2012 TravelBlog Hall of Fame

Congratulations everyone - welcome to the TravelBlog Hall of Fame - on our 10th anniversary year!

This year we recognize 32 amazing bloggers, each of differing style, all representing high quality and long term commitment.

To anyone who is new to travelblog - read their blogs - this is what Travel Blog is all about! Real people traveling, sharing the experience, often discovering a passion for writing and photography on the way.

If you're reading this and are wondering why a particular blog is not included - we have around 300,000 accounts now and we are bound to have missed some amazing stories. Please let us know about them in March next year, nominate them for blogger of the week and in the meantime recommend them.

Ali - writing from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia - 3rd April 2012

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Congratulations to the following bloggers who have been inducted into the TravelBlog Hall Of Fame. We'll be adding the awards to profile pages over the next few days, and also adding them to The TravelBlog Hall of Fame.

2012 TravelBlog Hall Of Fame

bvchef - Great entries from South America, now he's looking for new adventures

Chris and Amy - more than 2 years on the road, beautiful writing and some amazing photos.

Chris and Nikki - feeding their travel addiction and renewing wedding vows one country at a time.

Beata and Tomek - enjoying adventure on their long anticipated round the world trip.

Forget 9 to 5 - a search to fulfill the Pommie pipedream of living it up in the sun

Andy and Debbie - Asia and Oceania - with humour and great photos

ThreeFitty - a photographic talent discovered as he explored foreign lands

deleted_49612 - email style blog from an Irish ex-pat

Cessna152 - closing in on the goal of 100 countries visited

FreeSpirit - 34 months on the road and counting

Tom Rooney - living a lifetime passion exploring foreign countries

tannismc - Geology student who happens to take some pretty good photos too

Home and Away - a lifetime of travel, and planning for years more

Theroadiscalling - more than three years of planning, a year on the road and counting

International backpacker - budget travellers who prefer visiting locals rather than local attractions

rrruss - after travelling South America, they're back on the road again

lmh - enjoying the pleasures of semi-retirement by travelling

John Miranda - from watching The Ashes to touring the globe

Patricia Somewhere - on a mission to go, see, taste and smell the world

kateemarie - stories from a frequent resident of Senegal

ShadyAdy - not only a traveller but a walker for charity

Wanderly Wagon - inspired by a childhood television show to see the planet

Overlanders - an Aussie and Kiwi extensively exploring the northern hemisphere

Susurros somnolientos - a self-absorbed misanthropic humanist taking on the world

Synnott - visited every continent and even blogs in two languages

RoelAnka - travelling and photographing through the Americas and other continents

Quarter Life Crisis - a witty and irreverent account of avoiding responsibility by hiding in the middle of nowhere

Vietna mum - a dedicated traveller assisting homeless children in Vietnam

colvinyeates - their second around the world journey keeps getting better

deleted_183365 - a prolific blogger whose writing energy knows no bounds

Gus C - an Australian who is enamoured of photography, food and faraway lands

Lump - tales of a traveller now residing in Ethiopia


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This is an incredible honour. I am very happy and cannot believe you think I am worth being on that list of great bloggers. I hope to write many more blogs in the next 50 years.

Hope to see you down the road.

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thank you very much for the this;-) such honor !!! we are amazed that we made the list and so happy that people enjoy our adventures;-) congratulations to all of the above!!!
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Oh my, what a nice surprise 😊 It is great to be on a list with so many wonderful and inspirational travelers, writers and photographers. Thanks to all behind the scenes for making this wonderful travel site a reality!
And Jason, maybe see you here in Africa somewhere 😊
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I've also been receiving numerous private messages in response to the Hall of Fame notifications I sent on Saturday - it is satisfying to be the bearer of such happy news 😊

As mentioned by Ali, please do make an effort to read these bloggers. I was unaware of some until needing to send them the congratulatory messages, so I paused to read and admire their blogs. We have some extremely talented writers, photographers and travellers on this site, and for that we should be extremely thankful. Reply to this

I also got Shane's private message with the notification and responded there, but I did want to thank all the Moderators publicly for this honor to be among the select few inducted into the Hall of Fame. I'm also pleased that the general response from each of us is appreciation for Travelblog as the friendliest forum to share our passion for travel...and to get us thinking about and planning our next trip.

Following Ali's suggestion I have already started reading and then following some of those on the list. All are great blogs; so I continue to read.

Next year's cohort will rival this year's as for ability to write and take pictures, and a commitment to friendship via the various Forums. I have already written my list of who to nominate (or second) and can hardly wait for next March to roll around. Reply to this

Congratulations to you all, guys!!

It's really excited to be nominated by other members, I think it makes you feel appreciated... when we got into the HoF a couple of years ago I was so happy that I was telling everyone I knew... many didn't know what I was talking about because, even though they are on my email notification list and they receive an email whenever I publish a blog, most of them don't even read them, so I was really, really happy that other bloggers and travelers liked what I was writing


I've been following some of you already and I'll definitely make sure that I start reading the ones I haven't yet!
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Congratulations to everyone added! This has been a great post for us as we have found out some new fantastic bloggers, as well as recognising many that we have read in the past!

Special congrats to Chris and Nikki, Home and Away, Forget 9 to 5, Chris and Amy and over landers some of our favourites!! Reply to this

I, too, am delighted to have been inducted into the TravelBlog Hall of Fame. It's a great feeling to be recognised amongst so many other wonderful writers and photographers (past and present). TravelBlog rules! Keep up the good work everyone, and let's help propel further growth in the marketplace for the world's friendliest travel site. Reply to this