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Well, hurray for success the second time around….
Last year, I sent in a proposal for a travel blogging panel at SXSWi (the South by Southwest Interactive tech/online media conference) here in Austin, Texas, but it was not selected.
I only pouted for about a week, really.
Always bull-headed, I tried again this year and re-submitted my proposal, since I figured that it was a good idea that deserved another try.
The conference organizers apparently agreed; I just got an email telling me that Blog Highways: Travel Blogging for the Wanderer is on the docket for the next SXSWi, to be held in downtown Austin March 13-17, 2009.
My outstanding co-presenter will be writer/photographer Pam Mandel – she is the BlogHer Travel Editor, writes and takes photos on Nerd’s Eye View and corrals a lively crew of bloggers on the Travelblogger’s Forum.
There will be a gaggle of experts in the audience as well to lend their insights and advice; I hear that Condé Nast Traveler’s Wendy Perrin may attend, and Leif Pettersen of Killing Batteries unless he’s stuck in Italy during March updating the Lonely Planet Guide to Tuscany (let’s see….Austin or Tuscany? Hmmm, tough call.)
Thanks to all who have supported this idea and left wonderfully supportive comments through two Panel Picker iterations, and I look forward to seeing all of you in person at “South by.”
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During the China 2.0 Tour, our blogger gaggle took the “soft sleeper” overnight train from Beijing to Shanghai, China. We left at about 7:30 pm at night from Beijing and arrived Shanghai at 7 am.
In China, perfect strangers share four-person compartments (both men and women together) but we re-jiggered compartment assignments as much as we could to have at least a few of our 2.0 Tour bloggers in the same compartment.
I shared with two very nice Chinese passengers and the ever-buoyant and enjoyable David Feng.
We had dinner aboard the train and I slept like the proverbial log. Something …
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You know what drives travel bloggers crazy?
We don’t have time to blog when we travel.
I mean, we do only if we don’t sleep.
Sure, just gather info all day, take notes, shoot video, shoot photos, then spend all night drafting blog posts, uploading/grooming/tagging video, uploading/grooming/tagging photos and launching all of that info out into the blogosphere.
Just add a lot of Red Bull to your life, right?
I’ve been here in China (on the China 2.0 Tour) since November …
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After a long flight to Beijing for the China 2.0 Tour, I went with a group of our “old China hands” to find a foot massage/reflexology place as a way to attack everyone’s jet lag.
We ended up in a three-story foot emporium, a chain business in China, called Liangzi.
We split up into groups of three.
Elliott Ng of travel search …
[more]While on my way to Beijing to start the China 2.0 Tour, I came out of my arrival gate at SFO, the San Francisco CA airport, and saw a tornado.
No, not a real one, thank goodness, but a cool demonstration of tornadic activity and weather in a play area for children called the Kid’s Spot. It’s in Terminal 3, Boarding Area F, in a mostly United Airlines part of the Terminal.
One little girl who played in the tornado told me that there is a very similar device, on a larger scale, in the city at San Francisco’s …
[more]Author Jen Leo, who has been an outstanding travel writer and blogger for many years, is about to become a new mother (congrats, Jen!)
She started an interesting thread over on Twitter Moms asking about recommendations for baby travel gear.
How many of those gizmos and gadgets does a traveling parent really need?
Take a look at the thread; many experienced folks have weighed in and they have some good advice.
My input would be a thumbs-up for baby slings rather than strollers. Slings are so much easier to use when you’re navigating a city or any public transportation, they leave …
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