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This Person is Off to Costa Rica

There were a lot of good applicants for the free trip to Costa Rica. After reading them all, I realized that I really wanted to go to Costa Rica. It’s been years since I went so I picked myself to go. I’m the winner of my own contest. Well, I was for about five minutes [...]


Vote and Send Someone to Costa Rica

I finally went through all the applicants for the two week free trip to Costa Rica from Gap Adventures and I. To be honest, I thought I would get more. I only got 42. Apparently, people don’t really like free trips, even when you include airfare. While that’s disappointing, it gives the applicants a better [...]


Win a Free 2 Week Trip to Costa Rica

THIS CONTEST IS NOW OVER! THANK YOU FOR ENTERING! PUBLIC VOTING WILL BEGIN SHORTLY! My solo first trip was to Costa Rica in 2003. I had never been out of the country before, and I went with a company called Gap Adventures. I don’t even remember how I found them, but I liked what they stood [...]


Christmas Sales and Interns

This blog post is about two things: one big, one small. First, the small thing: Since it’s the holiday season, I thought I’d offer a holiday treat. From now until Christmas, my ebook on monetizing and creating a successful travel blog is on sale and only 17 dollars. You still get all the perks too- the [...]


Build a School, Win a Backpack

As travelers, we take a lot from the world- food, people, experience, but we rarely give back to the world we take so much from. Luckily, opportunities always present themselves.  Last year, Pam Mandel from Nerds Eye View, Beth Whitman from Wanderlust and Lipstick, Debbie Dubrow from Delicious Baby, and Michelle Duffy from WanderMom created an [...]


Announcing October’s Contest Winners

At the beginning of October, I ran a contest giving away a free iPod Touch to the affiliate that sold the most ebooks. I also gave away three free nights at a hostel for one lucky RSS subscriber. I learned a lot during this about running a contest. It was a good learning lesson that [...]


Win a Free iPod Touch (and more)!!!!

Last year, I ran a contest giving away a few little travel things. Now, my website is bigger, my audience is bigger, so the prizes are bigger. Contest #1- WIN A FREE IPOD TOUCH!! Already have an iPod Touch? Want something else? Sure, you can get a camera or flight for equal value. One of the three. How [...]