BoomerScape, Inc. Partners
BoomerScape, Inc. has carefully selected a variety of strategic partners and friends from around the world that provide content, unique articles, databases and other materials to enrich the BoomerScaper experience.
Corporate Partners
Avalon Travel Publishing
www.moon.com
www.livingabroadin.com
Avalon Travel Publishing (ATP) was formed in 1999 with the merger of three independent travel publishers—Moon Publications (established 1973), John Muir Publications (established 1973), and Foghorn Press (established 1982)—creating the largest independent travel publisher based in the ATP publishes several major travel guidebook series, including Rick Steves, Moon Handbooks, Moon Metro, Moon Outdoors, Moon Living Abroad, Road Trip USA , and The Dog Lover’s Companion, as well as individual travel titles.
ATP is based in the Emeryville, California office of Avalon Publishing Group, Inc., an independent publishing company that also has an office in New York City .
GoAbroad.com
www.goabroad.com
GoAbroad.com is committed to providing the most comprehensive international education and alternative travel databases. GoAbroad.com utilizes data driven programming to provide the most up-to-date and accurate information. In addition to some of the largest directories of their kind on the internet, GoAbroad.com provides extensive additional information within its dynamically constructed travel guides, currency converter, and embassy directories. GoAbroad.com is dedicated to providing this information in a clean and less-commercial format. Advertising space is limited and strategically placed for the most cohesive design. GoAbroad.com is a very user-friendly site, graphics are developed with load time as a priority, search directories and content are created as the market demands.
Important Contributors
Josh Berman
Josh Berman is a freelance writer and author of Moon Handbooks Belize and Nicaragua , as well as Living Abroad in Nicaragua . Josh has spent much of the last ten years living, working and traveling throughout the world, and especially Nicaragua , where he has been a peace corps volunteer and frequent trip leader. Josh’s sites are:
www.gotonicaragua.com
www.joshuaberman.net
www.blog.joshuaberman.net
Erin Van Rheenen
Erin is an accomplished writer and author ofLiving Abroad in Costa Rica. When she was three years old, Erin Van Rheenen's parents moved the family from Portland , Oregon , to Lagos, Nigeria . This two-year stint would be the first of Erin 's many extended stays outside of her home country. Since then she has lived in Oaxaca (Mexico), Guatemala , Ireland , Quito (Ecuador), and Costa Rica .
Erin earned aB.A. in Latin American Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz , an M.A. in Fiction Writing and English Literature from the City University of New York, and a certificate of advanced Spanish proficiency from Universidad Catolica in Quito . She has published essays and stories in venues such as Fiction, The Sun and the Los Angeles Times, and her novel, The Gospel of Gone, won the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society prize for best new novel. She has taught writing at City College of New York and in the San Francisco County Jail. Currently she spends much of her time in San Francisco and Costa Rica .
Erin ’s website is www.livingabroadincostarica.com
Ginnie Bedggood
Ginnie has been living in the Dominican Republic for some 15 years. When she reached retirement age she reinvented herself as an author.
The result is:
Quisqueya: Mad Dogs and English Couple (Paperback)
http://www.dominicanbookshop.com/Quisqueya_Mad_Dogs_and_English_Couple_p/978-1904502524.htm
as well as a number of articles, all of which can be found on her website.
Ginnie Bedggood - book author, writer, expat Dominican Republic
http://www.ginniebedggood.com/index.html
Joe Simonetta
Before BoomerScaping to Ecuador , the multi-talented Joe Simonetta has had diverse life experiences encompassing many fields. He studied architecture at the University of Southern California and holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Colorado . He also holds a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School . He has been a military officer, professional athlete, entrepreneur, environmental activist, twice a nominee for the U.S. Congress, and the author of numerous books. Joe’s most recent book is Seven Words That Can Change the World. His Ecuadorian residential project for BoomerScapers can be found at www.vilcabambahomes.com
Patrick Logan
Patrick, our Featured BoomerScaper, has provided invaluable guidance on the development on BoomerScape and has entertained us all immensely with his featured Blogs and tales of exotic travel and living throughout Latin America .