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Send Me Somewhere Results – Week Two

Another week and another city gets the boot. As I mentioned on Twitter and hear in previous weeks, I am looking to go away in early 2010 and would like for you to help me out with the location. I am calling it  “send me somewhere” and I ask for a single vote each week…

Send Me Somewhere Results – Week One

Last week I asked you to send me somewhere and you sure did make your voices heard loud and clear. Just to catch you up in case you missed the announcement last week and were too lazy to click my link in the last sentence, I need help planning my next trip for early next…

Plan My Next Trip

As you may know by now, I really like to travel. I also assume that if you read my blog that you also really like to travel. I mean I am always looking to visit some faraway locale and usually have the next destination planned before my current trip is over. As a travel junkie,…

Airtran, Virgin, & Southwest Offer Scary Good Sales

There have been all sorts of spooky airline deals coming in this week leading up to Halloween. Three airlines in particular have given passengers plenty of reasons to hop a plane and fly like a bat out of hell across the country. AirTran: The low-cost carrier wants you to skip raking the leaves and get…

Travel Blog Exchange 2010 Is Coming To New York City

This past July travel bloggers from around the world flocked to Chicago, Illinois in order to celebrate, interact, learn, and network at the first ever Travel Blog Exchange. This event covered such topics as “what is the difference between travel journalism and blogging” and “using your trip video footage to become a vlogger” just to…

An Olympic Size Giveaway

Chicago…Madrid…Rio de Janeiro…Tokyo. All four locales are absolutely amazing cities that pretty much any traveler would love to visit on their next trip. They are also the final four nominees vying to host the 2016 Olympic Games. So how would you like to visit one of these desirable destinations for free? One lucky twerson…er I…

Book A Hotel Room And Eat Ice Cream In New Pajamas For A Good Cause

How does a new pair of PJs and bowl of ice cream in bed sound right about now? Yeah I agree…pretty damn good. The good people at Affinia Hotels have come up with one of the more memorable hotel packages I have come across in quite sometime. They are calling it the “Comforthon” and it…

Look Out Below With These See-Through Travel Attractions

While flipping through the endless amount of awful options that were presented to me one night by my great cable company, I came across a special on the Discovery Channel about the all new Grand Canyon Skywalk. If you have not heard of this extreme innovation that has become a new popular tourist attraction in…