Comments on: Notes from the Road: Interview with Erik Gauger http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/notes-from-the-road-interview-with-erik-gauger Stories, Advice and the Internet's Best Travel Blogs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:40:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Brenda Du Faur http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/notes-from-the-road-interview-with-erik-gauger/comment-page-1#comment-4064 Brenda Du Faur Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:16:14 +0000 #comment-4064 I got the name of Erik Gauger from the letters-to-the-editor of Vanity Fair January 2009 issue letter he wrote regarding big Golf persons wrongly and destructively developing Great Guana Cay in the Bahamas. Much I admire about Vanity Fair- its diligent articles on bush jr and what his policies have done to the environment and so many many other things like that... But I disrespect Vanity Fair for being part of making a big fanfare over wrong things, like unconscionable giant development- as Gauger wrote, "touting the Baker's Bay Golf and Ocean Club"- "Bahamas Bliss"...and not bringing up the other very bad side of such things... People like Gauger who see all that is going on and are trying to do something about it are like wonderful and fantastical aliens to me. Destruction of land and over development are so painful to me that I, well, stay away from it. To give your all, and for years at that, which I have seen so many wonderful people do- and then maybe still see the bulldozer for another Walmart on the ground you were trying to save are things I feel like I wouldn't be able to bare...maybe I could evolve to Gauger's level of seeing it and being in it and actually trying to do something about it... I might need a molecular injection though... But I would take one voraciously if we humans could really reverse it all and save the habitat, the cultures, the people, the animals, the air, the water, the very soul of existence, the universe, the earth itself ... ... Brenda Du Faur, New Orleans I got the name of Erik Gauger from the letters-to-the-editor of Vanity Fair January 2009 issue letter he wrote regarding big Golf persons wrongly and destructively developing Great Guana Cay in the Bahamas. Much I admire about Vanity Fair- its diligent articles on bush jr and what his policies have done to the environment and so many many other things like that… But I disrespect Vanity Fair for being part of making a big fanfare over wrong things, like unconscionable giant development- as Gauger wrote, “touting the Baker’s Bay Golf and Ocean Club”- “Bahamas Bliss”…and not bringing up the other very bad side of such things… People like Gauger who see all that is going on and are trying to do something about it are like wonderful and fantastical aliens to me. Destruction of land and over development are so painful to me that I, well, stay away from it. To give your all, and for years at that, which I have seen so many wonderful people do- and then maybe still see the bulldozer for another Walmart on the ground you were trying to save are things I feel like I wouldn’t be able to bare…maybe I could evolve to Gauger’s level of seeing it and being in it and actually trying to do something about it… I might need a molecular injection though… But I would take one voraciously if we humans could really reverse it all and save the habitat, the cultures, the people, the animals, the air, the water, the very soul of existence, the universe, the earth itself … … Brenda Du Faur, New Orleans

]]> By: Ombretta Zanetti http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/notes-from-the-road-interview-with-erik-gauger/comment-page-1#comment-2356 Ombretta Zanetti Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:24:19 +0000 #comment-2356 Hi Erik I love your web site. I love your passion, drive , enthusiasm and ability to question (check out our blog, as per above, I write and my equally addicted traveller husband, Alex, takes the photos).....we share your passion.! Life, travel and writing have been my love and passion for a very long time now. Travel makes the home entertainment unit and the convertible porsche seem oh so very ho hum!!! So...............when are you coming to Australia? If you are ever down under, drop us a line, we would love to meet you! Cheers Ombi PS Don't worry about any of those pastors or born again...whatevers! Maybe if they travelled as mucga s we did, they would see the world through a "different evolution". Hi Erik

I love your web site. I love your passion, drive , enthusiasm and ability to question (check out our blog, as per above, I write and my equally addicted traveller husband, Alex, takes the photos)…..we share your passion.! Life, travel and writing have been my love and passion for a very long time now. Travel makes the home entertainment unit and the convertible porsche seem oh so very ho hum!!! So……………when are you coming to Australia? If you are ever down under, drop us a line, we would love to meet you!

Cheers

Ombi

PS Don’t worry about any of those pastors or born again…whatevers! Maybe if they travelled as mucga s we did, they would see the world through a “different evolution”.

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