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Obligatory TBEX 2011 Round-up, CG-style

Posted by Leslie on Jun 27, 2011 in Canada, People, Travel Blogging | 0 comments

Photo ©KirstenAlanaPhotography/Galavanting HA! Just when you thought the TBEX 11 articles were over….BAM you get another one! Enjoy :) So…jumping right back into work after 3 high-speed days of TBEX wasn’t easy. Its kind of like cooking Thanksgiving dinner and then getting up the next morning to make brunch for 30 people. I dreamt about TBEX. I shamefully played hooky from yoga class to start uploading pictures. I made lists on the train to and from work of all the minutiae I needed to work on to step up my blogging game. I bought maple-flavored...

LA Times Travel & Adventure Show, March 19-20

Posted by Leslie on Mar 21, 2011 in People | 0 comments

Where can you find people from Moab and Mongolia in the same place? How about Taiwan and Temecula? Ecuador and Ketchikan? If you said a Carnival Cruise, well…you might be right. But the definite answer is the LA Times Travel & Adventure Show, held each spring at the Los Angeles Convention Center and featuring over 100,000 square feet of space crawling with enthusastic tourism reps from all over the world. In today’s economic landscape, tourism is what is keeping many countries afloat, and for a lot of places the one thing they can rely on. Support for the...

Makin’ It Count

Posted by Leslie on Nov 15, 2010 in People | 0 comments

Hey travel bloggers! Want to give back (other than great destination info)? Wonderin’ what those widgets about building a village in India are all about? Enter Passports With Purpose, an incredible fundraising effort in its 3rd year now, supported and promoted by the travel blogging community to raise money for the year’s chosen cause. This year the community is partnering with Friends of Lafti to raise money to build an entire village in India. Bloggers who are interested in participating should go to the Passports website – there are a lot of ways to help out and...