Good afternoon, Claire, and welcome to Tripatini! It's great to have you with us -- and we think you'll find our site productive as well as interesting and enjoyable.

To get the most out of Tripatini, you may want to take a moment to join several of our many other groups which you may find of particular interest, such as Airfares/Air Travel, Hotels/Motels, Resorts Corner, Spas, Bars/Clubs, France, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, our French, Spanish, and Italian language/culture clubs, and plenty of others covering many other topics and most destinations across the U.S., Europe, and the rest of the globe.

FYI, on your profile you'll see a green bar marked "Text Box," which you can turn into a box containing not just text but also photos and even videos about yourself, your interests, your travels, your work at CNT, and any other writing/outlets.

Finally, if you would, please be so kind as to spread the word among your travel-interested friends, family, colleagues, associates, and readers. It's fast and easy to use our "INVITE" function above left on the navigation bar to enter e-mails (even your whole list at once!). And if you can interest anyone at CNT in covering us, that would of course be great.

Thanks much for joining us, Claire; we wish you an outstanding rest of 2009 and look forward to seeing you online.

Cheers!