For Immediate Release 
Tuesday February 1, 2000 

Contact: Bob Lawrence, Publisher 
TravelReporter.com 
tel: (619) 234-3110   fax: (619) 839-3857 
Email: publisher@travelreporter.com 

          TravelReporter.com has launched its premiere edition, now on the internet.  Publisher Bob Lawrence says the new, monthly  ezine provides unique opportunities for information, education and fun for world travelers and future adventurers.  “Where else on the internet can you hear the sounds of a surfacing hippo as it bobs out of the Mara River, gasps for air and growls,” said Lawrence. 
 
          Each monthly edition of TravelReporter features new, original adventure sounds, photos and travel articles, both staff written and contributed.  “TravelReporter provides an opportunity for new writers to get published on the internet.  We also encourage photographers to submit travel/adventure pictures for a separate monthly contest to be annouinced soon.  There is even a category for audiophiles to submit unusual sounds captured in exotic locations.  Details available on the web site.” 

          Bob is half of a writing and publishing team with includes wife Donna Lawrence, TravelReporter editor-in-chief.  Bob is a veteran TV journalist and producer, and Donna is an accomplished writer with credits for more than a hundred magazine articles published throughout the US and on the internet. She has a masters degree in geography and most recently has focused on environmental journalism.  

          In addition to articles, photos and sounds, TravelReporter.com offers an exciting array of links to important travel, adventure and travel news web sites.  There are also links to  MIT’s “Radio Stations on the Web,” the Rain-or-Shine world weather service, and the University of Texas electronic map collection of 2400 maps from around the world, many of them created by the CIA.  Another service of TravelReporter.com is a city-to-city air miles on-line calculator.  TravelReporter’s TravelLinks is a comprehensive list of more than 185 links compiled from many sources, offering links to such subjects as US passport requirements, State Department travel warnings, currency conversion and foreign newspapers.  There is also a free, web-based email service offering yourname@travelreporter lifetime email service that can be access from “anywhere in the known universe.” 

          “We hope to provide a variety of articles and services to inspire and entertain travel fans, curious students and anyone who finds learning about other places and people fun.”   In months ahead TravelReporter.com will add a Trading Post offering travel and adventure related products and services.  The Lawrences say the site will be supported by advertisers and product sales.  “We hope visitors will find our services valuable enough to support by patronizing our sponsors and affiliates, but mostly we hope they’ll like what we are offering and tells us how we can better serve our fellow travelers.”