It was Margaret Atwood who said, “Wanting to know an author because you like his work is like wanting to know a duck because you like paté.” This didn’t stop us. We have been wondering about the faces behind the Tweets and have wrangled together pictures of a dozen Tweeps from the travel world…more to come as this series kicks off.

@traveldudes

@velvetescapes

@traveldesigned

@theplanetd

@ShannonRTW

@savvynavigator

@journeywoman

@andrewghayes

@earthXplorer

@collazoprojects

@Brillianttrips

@IsabellesTravel

Matador Tweeps

Follow the Matador Staff on Twitter! @rossborden, @LolaAkinmade, @dahveed_miller ,@tcpatterson, @ianmack, @livingholistic, @waywardlife, @collazoprojects, @vagab0nderz, @halamen, @joshywashington, @thefutureisred, @candicewalsh, @andrewghayes

Photo Essay
 

About The Author

Tom Gates

Tom is a wayward writer based in Los Angeles. He has served as Editor for both Matador Nights and Life. He loves to go far, far away whenever possible. He is also pretending to be a third person right now and is obviously writing his own bio. He knows that you knew that, despite the deft maneuvering of pronouns.

  • http://www.paul-sullivan.com Paul Sullivan

    So THAT’S what they all look like! Always nice to put a face to a tweet. Great work Tom…

  • http://www.southafrica-stay.com Dorothee

    Wow, cool! Thanx for sharing the faces of these great travel tweeple! :)

  • http://velvetescape.com/blog Keith

    Thanks for including Velvet Escape. Really appreciate it. Great overview. Always great to be able to put a face to a name.

    Cheers,
    Keith

  • http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/candicew86 Candice

    Such a good lookin’ bunch!

  • http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com Trisha Miller

    Love this post! Everyone on your list here I follow on Twitter, and several of them have written guest posts for my site – this is SO cool to see them “at work”!

  • http://musictravelwrite.wordpress.com Michelle

    Julie’s Mac is making me drool….

  • http://www.twobackpackers.com Jason of TwoBackpackers

    This is great, to finally see peoples faces!

  • http://www.lolaakinmade.com Lola

    Always cool to see the faces behind the tweets

  • http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/simonemarie Simone Gorrindo

    Ditto.

  • Tom Gates

    @earthXplore = NASA Mission Control?

  • http://www.theplanetd.com Dave and Deb

    I love this post! We followed everyone except @collazoprojects but we are following her now! So great to see everyone at work! I want to be where @SavvyNavigator is!

  • http://www.girlsgetaway.com Dian Emery

    What a great post – loved seeing these fun photo’s of people I talk to almost everyday!
    @earthXplorer-love the double monitor thing going on there, now that’s keeping connected:)

  • http://nodebtworldtravel.com brian from nodebtworldtravel.com

    Fun post! More people to follow.

  • http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/david-miller David Miller

    sorry about that.

    links fixed.

  • http://www.journeywoman.com Evelyn Hannon

    Just wanted to say that I appreciate being invited to be part of this photo essay. I’m definitely the ‘oldie’ in the group. That’s great because I have so much to learn and you young ‘uns are the perfect tweeps to teach me! And you do … every day!

  • http://www.jackmisadventures.blogspot.com/ jack

    Wow, what a great idea for a blog post! It definitely “humanizes” all of you travel tweeps!
    EarthXplorer, that’s a serious keyboard you got going there!

    Cheers!

  • http://gotpassport.wordpress.com/about/ GotPassport

    Awesome! Love the enthusiasm of this post! Give us more travelers and their environment!!

  • http://www.traveldesigned.com TravelDesigned

    How FUN!!
    I missed the premiere of this post due to my recent trip to Los Cabos. I love seeing who some of my fav tweeps are, now if I could only meet them!
    Thanks for the pleasure of being included in yours photo essay. :)
    Stephanie aka TravelDesigned

  • http://www.isabellestravelguide.com IsabellesTravel

    Thanks for including me! Sorry, you can only see one hand, I needed the other one to take the picture ;-)
    I wouldn’t mind having EarthXplorer’s workplace. Awesome with the two screens!
    Great post.

  • http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/sarah-park Sarah

    Nobody’s using Brizzly? Darn, it’s my Twitter fav.

    & ditto on Julie’s Mac. Yowza!

  • http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/sarah-park Sarah

    P.S., this was such a fun article. Loved seeing everyone at work/play.

  • http://thebrooklynnomad.com Andrew

    What a great idea. Love this article and cool to see many of my travel friends included in it.

  • http://www.ottsworld.com sherry Ott

    Wait a minute – no one was in their pajamas…that doesn’t seem real!

  • TravelDesigned

    Sherry, Come to think of it…. I slept in those clothes LOL!!

  • http://www.happyhotelier.com/ Happy Hotelier

    Cool
    I see you don’t have trackbacks installed here. Bit snobbish? LOL
    But I mentioned it in a post
    Cheers
    Happy Hotelier

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