Good afternoon 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 other of our many groups which you may find of particular interest, such as Travel Marketers/Publicists, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Eating/Drinking the World, Hotels/Motels, our French Language/Culture Club, and plenty of others covering many other 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 travels, and DuPage County.

Finally, if you would, please be so kind as to spread the word among your travel-interested friends, family, colleagues, associates, and CVB members. 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; we wish you an outstanding holiday season, a great start to 2010, and look forward to seeing you online.

Cheers!