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INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS

	Bruce Alderman - An Alaskan taxi ride to the wilds of Homer Spit 2/04 I want you to have this hat... 6/02
	Eleonora Baldwin - My Venice 9/09
	Pat Barbosa - Amazing Bats! Pat and friends have a bat-load of bat facts on these remarkable creatures. 5/05
	Ilan Bernet - Snow in the Desert (pictures) 2/00 Sunrise On A New Year at Masada 1/00 How Low Can You Go? A trip to the Dead Sea 12/99 Sinai re-visited 8/99
	Susan Berta - Orca magic 10/99
	David Bowles - Regarding Memorial Day 6/99
	Gail Boysen-Preset - Carnage of the Cute: Ladybugs invade a rifle range 04/04 Gail Preset recycles in the most unlikely place. 10/02 Gail retires her well-traveled shoes. It's a poignant day, indeed. 3/02 A trip to the Antiques Road Show redefines the whole concept of "charm" 10/01 A stiff companion earns his keep 8/01 List - Top Trivial Reasons to Travel 8/01 Visiting the Hearts of Holland. 8/01 List - Nine top preparations for Hurricane Season and Ten Splendors of the Fabric Store - 6/01 A Century of Flight 4/01 Spring Break In the Island Continent - 11/00 In parts of Florida, it's raining bears 11/00 Packing Light - Adopting Frumpy Chic 10/00 Baby turtles 9/00 Back down to earth in otherworldly Homer, Alaska. 8/00 The Space Shuttle launch in Florida. 7/00 Cooking with fire and smoke in that great Get Lost Magazine tradition. 6/00 Why I Can't Turn In An Article This Month 5/00 Traveling the Dark Side to the Sydney Olympics. 4/00 Florida on a Sandal-strap - Trans-Florida expedition. 3/00 In Praise of a Good Donut - Rapture at the Krispy Kreme shop. 3/00 From Necessity to Nicety, the Plight of Light 2/00 The Visage of Our Own Setting Star 1/00 A comparative natural history of Snowbirds in Florida. 1/00 Selling Christmas in Florida12/99
	Greg Brennan - Earth Attachment Theory 10/00 Regarding Memorial Day 6/99
	Myron "riverman" Buck - Living in Congo, Part V - Road Trip. 12/04 Living in Congo, Part IV - Military Danger. Riverman Buck's continuing adventures teaching and living in Africa. 5/04 Mauritius - "...Getting lost on these roads is guaranteed, especially in the surrealistic, Middle Earth-like mountains of the central region, as there are no road signs and villages all look fairly identical.... 5/04 Living in Congo, Part III- Typical Day - a vibrant life of Africa, the place they invented the color green. 04/04 Riverman, I presume? Living in Congo - Part II. 2/04 Riverman takes on a new life Living In Congo, Part I 1/04 Damned happy Canoeing Latvia's Gauga river 6/01 Virgin responds - 9/00 Buy a ticket on Travelocity and develop a Virgin Aversion. 7/00 Biking the Backroads of Israel 4/00 Another boating saga at "City of the Rocks" 11/99 riverman offers us Dumbass canoeing tales 10/99
	Ben Daube - Review - Britain's 500 Best Pubs 9/02
	John Dobovan - Getting Lost, Kauai Style 10/00
	Paul Dodson - Art on Cows 6/02
	Wendy Downer - Marry An Orphan, and seven more excellent guidelines for better living, in The Wendy Way. 04/04
	Gene Dyer - If You Get Lost at Sea, "Follow That Ship." 1/00 Don't Get Lost Without a Good Anchor Chain - 12/99 Did You Ever see an Eagle Swim? 10/99 Sex in a Corn Field? 9/99
	Zachariah Ezekiel - You've Gotta Hand it to Alternative Hygiene 4/00
	Rand Flory - Regarding Memorial Day 6/99
	Andy Foote - Review - Surfer movie "The Far Shore" 8/02
	Dave Friello - Is charm something that money can buy?10/01 Recipe - donuts and their ilk 3/00
	Rachel Friedman - The Floating Islands of Peru 12/04
	Ethan Gilsdorf - Letter from Japan 04/04 Afternoon, Even Early Evening 2/04 Winter poetry - "In the Snow" 1/04 Summer poetry - Ethan Gilsdorf isn't road kill but he knows about the Overpass... 7/03 Overcoat, Metro pass, five choice nouns for the task at hand... Ethan Gilsdorf arms himself with words 10/02 Except Herself 6/02 At the Planet Hollywood in Paris on September 11 10/01 A hitchhiker wakes up high and dry 8/01 The Century at Hand 8/01 A good look at America from the Window Seat 6/01 List: 29 Terrorist Demands 4/01 Highlights of a Subterranean Vacation. 7/00 How to Be a Paris Tourist 4/00
	Jeremy Hart - Jeremy Hart's honeymoon trip to Morocco and Spain. 3/02 List: Favorite Places in Ireland 4/01 An Irish Chowder Mini-Odyssey 4/01 Into Great White Unknown: Culture Clash in Canada 9/00 Conversation Topics for Lonely Foreigners 4/00
	Andrew Hartnagel - Lost in a Tofino Quest 1/04
	Leslie Hilts - From Laos to Nepal 7/99
	Philip Johns - Sex and the Single Entomologist brings us more Bug High Drama from the Shrubbery of Northern Virginia with The Return of the Periodic Cicadas. Review - Trail of Feathers - In Search of the Birdmen of Peru 5/03 Sex and the Single Entomologist asks "Whence Wings?" in an unexpected Look at the Mayfly 8/02 Sex and the Single Entomologist - Things Too Fierce to Mention: That Which Is (Not) a Bug. 6/02 Review - Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge 3/02
	Martha Jordan - Why Fred the Trumpeter Swan was relocated to a breeding program for anti-social behavior. 1/04 Homer Alaska welcomes non-prostitutes. 9/00 It's A Get Lost Salute to Australia! Pictures from Down Under. 12/99 Of Black, Quills and Coppers: a spine-tingler tale of fish cleaning 9/99 Predator Prey Counts in a cardboard habitat: A very scientific study of the bakery animal. 7/99 Swanning the Skagit (photographs) 4/99
	Carolyn Koppel - Orca Magic 10/99
	Maude Lynn - Meatloaf Nightmare 2/00 Recipe - Blue-Flame Sweet Potato Pie 1/00 Stalking the Wily Abalone 10/99
	Dave McBee - Acorn cookery. Oh, lord, make it stop... "Aplodontia" Mcbee Stalks the elusive Mountain beaver. Then making off with its little carcass. 5/05 Lonesome? Full bladder? McBee solves two problems at once and makes friends with mountain goats. 12/04 Giardia symptoms, treatment and prevention. 04/04 Atkins Squirrel - Foraging in the City 04/04 McBee defies the season's first freeze. 1/04 McBee enjoys his store-bought skull but is otherwise not fooled by cute wildlife: Don't Fuck with a Weasel. 7/03 McBee finds a Quileute drum circle. 8/02 Marking Time with the birds in the Arboretum. 6/02 So you think flying is bad? Here's something worse. 3/02 Don't ask the Western grebe for tips on cool moves 3/02 Be the Deer. Or Don't. Visibility and the Zen of collecting bullet holes 8/01 Dead bodies in back yard, corpses in the freezer - just a day's work for The Biologist, as McBee's friend Undertakes an Undertaking. REVIEW - BC Car Free 6/01 Welcome to Kosmos - Visiting the ghost town of lost electricity. 4/01 Dave thinks Joe Isuzu is a very bad man. 4/01 Confessions of a Candy-Ass 2/01 Boniface, Plastic Joseph, and a Big Dead Dog: A Love Story 11/00 Aliens Took Them Beavers 10/00 Whale Meat Again, Don't know where, don't know when... 8/00 Half-time at the Anthro Bowl: demystifying male behavior. 6/00 Getting Loster onthe Hoh river - 6/00 Son of Wilderness Access by Bus - 5/00 Telemarketers got you down? 5/00. Biodegradable Don't Mean Shit - 4/00 Be The Duck - Waterproofing breathable fabrics 3/00 Obscurity Lost. Hiding the truth about Seattle 1/00 Mass Transit Blues Washington recovers from Initiative 695. 12/99 McBee Meets a Monster in Lake Washington. 11/99 Food, Sex & Death on the Dungeness 10/99 What the Hell Good are Mosquitoes? (Part II) 10/99 What the Hell Good are Mosquitoes? (Part I) 9/99 Got Lost? A Lamentable Hiking Tale 9/99 A Trail Less Traveled: Colonel Bob Wilderness 8/99 The Ice Age Is Here 7/99 Our Scavenging Heritage 7/99 Flooded by Greed: The Skokomish River 6/99 Another Modest Proposal 6/99 Cootless in Seattle 4/99 Backpacking by Bus: Wilderness Trailhead Access by Public Transportation (ongoing series index)
	Mike McCrea - Chiroptera Fishing - Bat fishing offers a way keep those casting skills sharp even when the hatch is off. Review - Over... and Out - Deep Water Kayak Rescue Techniques 5/03 A nice canoe trip from Masemore to Sparks 10/02 Paddling Baltimore. 10/02 Mike McCrea slaves to build a Habitat for Tortoisity 8/02 The Grand Canyon Solo (and Backward) 3/02 Making the most of a dime is Thirsty Work 8/01 Send your girlfriend adrift in the Southwest wilds and see if she passes The Marriage Test 4/01 Down South Canoe Camping 5/00 Buck Swims With the Fishes. 3/00 Shuttle Bunnies 2/00 The Gentlemen's Leonid meteor observation expedition 2/00 Solstice Perigee Moonpaddle 1/00 Last Rites - 12/99 A Bridge Too Far - 9/99
	Bill McGown - Ice Caving - Bill McGown's ultimate coffee. 3/00
	Greg Metzger - Canada Welcomes Nunavut to the Confederation 4/99
	Meghan Miller - Nemo33 attracts divers and Deep Thoughts 1/09 Couchsurfing 9/09
	Robert Miller - Orienteering: Candidate for the Dumbest Sport Award 2/00
	Nick Mistretta - The moment's the only thing as Nick Mistretta Hangs Out. Love of travel 11/00. The whole scene in Amsterdam 6/00 Darkest Chinatown 5/99
	Lucia Novara - The Bathhouse 5/05
	Bill Otterson - Regarding Memorial Day 6/99
	Grover Prowse - How to Easily Filet Panfish 9/99
	Jean Robb - Secrets behind the Wendy Ward Charm School. 10/01 Noble Friend, Eddie Hunt 8/99 Life In Aspen: "You need MORE than that!" 4/99
	Talia Soghomonian The very first de-toursitification guide 10/01 American Beach Culture to Paris 8/01 Building her own Museum of Beaches 8/01 Stupid Questions About Europe - Microwaves in France 6/01 An Anthropological look at Euro Disney 10/00 Couture Week in Paris 10/00 Alternative Olympics 9/00 Riding the Paris Metro 7/00
	Hal Streckert - Hal visits a salt werk 10/02 Mt. Blanc Madness 3/02
	Leslie Strom - The Ultimate Stupid Recipe - Texas Tornado Two-Step Muffins. 5/05 Saffron Rules! Christo & Jeanne-Claude's Gates blow sunshine through Central Park. 5/05 Mac World Expo - Steve Jobs trots out the cool new stuff. 12/04 Editorial - Get a Secure Job, Find a Nice Guy, and Buy a House. 12/04 The classic Stupid Recipes cookbook is a free download just in time for holiday cooking! Artichoke Wars - I never tried to stuff an artichoke until I found myself embroiled in the Great Stuffing Controversy and asked the scientific question: Is it really worth the trouble? Attack of the Wi-Fi Girls, Part III - Kensington Wi-Fi Finder, Wi-Fi Priceliners, and a little mill town mixes amazing espresso, wi-fi and books. 2/04 Editorial - Now THAT'S Pioneer Spirit... the brave men and women who deployed their hosiery against the British in the War of 1812. 2/04 Cocktail hour! Home-made edible barware 2/04 Editorial - Your Very Own Cosmic Answer Machine 1/04 Curling - It's More than Big Stones, and We Got 'Em 1/04 Attack of the Wi-fi Girls - Part II - Wireless security (or lack thereof) - rhe gleeful geeks of SeattleWireless.net sniff my password, A report from Paris, and iChatAV 7/03 Can this man's dignity be saved? Three Jobs in High Tech Hell. 5/03 Attack of the Wi-Fi Girls, Part I - More than just cell phones and way beyond radio, tap the wireless Internet and the world is yours. 5/03 Editorial - We're Still Getting Lost, So Thank You for Traveling 5/03 Treason, sacrilege and biting the heads off candy deities 10/02 Your Editor goes to her 30th high school reunion 10/02 Editorial - Blasphemy and Treason, now in minty-fresh bite-sized mega-packs. 10/02 Review - Globetrotter Dogma 8/02 Dumb-Ass trip - John endures a gruelling timeshare sales pitch for a free trip to Whistler Village 8/02 Editorial - Philosopy in its many phorms / Salt: The Deadly Condiment / My Goat Can Fly 8/02 Dumb-Ass trips compresses a couple revolutionary giant ziplock bags. 6/02 Editorial - Mayberry Breeds with Northern Exposure 6/02 Don't ask the pigeon for dating tips because this is how it will turn out. 3/02 Editorial - Ice - Make Mine a Single / The Travel Video Stalker 3/02 Putting Peter Greenberg "the Travel Detective" to task on a last minute ticket, leading to the minute-by-minute diary of the expedition to get a last minute cheap airfare to San Francisco. 3/02 Review - Landmark Trust Handbook can feed every lodging fantasy 10/01 Euro info every traveler needs to know 10/01 A Dumb-Ass trip to the Long Beach International Kite Festival. 10/01 Book Review - Ghost Towns of the Northwest 8/01 Travel souvenirs, and what NOT to collect 8/01 Feng Shui for the Traveler 6/01 List: Favorite Travel Smells 4/01 Vancouver, British Columbia - Four Ritzy Lounges and a Fry House. 2/01 Review - four packing books: Pack It Up!, Simple Chic Packing, Fodor's How to Pack, and a bit of Rick Steves. 11/00 Packing light - 10/00 Ottawa, A Source of Warmth10/00 In-Seine in Paris - 7/00 National Association of Broadcasters week and the Hunter S. Thompson Award for leadership - 5/00 Priceline and MSN Expedia: buying plane tickets on line 3/00 The Paris Meridian - 3/00 One negro man mingo - 30 pounds, 0 shillings - 3/00 Visiting Invisible Friends at the Y2kEN party 2/00 Review - DeLorme's Street Atlas USA 2/00 Cartopping a Small Boat 2/00 Leslie Buys a Kayak and Smuggles it Through Customs 2/00 Dick's Drive-Ins: Can They Outlive the Replicants? 2/00 Potomaca - The Making of An Epic Map. 2/00 Recipe - Flaming Pumpkin Pie - 1/00 The World Trade Organization comes to Seattle: Who Invited All These Tacky People? 12/99 Leslie Strom hauls Australian Wildman Philip Hodgetts to Roslyn, Washington where he discovers it's a place worth far more than a handful of Northern Exposure reruns. 12/99 Recipe - Teevee Turkey Soup 11/99 Dumb-ass Trips goes to the Port Townsend Sea Kayak Festival 10/99 Orca Magic 10/99 Pipers Without Underpants: Jean & Leslie Look for the Regiment in Enumclaw 9/99 Searching for Whale Bones: Extra-legal Pursuits on a Summer Night 9/99 Canoeing the Flathead River 8/99 Barbara Besteni on Marketing Marketing 8/99 Weeki-Watchee's Loss Was Lolita's Gain: A Visit with Laura Singer, Dolphin Girl 8/99 Quicksand, Yellow-Headed Blackbirds, and Carp-Bonking: Canoeing the Potholes Reservoir 7/99 Adventures in Recycling: The Lind Combine Demolition Derby 7/99 The Mother's Day Demonstration at Miami Seaquarium (Lolita the Killer whale Part II) 6/99 Regarding Memorial Day 6/99 100,000 Geek-Boys Can't be Wrong: Make Friends, Create Legends, Crash Parties, Win a Bucket of Nickels 6/99 Plant a tree some other time: Here's Some MEANINGFUL Earth Day activities 4/99 Swanning the Skagit 4/99 Paddling through Yakima Canyon 4/99 Take That Videotape out of Your Mouth, Dear. You Don't Know Where it's Been 4/99 The Food's Dead, The Weather's Hot, The Job's a Joke. Can Someone Come Get Me Out of This Place? (Lolita the Killer whale Part I) 4/99 The Kalakala - newest Rustbucket on Lake Union 4/99 Review - Handbooks in Relationship Hell - book reviews 4/99 Review - Sex Manuals in Relationship Hell - book reviews 4/99 The Monaco Report or "Excuse Me... Do You Have Prince Albert in a Can?" 2/98 Review - Cheap and Biased Book Reviews - Rowing books 5/91
	Martha Strom - Recipes - Lemon sorbet in lemon shells Recipe - Strawberry Cheese Pie 5/04 Recipe - Orange Coconut Angel Food cake for Mother's Day or whatever spring holiday you have. 04/04 Recipes - Ultimate guide to grilled cheese sandwiches. 2/04 Recipes - A Valentine's Day Dessert Party 2/04 Recipes - Onion Soups for the New Year. 1/04 Recipes - a small rare prime rib for two 5/03 Recipes - How to eat a two-quart jar of olives. without drinking 158 martinis. 10/02 Recipes - five summer salads 8/02 Recipes - Puff Pastry creations 6/02 Recipes - Luncheon for Two at an Airport Near You 3/02 Recipes - Tea on a Tailgate. 10/01 Recipes - Freezer souvenirs 8/01 Recipe - Corn chowder (Eel optional) 4/01 List - Five Telltale signs You're in a Bachelor's Kitchen, Five "Must Haves" for Your First Budget Trip to Paris, France or Texas. 2/01 Menus - a Soup supper and a Cookie Buffet. 2/01 Menus - Stuffed? We'll show you stuffed. 11/00 Recipes - Shoebox meals 10/00 Recipes - Autumn pies 9/00 Recipes - Bourbon Balls & Orange-Coconut Angelfood Cake 5/00 Recipes - A month of Comfort Food 4/00 Recipes - Donuts and their ilk 3/00 Recipes - Meatlof Dinner 2/00 Recipe - Pumpkin Ginger Ice Cream Pie 1/00 Recipes - A Bite-Sized Cookie Buffet 12/99 Recipe - Zucchini Bread 11/99 Recipes - A Quick Meal for A Winter's Night 11/99 Recipes - Nuts to You! It's Pecan Month! 10/99
	Mark Suszko - Regarding Memorial Day 6/99
	Marcia Tapp - Cocktail hour! Home-made edible barware 2/04 And THAT'S Why They're Called Kanga Bangas.... 11/99 Come Visit Laos. We Can Let You in Now 4/99
	Mark Van Ryzin - Twelve Days in the Himalayas (three part story) 9/00 The challenge and beauty of Mount Everest. 6/00
	Ryan Wells - Ryan Wells Samoan Delicacy, Worm Debauchery.5/03