Overall, I really like this new tool from Microsoft (http://smallbusiness.officelive.com). It’s easy. It’s free. And, it’s great for people with no web experience. If I had one gripe, it’d be that you can’t name your own links. The system decides your URL …and it’s not pretty (or easy to remember). The site I created is […]
Some people salivate at the phrase “luxury travel.” But what is luxury? Ramping prices to exclude the proletariat doesn’t indicate desirability to me. Even with a lottery win, I wouldn’t want to ski at Gstaad, play roulette at Monte Carlo, or blow $400 in a Michelin-starred restaurant. I get my share of travel writer freebies, […]
Buying two round-the-world tickets is easy enough when you’re paying for them with a single credit card. But when I booked our round-the-world tickets for our honeymoon I wanted to buy one ticket with my card and pay for the second one with air miles. The end result of booking this way? When we got […]
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 […]
Wanderlust is a British travel magazine with eight issues per year (http://www.wanderlust.co.uk). They cover independent and semi-independent travel, as well as special-interest travel. They love local culture angles… and want writers to go soft on adventure.
When your computer is running too slowly — taking forever to do what you’ve told it to do — you can make it work faster by “cleaning it up.” How? If your computer runs on Microsoft Windows, “free up some space” on your hard drive. Here’s what to do:
If you have an interest in, or have visited fortresses, museums, or fortified castles that have lots of old cannon lying around, you could easily send a story about them to The Artilleryman Magazine.
“A passion for living well” — that’s how the editors at Vezeo.com define the word “vezeo.” This online guide to “‘superior’ restaurants, hotels, resorts, day spas, and wineries” around the world doesn’t offer star or dollar-sign ratings like other guides. Instead, as the editors put it, “If it’s on Vezeo, it’s worth making the journey.”
One commonly overlooked place to send your travel stories is military magazines. Whether you have ties to the military, you’re a history enthusiast, or you simply enjoy museums and areas that might be of historic interest to soldiers and veterans, consider writing for a magazine like Airborne Quarterly. Calling itself “the voice of the American […]
