Where to Get Published: NewsDirectory.com
NewsDirectory.com is a great online tool for travel writers to find magazines and newspapers to publish their work. Writers can use the helpful zip code guide to discover more approachable, local, newspapers. They can also search by subject to find over 60 different travel themed magazines. Find out more…
What Do You Say to a Yachak?
It’s said that before a Yachak is born, the fetus cries in the womb. Yachaks are shamans here in Ecuador… healers. And, last Friday, as part of our Travel Photography Expedition, we set out to meet four of them. I wrote about a Shamanic Spa treatment here in Cotacachi earlier this year. See The Egg and…
Olympic Fuel Tip #13: Are You Writing With Voice?
Learn tips on how to establish your own voice in your writing to distinguish you from other writers. Find out how to capture editor’s attention from the beginning. Find out more…
Olympic Fuel Tip #12 – Can You Control Your Camera’s Focus?
I’m in Ecuador this week hosting our second photography expedition in Cotacachi this year. So, today’s “Olympic Fuel” tip comes from professional photographer, Rich Wagner, here with us. Rich offered up this “focus” tip to an attendee during our group photo review this morning. Take a close look at the photo below. The little boy…
3 Must-Have Travel Writing Tools (For Less Than $1)
Jen Stevens shares the three travel writing tools she can’t work without. Find out more…
Pristine Peace among Castles and Peaks in Banff, Canada
by Elaine M. StromThe sun’s brilliant mantle slowly descends over the shadow cloak of night, revealing the most majestic mountains on this earth. Welcome to Banff, Canada. Draw back the drapes, step out onto the balcony, and you will find an invigorating adventure along the Bow River and Bow Falls trails waiting below. Although these…
Superstition Mountain: Wildflower Wonder of Arizona
by Leanne MatzengerCampers, hikers, and horseback riders, eager to escape the congested streets of their hometowns, flock to the brilliant Superstition wilderness. Here, tiny lilac flower clusters dot the emerald hillside. Giant saguaro grow sky high, their ribbed branches bursting with white funnel-shaped flowers. And sporadic clumps of pale yellow grass grow haphazardly across rolling…
On the Scent of a Perfume River Boat Trip
by Mary Anne Lonze Sampans skim past, laden with heavy cargo that sinks their hulls into the murky brown water. Women cast circular fishing nets, then slap the water with paddles to attract fish into the traps.Children lie on wooden decks scribbling homework as a stove seeps tendrils of smoke under a weathered pot of pho.…
Into the Old West: Six Ways to Spend Your Silver in Tombstone
by Barbara-Jeanne Blank Like a mustang, Tombstone—Arizona’s “Town too Tough to Die”—was born on its feet. Silver built the town in the 1870’s in Apache country and silver still drives it … Apache silver and tourist silver. Here are your best bets for spending a little of your tourist silver while you’re in Tombstone: #1 Madame…
Peek Inside the Quirky Home of Carmel’s Rocky Poet
by Earl F. MartinelliA controversial poet, a scandalous divorce, a bizarre medieval-style stone tower, a love story unparalleled, a perfect bed to die in, a life of self-sufficiency, and waves bashing the shoreline—all of this is yours when you tour Tor House and Hawk Tower, the former home of poet Robinson Jeffers and his family…
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