As part of Blogathon 2013, I’ve been posting to the Travel Browsing blog every day in June. And while the writing and research have been a lot of fun, so has stumbling upon interesting sites, blogs, and stories. Here’s a short round-up of just some of the online articles I found especially helpful this week: […]
Travel Tips
5 More Quick and Easy Travel Tips
Last Saturday I wrote about 5 quick and easy travel tips I learned that have been really helpful during flights and hotel stays. But that wasn’t nearly enough. So today I decided to post 5 more! 1) Take Stuff You Can Throw Away: Consider packing toiletries and clothes (such as older socks and underwear) that […]
5 Quick and Easy Travel Tips – Part 1
The summer travel season is upon us, which often means fighting crowds, negotiating plane delays, and crossing fingers that our luggage actually shows up at the same place and same time as we do. This year I think I’ll only have a total of 5 big trips, which is down significantly from years past when […]
Hanging with Travel Maven Samantha Brown
Since starting this new travel blog, I’ve really enjoyed checking out blogs from other travel writers to see how they present their stories. That’s how I recently stumbled upon the really fun and informative travel blog of former Travel Channel maven Samantha Brown. At her site, she has posted several clips and writes about destinations […]
5 Helpful Apps for Today’s Traveler
Today’s theme for the 2013 WordCount Blogathon is “favorite apps” — which proved a bit challenging for me at first because, well, I don’t use many apps. I mean to but there are soooo many and as a writer, I carry my laptop everywhere. So I end up using all kinds of cool programs on […]