It would be wrong to say I’d done nothing in January. We went to Vancouver and to Richmond for my birthday and to do research for a story. I have been jamming, hard, with the band, and doing my share of woodshedding, and learning how to say things like “jamming hard and woodshedding” without sounding like a total tool. I’ve been struggling to write two travel stories, one that finally snapped in to place and one that just refuses to show me the way to the end.… continued…
This is totally inside baseball kind of stuff. Don’t want to read a post about criticism? Here’s a slideshow from Alaska instead. It’s pretty.
I made Some Random Dude mad at me last week. I posted a picture of what I thought was a travesty of an opening line from a travel piece in the Register-Guard, a paper out of Eugene, Oregon. The photo included the writer’s byline and the name of the paper.
Said line?… continued…
It’s that time again, we’re opening our fourth annual fundraiser for Passports with Purpose. This year we’re supporting the literacy program Room to Read — I’ve written about why I like this cause here, but that’s not what I want to tell you about now. Right now, I want to tell you that I have something great to give away as part of the fundraiser. It’s a $1000 voucher from HomeAway, the vacation rental company.… continued…
I used to have a line in my bio that said I was “waiting for Conde Nast to call.” Well, that has happened, in a few different ways over the past few years, though please don’t think I was just sitting at home wishing, I actually did some things that caused it to happen. Anyway, it happened again recently, more in the original way I’d hoped for and now, I’m a regular contributor to Conde Nast Traveler’s The Daily Traveler.… continued…
This is webby meta stuff. If you’re not interested in that, why not read Eva Holland’s new piece on Vela Mag instead. It’s a great read.
“Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.”
– Groucho Marx
There was a bit of a flap amongst some travel bloggers last week. The issue? A post by John O’Nolan at a site called Travelllll. (I’ll call the site T5 going forward, I can’t bear typing that name over and over.) O’Nolan blasted bloggers who are selling links, telling them “If you sell paid links, you are less than worthless as a travel blogger, and you should be ashamed of yourself.” The post also threatened to expose link selling bloggers to T5′s readership.… continued…
