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Travel Channel: Photo Journeys

Date: December 1st, 2006 |

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Amanda Congdon vs. 7 Days in a Sentra

Date: November 22nd, 2006 |

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The Travel Gear Blog is Alive and Kicking

Date: October 16th, 2006 |

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Mika Lepisto, has revived BootsnAll’s Travel Gear Blog—and it’s jamming. If you remember, our friend Joe Ehrlich started it a few years ago. Mika has given the site a makeover as a part of BnA’s Logue It series, and they’re looking for more writers.
As you would expect, the Travel Gear Blog reports on the [read more]

Gridskipper Contest: Win Wallpaper City Guides

Date: October 3rd, 2006 |

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Here’s a chance to score some glossy guidebooks. Gridskipper wants your best city itineraries: Pick one of the 20 cities featured in Wallpaper’s new City Guides series and describe how to best spend $100 in a day. The itinerary you propose for $100 US dollars should not include lodging, but should feature food and [read more]

MSNBC Travel Quiz

Date: August 17th, 2006 |

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Think you know everything about travel? Do you know what a billabong is? Or where Pike’s Peak is located? Part of travel writing is identifying new and emerging trends and hot destinations. More than that, also having prior travel on existing ones. Of course you know simple things like the city the Eiffel Tower is [read more]

Gifts for Writers

Date: November 28th, 2006 |

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Collecting National Geographic

Date: November 11th, 2006 |

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By sheer happenstance I was surfing through Craigslist and found a collection of National Geographic magazines from 1985-2005. The seller was only asking for $25. The magazines are in top condition. I couldn’t believe what a treasure I had come across. My grandmother has a collection dating back to at least mid century and has [read more]

Calvin and Hobbes Talk about Writing

Date: October 6th, 2006 |

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This is the first of four panels where Calvin and Hobbes are discussing writing. Click here for the full strip. I found it on a random Google search.
Wikipedia has an extensive page on Calvin and Hobbes, in case you wanted to know more about this treasured strip and the creator, Bill [read more]

New AdventureLogue from BootsnAll

Date: September 7th, 2006 |

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Greetings, all.
In the name of shameless self-promotion and keeping it all in the BootsnAll family, I’d like to officially announce the unofficial launch of the Adventure Travel Logue at www.adventurelogue.com. You may remember from a few weeks back that BnA was looking for travel guides for their new series of Logues. In fact, they’re still [read more]

Scouring the earth for travel video

Date: July 26th, 2006 |

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>For those of you that are technologically inclined (or obsessed) enough to lug a camcorder along on your travels, you might be interested in what the boys at scourist.com are doing. The bare-bones site publishes short travel videos on a regular basis. Be sure to check out the Namibia safari soundtrack in the “Biltong [read more]