Good morning, Karen, and welcome to Tripatini! 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 groups which you may find of particular interest, such as Media Only, Eating/Drinking the World, Wine Tourism, Spas, Golf Getaways, Shopping the World, Adventure Travel, Resorts Corner, The Caribbean, Travel Products, our Spanish Language/Hispanic Cultures Club, and plenty of others covering many topics and most destinations across 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 writing, and your writing/outlets.

Finally, if you would, please be so kind as to spread the word among your travel-interested friends, family, colleagues, associates, readers, 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!).

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

Cheers!