Buying the New Yorker 1986 - page 5

During the course of this project I've had a look at a number of travel companies. I've seen the ones for rich folks who want to be pampered. I've seen the ones for folks on a budget. I've seen the ones for people who want an adventure and will be happy to sleep in a ditch if that ditch is in an interesting place.

As near as I can figure with this bunch, I think we have a case where they had an internet forum early in the life of the open internet. So many people have logged in to discuss their wonderful vacation on the message board and stayed to chat with all the other interesting people who went on some other trip somewhere else that we have a nice little community of people who are happy to all hang out in the Maupintour space, wishing each other Happy Birthday, Bon Voyage, and perhaps planning to meet up, have a drink, take a trip together and, apparently in some cases, get spontaneously engaged to be married.

(The most recent engagement was a lovely couple named Mark and Erika. As Mark's account name was "Marry me Erika," this should not come as too much of a surprise, but still -- if she turned him down, I hope he would have been able to change the account name. If he couldn't, that would be awkward.)

Anywho, if you are a braver websurfer/travelnaut than I am, sign the heck up and go.