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How to Quit Your Job and Travel the World
Photo: Jupiter Images via Discovery.com
A step by step guide on how to tell your boss to “take this job and shove it” so you can follow your dream of traveling the world. (Discovery.com, December 2011)
In Kenya, Edward Norton’s “Club” Fights for the Environment, the Animals, and the Maasai
A look at the private conservation efforts outside the national parks in Kenya, and how it affects the local Masaai tribes. (Discovery.com, April 2012)
Along The Trail Of Brotherhood
A gripping tale of survival on the Everest trail is the Adventure Travel Silver Certificate Winner in The 2008 Solas Awards, sponsored by Travelers’ Tales, an annual competition to honor excellence in travel writing.
Geocaching for Beginners
A beginner’s guide to the world of geocaching, a real life treasure hunt game in which participants use GPS devices to locate over a million objects hidden around the world. (Discovery.com, November 2011)
How to Climb a Tree Like a Pro (or, How *Not* to Use Tree-Climbing Spikes)
A research report about the recreational sport of tree climbing, its techniques, its do’s — and its don’ts. (Discovery.com, November 2011)
10 Tips for Taking Outdoor Photos
A round up of ten suggestions for taking more engaging photos in the great outdoors. (Discovery.com, October 2011)
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Monkeying Around
Erik takes his assignment to write about gorilla trekking for Discovery.com, and evolves it into an 18-day journey to explore Uganda and Rwanda, two countries in eastern central Africa with rainforests known for their populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. What he comes to discover on this monkey tour is that both countries offer much more than just primates; there are opportunities for: one of Africa’s wildest whitewater rafting experiences on the Nile, safaris for elephants, buffalo, hippos, and white rhinos, insightful historical tours, mountain biking on a new lakeside trail — and even an encounter with African royalty.
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ABOUT ERIK R. TRINIDAD
When he’s not making a living as an interactive designer or playing with fast food, Erik R. Trinidad is a Contributing Writer for Discovery.com, focusing on adventure articles. His work has also been featured in National Geographic Traveler, the New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, Pilot Guides’ GlobeTrekkerTV.com, and BootsnAll.com. His short story “Disbelief of Wonder” appears in the best-of-travel-humor anthology, 
Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why, which also includes the work of Tim Cahill, Doug Lansky, Jennifer Leo and Rolf Potts. He has also referenced his travel experiences in his solo book, Fancy Fast Food: Ironic Recipes with No Bun Intended.
For over ten years, Erik has traveled to the seven continents of the world — from Timbuktu to Kalamazoo — with a curiosity for exotic foods and a thirst for adventure (and writing material). In his travels, he has been mugged at knifepoint in Cape Town, extorted by corrupt Russian police on the Trans-Siberian Railway, stranded in tornadic storms in the American midwest, and air-lifted off the Everest Trail by a helicopter that was thankfully paid for by his travel insurance. But it hasn’t been all fun; he has also donned a tuxedo amidst the penguins of Antarctica, paraded with Carnival-winning samba school Beija Flor in Rio, run for his life at Pamplona’s “Running of the Bulls,” cage-dived with great white sharks, gotten shot point-blank in the stomach in Colombia (while wearing a bulletproof jacket), and above all, encountered many people around the world, including some Peruvian musicians in Cuzco who learned and played “Y.M.C.A.” at his request. He loves the irony that, after everywhere he’s been, he has never been to Mexico.
Erik writes stories and news articles when he’s at his base camp in New York City, and continues his blog when he is on the road — provided he’s not occupied tracking down lost luggage.
News/article clippings furnished upon request.
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Read about Erik in this feature article from Filipinas magazine by National Geographic Traveler Associate Editor Amy Alipio.
