Donna Crawford
Redondo Beach, California

 
Bio:

I was born in North Carolina and lived there until I was about 2 or so.  My father was in the military, so we moved every year or two.  We lived up and down the east coast, in Arkansas, Germany and Kansas, before he retired in 1980.  I attended Manhattan High School (in Kansas) and college and law school at the University of Kansas (Go Jayhawks!!).

I've lived in Alabama, Georgia, Texas and California since leaving my parents' home.  I currently live in California with my husband Kirk (even while we were on our RTW, we considered California as home). My family and friends are scattered all over the place, as you can imagine.

My husband and I are highly involved with our church, locally. I have lots of hobbies, including cooking, HAM radio, reading, travelling, bzflag, and sports/outdoor activities. Although I love to watch Jayhawk Basketball, I generally prefer to participate. Some of my favorites are beach volleyball, scuba diving, cycling, rowing, swimming, snow skiing, tramping, surfing, off-roading, etc.

My travels over the last few years have taken me to Costa Rica, Hawaii, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and most recently, on a 15-country, 1-year round-the-world trip.

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Recent Articles

Friday, October 13

 

Travel Memories

As I struggle to complete my reflections on my trip to Costa Rica in 1996, we just received an email from South Africa. About a year ago, Kirk and I were interviewed about our Round-the-World Trip on episode 10 of the Amateur Traveler podcast. Apparently, people are still listening to it!

"I am a new subscriber to the Amateur Traveller Podcast and I took a listen to the around the world episode where Chris interviewed yourself and Donna about your travels. I was especially glad to hear that you included South Africa, esp Cape Town in your itenary.

I am busy reading your journls on what you got up to down here and it seems like you covered many of the major attractions. It seems like you guys didn't manage to get to the winelands which is one of the most beautiful parts of the Cape. Towns like Stellenbosch, Paarl, etc come to mind.

I hope that you do decide to come back one day, but in the meantime, I'd like to invite you to listen to our podcast called The ZA Show (pr: The Zed-A Show) where we (my wife and) talk about all things South African from news, soundseeing tours, interviews, play SA music and keep listeners up-to-date on SA preparation for the 2010 soccer world cup. The address is http://www.thezashow.com.

Take care
Regards
~Glen"


In addition, we still occasionally hear from people we met on our trip. The memories are full and still, after three years, quite vivid!

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Saturday, September 24

 

Interviewed!


Kirk and I were interviewed recently for a travel show. You can listen to the latest Amateur Traveler online.

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Saturday, August 6

 

Postcasting


Well, Kirk & I have now started to listen to podcasts. There are a number of them that I enjoy listening to (and they usually have accompanying websites): Tiny Screenfuls with Josh Barnett, Podfinder with Adam Curry, Andy Grace: Talk of Australia, and KCRW's Good Food, among others. I was listening to Good Food the other day and they interviewed Eddie Lin, a blogger who was recently selected to receive an award for his food-oriented writing on Deep End Dining. Quite an interesting fellow.

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Donna in Austria
Click for larger image Austria, August 2003