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Three Travel Bites of the Week

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Here are Three Travel Bites of the Week for your consumption:

1. I am insanely excited about STA’s World Traveler Internship. Through an extensive selection process, two interns will be chosen to travel to 8 different countries from Brazil to Japan in the span of 3 months. They must document every aspect of the trip through video, photographs, blog posts, or interviews with guides and fellow travelers to inspire young people and students to get out there and travel. I am definitely going to enter and give it a shot and you should check it out too at http://www.worldtravelerintern.com/.

2. BBC’s MyWorld competition wants to know how you see the world. People from every continent are eligible to submit a two-minute documentary to share their unique perspective on life, whether it be positive, negative, static, or evolving. If you have a special story to tell then you can learn more about the competition at http://tr.im/Muky. Your video could be selected to be shown online and on BBC World news to prove that there is no one way of looking at life.

3. Do you want to be a constant nomad but still maintain a successful career? Brazen Careerist and the Matador Network are teaming up to help you find that balance. They are conducting a location-independent lifestyle webinar. “Career-advice expert, author, columnist and speaker Penelope Trunk will teach you how to build a career that fits the nomadic lifestyle of travelers and travel writers / photographers / filmmakers.” This webinar is free and is on February 10th at 9pm EST. For more information and to register visit http://tr.im/MLzF.

Have a good weekend!

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Three Travel Bites of the Week

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Every Friday I’ll post links to travel news of the week that I think is worth a glance:

1. First up, you can vote for your favorite travel blog in the 2010 Weblog Awards. The top five finalists are Go Backpacking, Camels & Chocolate, The Vacation Gals, A Traveler’s Library, and Everything-Everywhere. Go to http://2010.bloggies.com/to read up and cast your vote for the best travel blog of the year by Sunday, January 31st.

2. Charyn Pfeuffer is an amazing woman. Her Global Citizen Project is to tackle “12 community projects in 12 countries over 12 months” to not only do her part and give back to the world but more specifically to give something back to the people and places that are the all important backbone of travel. She cannot do this alone though and needs your help. If you can either donate  to her cause or just plain spread the word through your blog, Twitter, Facebook or whatever, it would be most appreciated. Visit globalcitizenproject.blogspot.com to learn more.

3. David Lee, Editor-in-Chief of GoBackpacking.com and MedellinLiving.com, is sharing his 3 years of travel blogging experience with the rest of the travel community through http://travelblogsuccess.com/. The online course starts on February 1st and you can go to the site now to sign up. If you want to improve your travel blog this is an amazing opportunity to learn from one of the best bloggers out there right now.

Happy Friday!

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Learning AFAR

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When I graduated from college in 2007 I had one goal in mind and that was to travel, but for most of my fellow graduates their goals were to either go to graduate school or get a full-time job. While I was actually travelling, I did not run into many Americans either but mostly young twenty-somethings from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. It made me sad to think how few Americans I was bumping into on the road because I truly felt they were missing out on an amazing experience that could change their outlook on the world and themselves for the better. I write this blog to remind people, especially young people like myself,  how important it is to take time away from classes and jobs to travel and I am happy to see that the AFAR Foundation in partnership with Global Explorer have launched Learning AFAR to educate youth about travel.

I first heard about AFAR magazine in August while I attended the Book Passage Travel Writer’s and Photographer’s Conference. Their first issue was just about to debut and it was filled with articles focused on the authenticity of travel instead of the commercialization of countries that stereotypical tourists gravitate towards. The magazine is just one component of AFAR Media which is working on TV, radio, book, and event projects. Learning AFAR is just one more of their ventures and probably one of the most important as it will soon start working with high school students in New York and San Francisco in a year-long program to educate them in leadership, service, and cultural tolerance in order to prepare them for a trip to Costa Rica. Several students who cannot otherwise afford the trip will also be given scholarships. I think this is such an important program because it will open students’ eyes to how other parts of the world live and in turn change their perspectives on how they live their own lives – a  lesson like that is just as valuable as any math or science class, if not more.

For more information about Learning AFAR or to donate to this worthy foundation visit http://www.globalexplorers.org/programs/learning_afar/

To learn more about AFAR and their products visit www.afar.com

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