About UsAll the women I know love the adventure of travel, and we love to share our experiences with like-minded friends. Some of my friends, like Cam and Bambi and Bonni, have chosen careers that carry them around the globe. Others, like Joyce and Marla and Toni, have found creative ways to get away from jobs on a more regular basis than the standard American one-week-annual vacation. And what better way to indulge my own taste for adventure than to share my travels as well through an internet magazine? I never started out to be a journalist. My first job was an IBM Proof Machine Operator for the Federal Reserve Bank. Then there was that stint as a Playboy Bunny at the Detroit Playboy Club… After two years at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, armed with an A.A. degree in Commercial Art, I spent a few decades beating deadlines in the Mad Men world of advertising in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
An entrepreneurial spirit I didn’t even know I had led me to start my own ad agency, and subsequently a print communications company specializing in direct response marketing. It was through the latter company that I had the opportunity to become the founding editor of the regional magazine, Nevada Woman. The journalist in me was born. I began to get published in other magazines as well: Sunworld, Best Read Guide, Las Vegas Style, Las Vegas Magazine, Bride’s, Miami Metro Magazine, and even Elvis International.
I’ve written about business, news topics, food, gaming, entertainment, and travel. I’ve interviewed lots of celebrities—loved asking all those questions mom told me were impolite to ask.
In 1999, I threw it all away to join the Peace Corps and landed in Suriname (formerly Dutch Guyana), South America. Think half way between Devil’s Island and Jonestown.
I’ve been writing and art journaling about my travels ever since.
Oh yeah, along the way there were a couple of husbands, pets (a Poodle, three Border Collies and four parakeets in various colors), and two beautiful stepdaughters, adventuresses in their own ways. There’s also a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Antioch University, Seattle and a certificate for my tile at Seattle’s Pike Place Market hanging on the wall. Somewhere in a filing cabinet are also a bunch of design and communication awards. I live in Cuenca, Ecuador where I write, do business & marketing consulting, and also dabble in my art studio. These photos are from my personal travel collection. Adventuress Travel Magazine is a happy culmination of many of my passions. I’d love to hear your comments or ideas for the magazine. E-mail me at editor@adventuresstravel.com. --Carolyn V. Hamilton Reprint permission You are welcome to reprint any items from Adventuress Travel Magazine. However, please credit us as a source with the following paragraph: Reprinted from Adventuress Travel Magazine, a travel source for the mature adventuress, offering true experiences, sound travel tips, and stories of adventuresses in history, books and film. http://www.adventuress-travel-magazine.com
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After a year doing “rural community development” in an Amerindian village on the northeast corner of the Amazon basin, I was transferred into the capital,
