{"id":4041,"date":"2010-11-29T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2010-11-29T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T16:36:13","slug":"passports-with-purpose-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/29\/passports-with-purpose-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Passports with Purpose Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are going along swimmingly with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passportswithpurpose.com\">Passports with Purpose<\/a>, the annual travelbloggers fundraiser. We&#8217;ve got, what, a hundred or so participating bloggers, we&#8217;re about 11k short of our goal, and the stuff this year, oh, the stuff is amazing. I don&#8217;t get to participate &#8212; as a founder, in an attempt to make sure that everything is on the level and that we look squeaky clean, I&#8217;m not allowed to bid for prizes. And oh, that just kills me.\u00a0 See, I have two great prizes to give away:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/holoholowale.com\/2010\/11\/15\/enjoy-hawaii-do-something-good\/\">Three nights at an Aqua hotel in Waikiki<\/a> with lots of fun activities including a personal tour of the island&#8217;s best grinds with Nathan Kam.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/get-a-uke-build-a-village\/\">A Flea ukulele &#8212; not just my favorite starter uke, but a perfect travel companion.<\/a> (Seattle winner? I&#8217;ll give you a lesson to get you started, too!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But in addition to what I have to give away, there are other amazing things you might take away, all in exchange for a ten dollar donation to this year&#8217;s beneficiary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passportswithpurpose.com\/about\/\">LAFTI<\/a>. It&#8217;s not easy for me to narrow it down to my personal favorites, but I&#8217;m going to give it a shot.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For most bizarre transportation, you can&#8217;t beat Caitlin&#8217;s zeppelin tour over San Francisco. Amazing. On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roamingtales.com\/2010\/11\/15\/pwp-airship-california\/\">Roaming Tales<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a tie for that oddball combination of wacky and sweet between Mike&#8217;s Sky Mall gift card on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/2010\/11\/15\/skymall-passportswithpurpose\/\">Gadling<\/a> and Harriet&#8217;s three ounce extravaganza on <a href=\"http:\/\/stuckattheairport.com\/2010\/11\/16\/feeling-elfish-help-build-a-village-in-india\/\">Stuck at the Airport<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Yes, I AM going to eat the whole thing. Now back off.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wandermom.com\/giving-a-helping-hand\/chocolopolis-supports-passports-with-purpose-2010\/\">Wandermom<\/a> Michelle gets points for that Chocolopolis package, but anyone who&#8217;s been to my neighborhood knows that my heart &#8212; and my belly &#8212; belongs to the Bakery Nouveau prize hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novacationrequired.com\/2010\/11\/passports-with-purpose-build-a-village-and-eat-pastries\">No Vacation Required<\/a> guys, Kent and Canaan. (I love Bakery Nouveau even more for <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bakerynouveau.com\/post\/1584848399\/tis-the-season\">this<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t love trains, seriously, I don&#8217;t even know you. Charyn can help you keep railway history alive, maybe on an AstroTurf covered piece of plywood in your basement with her Golden Spike train set. It&#8217;s on\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/globalcitizenproject.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/passports-with-purpose-donate-now-and.html\">The Global Citizen Project<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Last, but so not least is that HomeAway Holiday-Rentals voucher. I loves me some vacation rentals, and 800 USD worth of vacation rentals is something I could get some serious mileage out of. Lara and Terrance have the details on <a href=\"http:\/\/grantourismotravels.com\/2010\/11\/17\/donate-money-win-a-home-away-build-a-village-in-india\/\">Gran Tourismo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Honorable mention to Corey at <a href=\"http:\/\/irishfireside.com\/2010\/11\/15\/city-and-country-ireland-getaway\/\">Irish Fireside<\/a> for the most glamorous video for the Ireland vacation package. That&#8217;s some mad promoting there! Wow!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you have to do to get a shot at this &#8212; and lots more &#8212; excellent stuff? Go to the Passports with Purpose site. Pick the things you want from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passportswithpurpose.com\/donate\/\">catalog<\/a>, and then, check out &#8212; it&#8217;s ten bucks for each entry. All that money, minus a small processing fee for PayPal, goes to LAFTI. 25 families in India get homes and you get&#8230; well, who knows. You get to help support Passports with Purpose, for starters. And maybe, just maybe, you&#8217;ll get something amazing, too, in return.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The entire PwP crew is so grateful for the support of our sponsors. Take the time to check out what they do. A big thank you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootsnall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BootsnAll<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemocha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LiveMocha<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtwwithus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Round the World with Us<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeaway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HomeAway<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travellerspoint.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Traveller\u2019s Point<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitionsabroad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transitions Abroad<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hihostels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hostelling International<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/quintess.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quintess<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raveable.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raveable<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TravelPost<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uptake.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uptake<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are going along swimmingly with Passports with Purpose, the annual travelbloggers fundraiser. We&#8217;ve got, what, a hundred or so participating bloggers, we&#8217;re about 11k short of our goal, and the stuff this year, oh, the stuff is amazing. I don&#8217;t get to participate &#8212; as a founder, in an attempt to make sure that &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Passports with Purpose Picks\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/29\/passports-with-purpose-picks\/#more-4041\" aria-label=\"Read more about Passports with Purpose Picks\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}