I’ve been hopping over at one of my other blogs, the Perceptive Travel Blog, where I’m a co-author.
Dynamic Australian blogger Darren Rowse, who runs the ProBlogger site, has a Group Writing Project going on — I’m one of , oh, over 370 submissions so far on the topic “Top 5.” It can be “Top 5″ of anything, which is great because that means an enormous variety of blogs can participate.
My own post was Top Five Travel Blogs You Gotta Read, featuring the Perrin Post by Conde Nast Traveler magazine’s Consumer Travel Editor Wendy Perrin, hilarious travel writer Leif Pettersen’s Killing Batteries, Budget Travel Online‘s useful blog This Just In…., New Zealand writer Liz Lewis’ My year of getting published and three blogs at CHOW, the online food magazine.
For Day One and Day Two of the Project, I looked for posts that were travel-related, but since there were so many interesting ones, I got rather distracted. For your reading pleasure, here are my faves:
Five gems: what makes a good pub? by Michael Scott (well, of course I picked this one.)
Top 5 Steps to Securing your Data by Geoff R (“got backup?”)
The Top Five Firsts of the First Two Years of the American Civil War by Mike Goad (this guy is seriously into the Civil War.)
Top 5 Techniques for Sermon Idea Generation by Sherman Haywood Cox II (a whole blog on being a preacher.)
Top 5 Reasons Why We Travel by Timen
Top 5 Spanish Tapas by Matthew Bennett
The Top 5 Reasons to Start Your Weight Loss Plan Today by JoLynn Braley Top 5 Reasons Freelancing is a Bad Idea by Mike Sieber
Top 5, mojich pät najlep’ích ucitelov by Peter Druska (’cause I have to give props to bloggers in Slovakia)
The Top 5 Reasons To Make Nova Scotia Your Next Vacation Destination by Bryan Henry
Top 5 Unusual Guitars Owned by Popular Musicians by Adam Ferguson
Top Five Languages I Would Like to Learn by Darrell Pursiful
The Top 5 Time Savers in My Kitchen by Maricar
Top 5 Gardening Tips by Kenny Point
Since Sunday, 13 May is Mother’s Day in the U.S.: 5 Gifts for Mom That Won’t Ever Go Out of Fashion by ispf
Jackie Chan’s Greatest Fight Scenes by Chris (reminded me of Hong Kong.)
Top 5 Great Birding Moments by Trevor Hampel (all over Australia)
5 Top Myths Foreigners Have About Ukraine by Alexander Radich
5 Top Things I Miss About Harare, Zimbabwe by Sharon
What Are Your Top 5 Travel Dreams? by Stacy
5 Reasons Queen’s Market Must Be Saved by Jon Tillman (an East Londoner’s point of view)
Top 5 DC Things To Do This Summer by Francoise Galleto (Washington, DC)
I’m a stranger here myself by Jul (an expat sees her home with new eyes)
5 best places to go while visiting Acadia National Park by Norman Sargent (a popular US park in Maine)
Top 5 Australian beach locations for the IT commuter by Vincent McBurney (finding that life balance)
My Five Most Awestruck Travel Experiences by Steve Madsen
Top 5 most entertaining foreign films of the last decade by Jithin Jerald
Top Five Strategies For Travelling Light by Graham Barker
and finally, Top 5 Monkey Songs by Martin Breton (Obvious travel tie-in, right?)
Go ahead and read through them; I’ll wait here. 
(This was originally posted at my Kid Trippin’ blog, on Disney’s Family.com.)
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Hi there – thanks for visiting my birding blog and for making a link back. I actually write for three blogs, one of them being a travel blog. I write about my travels in Australia, Thailand and Nepal. You might be interested in visiting -
http://www.trevorstravels.com/
very interesting competition. uhmm.. although I know I can write my own top 5 of any thing, maybe I’ll just join next year…
good luck!
Thanks for including my article! I am glad you like it!
Hi Trevor,
Thanks for visiting; I look forward to seeing your blog.
Hi Rcon,
It’s not too late to participate this year! Took a quick look at your blog — wish I could visit Marrakech.
Hi Geoff,
I think I was drawn to it because I feel so guilty that I haven’t properly backed up my own systems!
A wonderful wealth of information…so glad that I stopped to check it out!!
Becca
Charleston South Carolina Real Estate
Sheila,
Thanks very much for the link to my post on weight loss!
I have also found myself getting sidetracked by all of the different topics while looking for ones related to health. I’ve been extremely busy reading this week and I’m no where near reading 893.
I’m still going, though.
JoLynn
thanks for viewing my site..
although I wanna join in the SOBcon, I don’t have the time. WORK. need I say more? 
Thank you for mentioning my article about myths that foreigners have about Ukraine. I am excited by travel sites of different kind.
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