Searching for Seasoned Travel bloggers

Take a look at Ake Och Emma who was recently a blogger of the week. One more recommendation is needed to stay on the front page. This blogger has been a member since 2006 and has published more than 90 blogs. A keen eye for photography.


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Beebe A 5 year member with 170 published blogs.

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Jackie and Chris have published 70+ blogs and are now touring the US.
jackieandchris2011 I wish we had realized they were in San Francisco. It would have been great to hook up with them.

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I have spent the last year writing about every trip I have taken since my conception in China in 1949...the Chinese believe that my life began then. So far I have published 160 entries containing 163 thousand words and 4831 pictures. Amazingly I have found pictures for all trips except three. Digitizing all these slides and prints has been quite an exercize! I have six blogs to go from the year 1993 before I am up to date, although I may add more entries for trips we have taken around Colorado and the Southwest.

Out of curiosity, I recently counted the countries I have lived in and visited. I've lived in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the United States, Germany and Belgium, and visited 57 for a total of 63. Being a goal driven person, I decided to set my goal for 100 countries.

As a consequence fo setting this goal, for my 40th Anniversary in 2012, rather than flying directly to New Zealand Linda and I decided to fly to Honolulu and take a cruise from there to Sydney via American Samoa, Samoa, Fiji (although I was there at the age of 3 on my way to Australia), Vanuatu, and three islands in French Caledonia, which will give me a good start towards the goal.

So while travelbloggers shouldn't set such trivial goals, but just travel for the sake of travel, for learning about other peoples and cultures, and for self awareness, I have basically done all of that. I am intimately familiar with a wide range of cultures, speak four languages, and I know myself. I now look forward to visiting more places as a consequence of having set a goal. Most places will be short visits. But I did that when I first explored Europe...visiting over a dozen countries in 21 days with the Eurailpass. But short visits often lead to long visits, and we lived 18 years in Europe.

In the fall of 2013, having lived in Western Europe for 18 years, we plan to visit Central and Eastern Europe including Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia.

Early in 2014, having never been to this continent, we plan to visit South America, traveling by land and air from Equador, Peru, Bolivia, to Chile, and from there taking another cruise around the southern end of the continent to the Falkland Islands, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil.

At the end of 2014, to celebrate my 65th birthday, we should reach 100 countries by visiting the island nations in the Caribbean and Central American countries.

During these three years I also plan to volunteer to do some surveying for a charitable organization that plans and designs clinics and schools in several countries in Africa.

So while my journeys to date will be entered within the next couple of weeks, I will be continuing to blog for at least the next three years. I would be pleased to hear from fellow bloggers about their reactions to my travels to date, and my future travels. Reply to this

For those who are not familiar with how to nominate a Blogger for the Blogger of the Week award, what you do is post on the following thread the Blogger you want to nominate, or else add your nomination for one that is already on the list. All Bloggers on the list are possible future Blogger of the Week award winners so add your nomination for any of the ones already nominated, if you like their blogs. :)

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We are enjoying reading all of these seasoned bloggers for a couple of reasons. One they have shown a commitment to travel blog...... and they have had time to perfect their writing style.
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Another world traveler who has published 90+ blogs. Reply to this

By popular demand, Bob and Linda are going to be getting an award on Friday. They will be the next Blogger of the Week. :)
Congratulations in advance, Bob and Linda! :)

And, looks like your next blogs will be Featured on the Front Page, now that you have the 5 recommends required. Be sure to have at least 500 words and 4 photos in each blog, as those are the other requirements for the blogs to get on the Front Page these days. :) Reply to this

In response to: Msg #148414 Wow! Thanks again. I hope to post a blog on my Spring vacation trip to Cornwall as my inaugeral post! Reply to this

How have we missed The JacksonCrabbs 110 blogs and going strong.
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