Amy, who has been a message board moderator since the beginning (June 15, 2001) is stepping down because of time constraints - Amy has started Graduate School!
Amy, I wish you the very best in your new pursuits and thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the time you have spent in the Slow Travel Community. We would not be where we are today without your guidance, friendship and help.
I hope you continue to take part in the community as time allows and, if your workload eases up, we will welcome you back to moderating duties at any time!
Amy's member title now changes to "Moderator Emeritus".
While I am sad to be saying goodbye to Amy, I am happy to welcome Doru, the Slow Travel Patriarch, to join us as a new moderator! Doru will be both Patriarch and Moderator!
Doru, and his wife Josette, are currently traveling in France, and I will ask Kevin Widrow to print this out and show him when they reach Provence. (Doru accepted this new position before he left.)
Doru joined the Slow Travel Message board in May 2002 and has done 2380 posts. He has also contributed trip reports, articles, photo albums, and reviews to the Slow Travel site (listed below). And he recently retired - leaving him extra time for moderator duties!
Amy, best of luck with grad school and brava for pursuing it! I hope you know how much all your work here is appreciated and how much you'll be missed.
Thank goodness there's someone like Doru to fill the gap!
Amy, I will miss your extraordinary calm, reasoned responses when tryying to keep the tone of the message board on track. A true teacher sensibility! Good luck with your studies and I hope we will continue to see you on the board and in person at STGTGs. Thanks for all your hard work these past 5 years.
Well done Amy, I have always enjoyed your posts and it was so special getting to meet you last year on Sanibel and having lunch. Hopefully we can do it again. Congratulations on your new adventure.
Doru, looking forward to getting to know you better.
I will miss you, Amy, and wish you all the best. And I'll think of you when I make Heartburn Pie.
Doru, I woke early this morning and read again your first Italian notebook. Your writing is so well crafted and always make me feel I am reading a letter from a favorite uncle. Your pages from the Lakes and Venice could have been on fine stationery bearing the crests of elegant hotels.
My husband and I hope to visit Venice in the spring - our first visit. I anticipate we will experience the same emotions you so eloquently penned and will probably wonder aloud, as you did, "why did we wait all these years".
Welcome, "toroonto, ontaaario".
"I am a Southerner. I like the feel of these words. I could no more be otherwise than I could shed my outer skin or change the color of my eyes." Willie Morris
Posts: 1440 | Location: on the Alabama River | Registered: 22 July 2002
Well, Amy, I can't come up with anything else -- it seems like everyone has said it all. But I do want to add my thanks for all your help and wish you well in grad school. That is a huge chunk to bite off.
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Good luck with your studies!
