Travelers and Travel Writers – pay attention! If you missed the Travel Blog Exchange on July 26, you missed some important stuff. Not only did we get some great ideas for building our blog but we made some fabulous contacts and got some cool swag. Keep reading if you want some cool swag too!
Kristain of Londonelicious is going to hook us up with some cheap eats next time we’re there.
Sandy of Travels with Sandy actually quit her job so she could travel. How cool is that?
Mary Ann of Enchanted-Traveler spends a few weeks each year in France and Kiratiana actually lived in Paris – and she’s blogging about how to do that for yourself.
Chris of Amateur Traveler has been podcasting about his travels for four years and shred some great insights both about travel and about capturing good video.
Amber of Mile High Mamas is cool just because she’s from Denver – we’re big fans of Colorado!
Heather is a flight attendant and shared some pretty hilarious stories from her Galley Gossip column on Gadling.
Linda writes about travels with children at MinneMom and wow, she has some serious detail in those posts. You’ll know where to go, how to get there, where all the good snacks are and everything.
Jeff of Savvy Navigator plans some awesome luxury tours for his gay clients. And we do mean awesome!
Kristin was there to represent the Chicago Office of Tourism who operates the awesome @exploreChicago on Twitter. Anything you need Chicago info just ask @exploreChicago and they’ll hook you up.
Jessie and Ed were there from Wandering Educators and were great to meet up with.
Kelly of Travellious was there after several days on the road as part of the TBEX Road Trip. Kelly likes to travel rebelliously. We’re not quite there but we get it and we love it!
Donna of My Itchy Travel Feet writes for baby boomers who travel and she tweeted pretty much all of TBEX.
We also met folks from Vail Resorts who want us to come and visit and so many other people we can’t even list them all.
If you want to feel like you were there, here’s one opportunity – we’re giving away one of our Travel Blog Exchange Swag Bags.
Here’s what you’ll get –
- a Hertz laptop friendly backpack,
- an Energizer battery charger and batteries,
- a Boingo luggage tag and free try of Boingo internet,
- a free session of GoGo Inflight Internet,
- a bunch of the new Starbucks Via brew,
- an Ask Arthur Frommer book,
- a Tots-on-the-Go first aid kit,
- a Savvy Navigator luggage tag,
- a stainless steel TravelPod water bottle,
- a free level one language lesson from Rosetta Stone,
- a tugo cupholder for your suitcase,
- a $10 gift certificate and free shipping from Minimus.biz,
- a CD of the Indie Travel Podcast and
- a Hotels.com thumb drive.
In addition we picked up -
- a BootsnAll t-shirt (black, size large, men’s style),
- a BootsnAll sticker and
- a GoGo Inflight Internet luggage handle wrap.
In order to enter, please leave a comment with your name (we don’t want anonymous winners!) telling us your favorite travel destination and why you like it so much. We’re planning some trips and want some good ideas, so give us your best. You can gain an extra entry by tweeting about our contest, featuring a link to this post and our name, @Travel_Notebook.
The contest is open to anyone. You don’t have to be a travel blogger, you don’t have to live in the US. Now, start commenting! Contest ends at 12pm CST on Monday, August 3, 2009.
