2008 Archive
Observations
Stephen Greenwood is in Tanzania for 6 months, learning through experience about international aid, street children, corrupt orphanages, and the Tanzanian way of life.
The Best of TravelBlogs in 2008
2008 was a year of tremendous growth for TravelBlogs.com. If you’ve been following along for a while, you may have noticed a shift in focus around the middle of the year, as we started inviting the bloggers we feature to share their stories and advice in guest posts or panel discussions. As editor, I have enjoyed working behind the scenes, coming up with ideas and putting together some great – in my humble opinion – content.
With 2009 just around the corner, I thought I would share the 10 most popular articles on TravelBlogs in 2008.
Support Heifer International Through Passports With Purpose
If you follow the blogs featured here on TravelBlogs, you have probably already heard about Passports With Purpose. Created by Debbie Dubrow of DeliciousBaby, Pam Mandel of Nerd’s Eye View, Michelle Duffy of WanderMom and Beth Whitman of Wanderlust and Lipstick, Passports With Purpose is a fundraiser designed to raise money for Heifer International, an organization fighting hunger and poverty around the globe.
It’s a great organization, and one great fundraiser. Until the 29th of December, you can buy as many $10 raffle tickets as you want, and you’ll stand a chance to win some excellent prizes (listed here).
America In 100 Days
In May 2009, Tom, Sarah and Joey set out on a road trip across the United States. Their blog detailed their preparations before setting off, and their adventures on the road.
Travels with Baby
Shelly Rivoli wrote the book about travelling with a baby. Literally. On her blog she shares more tips about travelling with children.
The Top 3 Reasons For Couples to Pursue “L’Avventura”
To my husband Adam and me, “l’avventura” is the fine art of picking a place to go and seeing where we end up.
Some people might see this pursuit of adventure as a waste of money, elaborate chore avoidance, or even restless leg syndrome, but it works for us. More specifically, it works for our marriage.
Here’s why:
Love Letter to a Reluctant Traveler
So, maybe you and your better half are in a slump. You feel like you’ve tried to plead your case for a vacation, but your partner, in answer, has escalated from stolid indifference to eye rolling, whining to panic. When the emotions and excuses have faded, you’ve found yourself still in your home…waiting.
You remain convinced that making a plan to go somewhere, whether it’s close by or several time zones away, is the answer to rediscovering your passion — maybe even the sound of your own laugh.
If your partner could only see that it’s important to take time for yourselves, away from work, family, friends and chores, they might save not just your love but also their own life. Because if they don’t agree to take you away on a trip, for a few days, a week, or more…you may have to kill them as they lay sleeping.
Before it comes to that, consider handing them this letter.
Intrepid 101
Melanie McMinn is an American expat living in New Zealand, writing about adventure activities with an engaging style and a sharp sense of humour.
Uncornered Market
Dan and Audrey have been travelling the world since December 2006, when they abandoned their lives in Prague, Czech Republic for an extended sabbatical on the road. Their stories are accompanied by beautiful photography.
Monkeys With Suitcases: The Biological Imperative To Travel
It is in our genes, in our genetic code, to be explorers, adventurers and travellers. As life has evolved from the primordial ooze to the wide diversity that exists on our little blue-green rock today, at every step the beings that eventual evolved into us where the ones that got out there, took the chance and made a move. We are chance-takers by genetic necessity. If we weren’t, we would have died out, or evolved into something very different, like rhesus monkeys, sheep or catfish. Overall in evolution, survival of the fittest might rule, but when it comes to human evolution, it is survival of the most likely to pack a change of underwear, a toothbrush and take off down the road.
