged land."
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