This Person is Off to Costa Rica
By NomadicMatt | Published: March 10, 2010
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 before Bruce and the rest of the Gap crew told me that wasn’t in the contest rules and we had to pick one of the contestants. So after some discussion, we picked….
Meggie Weirich.
She was Contestant #2 and made this amazing video as her entry:
How We Picked Meggie
Myself along with Bruce, the CEO of Gap Adventures, Greg Hayes, the marketing manager, Carrie from My Several Worlds, and Craig from Indie Travel Podcast were the voting team. We each picked our top three candidates using the top public voting as a guide.
I figured we would go through several rounds of debating as we would all pick different people and we would have to square our choices with the top voted entries. And we did. We all had different lists. Except for one name- Meggie. Not only was she on every list, she was usually number one or two. Combine that with the fact that she was #2 in the public voting, she had enough points to win. We all agreed that Meggie should go.
Meggie’s application had a lot of what we were looking for: creativity, passion, and humor. We liked how she referenced Gap Adventures environmental policy and sustainability.
Meggie will be going on March 28th and will be blogging her way through her trip. Her website will be up shortly and when it is, I’ll give everyone the URL. We’re letting Meggie pick her own site name!
So Pura Vida Meggie! Have an Imperial beer for us!
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Congrats Maggie!
I’m so proud of my little sister!!!!! Congrats Megala! I look forward to your daily blogs and will try not to be too incredibly jealous. Love you much.
Congrats Meg!!! But, wasn’t she contestant #1 and 1st place in popular votes Matt???
When I did the tally, she was #2 in voting.
Puro vida indeed! (that’s Pure life/ pure living)
Way to go Meggie!
Congrats to Meggie!!! A well-deserved win! The donation to Planeterra is quite helpful as well!
Go Meg!!! Drink alot of coffee for me!
Congrats Maggie!
Congrats Meggie! Can’t wait to see her videos of Costa Rica.
She must be over the moon. What an exciting prospect. Meggie + Costa Rica = amazingness. It’s too bad others lost out, but it is a contest after all.
congratz – look forward to hearing all about the trip – what was the link to her blog again?
Congratulations on winning.
Have a wonderful time in Costa Rica! Congratulations on winning a trip to this beautiful travel destination.
About three years ago I spent two weeks in Costa Rica, and it was by far the most peaceful and pure (pura vida!) travel experience I have had yet.
Have a great trip, Maggie! Looking forward to reading your updates. Oh, and breakfast in Costa Rica is sublime. (I still crave the sweet plantains.)
-Karina
Enjoy the “Pura Vida” Country! I will be a life changing experience!
Congrats!