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John Echevarria Male Miami, FL United States: Share on Facebook MySpace Tweet

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Are you connected to the tourism/travel/hospitality industries or travel media in any way? If so, please specify how (kindly include any relevant company names/Web sites!).: NO

On which destinations & travel topics can you advise members especially well?: Latin America, Europe

Other travel / language expertise?: more than 2 million miles in on frequent flyer (and have various...)

At 1:46am on February 23, 2010, John Echevarria said…: Hi Ed

no big misteries. I'm an executive at a multinational corp, takin care of Latin America, therefore, I travel a lot.

My daughter invited me to join, and I did. But besides of being an exec frequent flyer, I used to travel the world as a backpacker on the 70s. I did over 5K kilometers in Morocco in the 70s with 50$, and I know the middle East pretty well (I lived in Saudi Arabia and travelled through the emirates, Oman and yemen).

Yes I do have over 2 MM miles on one of my Frequent flyers cards, and probably that would go beyond 3MM if I could add all of them together, but I am not a George Clooney tipe of expert. I'm 55 and began travelling around since I was born (I'm a Spanish national born in the UK).
Probably a bit too old to give advise to youn backpackers. Still I might give our mebers some advice, and hope this helps

Best
> h

At 9:03pm on February 22, 2010, Ed Wetschler said…: John, your profile is one of the best I've read. In answer to the question, "Other travel expertise?" you've written, "more than 2 million miles in on frequent flyer...." Wow, that is traveling, all right. Welcome to Tripatini!

At 4:40pm on February 22, 2010, EnLinea Media said…: Good afternoon, John, 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, we recommend you take a moment to join several of our many groups which you may find of particular use, such as Florida, various Europe and Latin America country groups, Eating/Drinking the World, our Spanish and French language/culture clubs, and plenty of others covering many other topics and most destinations across the globe.

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Thanks much for joining us; we wish you an outstanding rest of 2010, and it goes without saying that we look forward to seeing you online.

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