New Orleans
Time is running out for Passports With Purpose. My favorite New Orleans hotel stepped up for the third year in a row and offered a 3-night stay in the family-owned, French Quarter Hotel Monteleone for Passports With Purpose. Now, if you hang around Passports With Purpose very much, you know that cupcakes are a recurring [...]
Before you complain, let me make it clear that I know your intentions are purely altruistic. You are not concerned with winning anything. You are just focused on building two libraries in Zambia with Room to Read, so that kids who want to read will have a chance to do so. Just like you, they [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been to a few scary places while traveling–most of them because I got lost and wandered where I should not be. But today I’m thinking about scary places that people plan travel to–in Phoenix, Mansfield Ohio, and New Orleans.
Family Travel Friday Destination: Aquarium Book: Swimmy by Leo Lionni (1963) By Jennifer Close The mystery of the ocean never ceases to amaze children and adults alike. There is lots of information about the ocean, but there is still so much exploring to be done. I have been fascinated with the ocean, its inhabitants and [...]
Congratulations to Susan Johnston, writer of a blog for writers called The Urban Muse, for winning the YakPak student backpack that was part of our Christmas Giveaway. If you’re disappointed, stick around, we have another YakPak to give away in January.
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Destination: Anywhere Book: The Witching Hour (1993) by Anne Rice A GUEST POST BY Susan Lanier-Graham Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour helped me discover those elusive travel moments
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GOOOOD Morning To All the Winners of Passports With Purpose raffle prizes. Of course we know that the really big winners are all those lucky kids in Preah Vihear in Cambodia who will get a new school. But there are other winners, too. Everyone who donated through the raffle or otherwise, can feel really good [...]
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