English Teacher Turned Travel Writer: Interview with AWAI Workshop Attendee Lucy Brown
Read how AWAI Workshop Attendee Lucy Brown became a successful travel writer. Click here to how Lucy can work from anywhere in the world...
Reader Success: Get Published for the First Time
Chava attended the AWAI Ultimate Travel Writer's Workshop in Chicago earlier this month and has already seen her first travel article published. With no experience whatsoever, Chava followed every bit of advice she picked up from the workshop and it worked! Click to see how she did it, and get her two most valuable pieces of advice...
Visiting Cemeteries for Travel Articles, Strange Travel Tip #8
As part of our Strange and Bizarre Travel Tip Series, I’d like to encourage you from now on to visit cemeteries every time you travel. It’s a great way to examine local culture, religion, art, and history. They make for good photographs, too. Great fine art prints. And if there’s a story behind the gravestones, great editorial shots, too. Click here to check out these strange and unusual cemeteries around the world…
Eight Odd Museums of the World, Strange Travel Tip #7
As part of our Strange and Bizarre Travel Tip Series, today’s tip is about strange places to see around the world -- eight odd museums. Click here to read more...
Travel Tip: Eight Travel Uses for Ziploc Bags
8 Travel Uses for Ziploc Bags. Ziploc bags are just as versatile and can even be used to keep your clothes wrinkle-free. Use them on your next trip to...
1. Keep your important documents together -- your passport and boarding pass while you’re hanging around the airport, for example.
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Eight Travel Uses for Dryer Sheets, Strange Travel Tip #5
Eight ways dryer sheets can help to make your travels smoother: 1. In storage: Between trips, keep dryer sheets in your luggage bags to avoid the musty smells of basements, attics, and garages. Click here to read more...
Arrival Rituals, Strange Travel Tip #4
Read and share travel arrival rituals, click here to see more...
Never Be Stuck for a Toilet, Strange Travel Tip #3
Strange Travel Tip 2: Go-go girl: female urination device allows you to pee while standing up, discreetly and hygienically. Click here to read more...
Keep Your Wine Bottles Safe in Transit, Strange Travel Tip #2
Have you ever wanted to bring a bottle of wine home from your travels...but worried it would smash in your luggage? Pack Swimmies next time.
How Hamsters Beat Jet Lag, Strange Travel Tip #1
Click here to see strange and unusual travel tips, and stay tuned for more strange and unusual travel tips coming up this week.
First-Class Flight Secret #3: Instant VIP Airport Perks from this Rewards
Mileage reward credit cards are a great way to earn free flights – so long as you don’t run a balance on the card. The interest rates are high, and if you run a balance, the perks are not really free anymore. Click here to read tips about the perks you get from one rewards credit card...
Three Creative Ideas for Turning a Trip to Asia into an Adventure
We’ve talked about ways you can fly up front for less this week. I’d like to talk about more creative ways to travel. Click here for three creative ideas for turning a trip to Asia into an adventure...
Trips to Take in the U.S. for $1,000 or Less
With our Leading Tours for Fun and Profit Program, we include a guide called Weird and Wacky Hotels of the World. Today, take a look at these weird and wacky places to go in and around the U.S. for $1,000 or less. Click here to read more.
Steenie Harvey’s Top Picks: Trips to Take for $1,000 or Less
Freelance travel writer Steenie Harvey has been all around the world. So I asked her where she’d want to go on a limited budget and she sent me the below four destinations you can explore for $1,000 or less…
Eat It So Your Readers Don’t Have To
In Chicago, Steenie told a funny story about some of the different foods she’s tried around the world. It makes for good cocktail conversation, that’s for sure. But these things have also earned her a nice check. “Eat it so your readers don’t have to,” she said. “And editors will pay you for it.” See her article below about travel stories based on odd foods and torturous pilgrimages…
