May is officially Physical Fitness Month. Which means that the education world (at least here in the U.S.) celebrates national physical fitness and sport. With this and the upcoming controversial Summer Olympics in Beijing taking top slots in the news these days, I thought we could turn our creative attention to sport — hence this […]
Here’s the wine cellar at Denver’s Hotel Monaco. We’re going to have our Food Writing Workshop here, in the hotel where one of the best chefs of Denver works. And you bet we’ll be testing the food and wine. You know, for inspiration. [Editor’s Note: Learn more about opportunities to profit from your travels (and […]
If you’d like to get your photos published, one virtually painless way is to submit them to photo contests. Some contests accept thousands of submissions before they choose a winner… but if your shot takes first place, you could win an all-expenses-paid trip, a professional digital camera, your photo on the cover of a popular […]
Last week, when I woke up on my first morning in Quito, Ecuador, I pulled back the curtains on my hotel room window and looked out to see… an absolutely stunning view of the sunrise over the valley below. And I promptly kicked myself. I could have been up 20 minutes earlier and captured it […]
http://www.signspotting.com by Roberta Beach Jacobson in Karpathos, Greece How many times have you laughed over the ridiculous signs you’ve encountered on your travels? Well, keep that camera at the ready…because next time you spot a funny sign, you can send your photo to Signspotting.com. If they decide to publish your photo, they’ll pay you $50… […]
Get Paid to Travel! Become a Travel Writer Travel writing is quite possibly the best non-job in the world. It’s fun. It gives you an excuse to travel — and get paid to travel. It can bring with it instant “celebrity” status. (Just tell somebody that you write articles for magazines… and they’ll start looking […]
We’re making a lot of changes in the Travel Division this year. One change that I already told you about is that we’re branching out from straight “travel-related” opportunities to bring you other, related ones too — more ways you can make life fun and interesting (and get paid for it) — like food writing […]
We’re making a lot of changes in the Great Escape Publishing this year. One change that I already told you about is that we’re branching out from straight “travel-related” opportunities to bring you other, related ones too — more ways you can make life fun and interesting (and get paid for it) — like food […]
