Kyle is an International Business student at RMIT University, in Melbourne, Australia. He came to dodo.com in March 2008 as an intern and works writing travel guides for the website. Kyle is originally from New Hampshire, USA, and has been traveling since before he can remember. He has traveled throughout much of the US, highlighted by, Colorado, where he studied Business at the University of Northern Colorado for two years, and Martha’s Vineyard, where he worked as a taxi driver for two summers. Outside of the United States, Kyle has been to Bangkok, Tokyo, Sicily, Rome, Pisa, Messina, Monte Carlo and Melbourne, where he lived for one year and will return to following his internship in Berlin. Kyle greatly enjoys seeing the world and writing about his travels. When he is not busy with work or school, he is most commonly found skiing or golfing.

This picture shows Kyle at the summit of North Cone, at Winter Park ski resort in 2005.

Ulrike joined our team in February of 2008. She has recently finished her Master’s studies in Tourism Business Administration at the University College Birmingham and will be working with us on different marketing aspects. During her high school year in Australia in 2001/2002, she discovered her desire to pursue travel and tourism as a career. She subsequently completed a 2-year apprenticeship as International Tourism Assistant in Dresden. Since then, she had accumulated business experience while traveling by completing as internship in Corsica. Ulrike’s personal travel highlights so far are Australia, Brazil, Norway, Sweden, France and Greece. However, she also sees her homeland, Germany, as a great travel destination.

The picture shows Ulrike on a sightseeing bus in Bath (UK) in 2006.

Christopher came to Berlin in early December of 2007 as a travel writer for dodo.com. He has visited the British Isles, Ireland, the Netherlands, and most revered, Israel. He also drove 8,000 miles with his best friend on a 40-day coast-to-coast adventure through America. Born in Brooklyn and relocated to beautiful Seneca Lake (in New York State’s Finger Lakes), he has lived half his life in the city and half in the country, feeling at home in both.

Christopher studied six years in Binghamton, NY where he earned a double-Bachelor’s degree in philosophy and history as well as a Master’s in the Art of Teaching Social Studies (from Harpur College and the School of Education, respectively) at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Passionate about writing, Christopher is currently working on a collection of short stories as a testament to his native New York.

The picture shows Chris at the Crater Lake National Park in 2007.

Claudia just finished her international studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Stralsund, Germany and has written her Bachelors Thesis on the development of dodo.com. She was there from the first minute of developing the portal. She started traveling at age of 12 and had been to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Spain, England and Poland by the time she was 18 years old. She was never afflicted with homesickness, though she was touched with wanderlust. Claudia then decided to become an AuPair for 13 months after she finished school in 2002. Besides all the hard work and short finances, she managed to travel the USA from the East to the West coast and back. Shortly after arriving back in Germany, Claudia kept backpacking through Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, England and again back to the USA, where she performed a 6 months internship in a company called Paige Electric Co. LP.

The picture was taken 2003 and shows Claudia in South Beach Miami

Julia joined our dodo-team in the summer of 2007 and has contributed innovative, creative ideas to our project. Julia studied business communication at the University of Applied Science in Berlin (FHTW). Wanderlust was put into her crib, as she flew to Moscow and the Black Sea by the time she was only 2 years old.
Today, she can not tell just how often she has traveled. Though Julia can say that she has visited at least one country per year. Whether an all-inclusive escape to a beach or backpacking through jungles or cities, Julia has covered much ground. Her memories about Africa, Norway and the Arabian Emirates have left a particularly deep impression.

The picture shows Julia with a close friend in Dubai.

Today we would like to start to introduce ourselves to you. Let’s get started with Beth.

Beth came from Kansas to Berlin in June of 2007 to do a travel writing internship for us. She has written guides to places all over the world, which can be found on Dodo.com. At age 16 she spent a year in Tours, France, and she has visited Europe several times since. Her next travel plans are to start exploring the Asian continent as soon as possible. One of Beth’s favorite things about traveling is getting to know the local peoples and cultures, instead of simply looking at tourist attractions. Beth lives in Lawrence, Kansas where she attend the University of Kansas. She is pursuing a bachelors degree in journalism and social work. She works for the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, (CreSIS), where she writes articles about research in climate change and the happenings of the center. She has worked as an opinion columnist for the University Daily Kansan and as a guest columnist for the Lawrence Journal World.

The picture shows Beth at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas.