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Already know about Passports with Purpose? Skip to the picture of shiny ribbons for FOUR gift shopping discounts !! Well we did it–4 founders up in Seattle, some big donor sponsors, and lots of donors of prizes, including Hotel Monteleone, Interlink Books and MacMillan Audio. And YOU who bid on prizes. The bidding closed last [...]
PDF Passports With Purpose–Libraries in Zambia It’s Passports With Purpose time again. Travel bloggers around the world join forces to raise money for a single worthy cause. You can see all the details in my last post about the launch of PwP. This is a reminder, you have just two weeks to bid on the fantastic [...]
We, a far-flung group of travel writers under the leadership of the 4 cupcakes from Seattle–Pam Mandel, Debbie Dubrow, Beth Whitman and Michelle Duffy, have contributed to Heifer International, built a school in Cambodia, and built a village in India. Travel writers, like all travelers, tend to see both the beautiful sights of the world [...]
Jennifer Close–mom, educator, writer, traveler– who writes Two Kids and a Map, has agreed to write about family travel at least once a month for A Traveler’s Library. Jennifer is the only one of the new contributors I did not know when we started our adventure, but she was recommended by a family travel writer [...]
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Today we get to know a bit more about our Culture Travel Tuesday contributor, Dr. Jessie Voigts. Regular readers of A Traveler’s Library are familiar with Jessie, since she has been an almost monthly contributor for many moons. She has been bringing us synopses of interviews with authors from her wonderfully useful website Wandering Educators. [...]
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We’re kicking off this month’s Contributor’s week by interviewing my friend Kerry Dexter. She’s your friend, too, if you read A Traveler’s Library Great American Road Trip last year, because she provided the musical accompaniment for each and every place we visited. I enjoyed that partnership with Kerry so much and also am always delighted [...]
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Two weeks ago, you met five new contributors to A Traveler’s Library. Today you meet a SIXTH. Brette Sember will be joining us each month for a feature called Tasty Travel. Do you plan your trips around food? Do you find yourself talking about the food on the trip when you get home? Do you like [...]
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Unfortunately, we only had one night in Honfleur, the lovely little Norman seaside town that attracts summer vacationers by the droves. It was no longer summer when we arrived, and the chilly wind sent us scurrying off the street and bending over a huge black pot of moules for dinner at a seaside restaurant. The [...]
Likin’ the New Stuff at A Traveler’s Library
NEW COLLEAGUES AT THE LIBRARY I hope you are enjoying the new contributors to A Traveler’s Library as much as I am. You have now met five of the current six contributors who are bringing you new reasons to travel and new resources. Kerry talked about Nova Scotia Music on Monday; Jessie talked about Scottish [...]
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