Recently, I was contacted by a new online women’s travel magazine, Girls that Roam with a request to post a contest notice for their first annual International Women’s Travel Survey. While I admit, I don’t know much more about the site, other than it’ll be launching late this year, the ideals around sound pretty GRRR! and who doesn’t love contests to win free trips to exotic places? So here you are and good luck to all:
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Will You Be Visited by House Hunters Next?
Hey Expats in Kimchi-land and beyond! Wanna give folks back home a peek into what shopping for a home in a foreign country takes?
Hit television show ‘House Hunters International‘ (currently showing on the Homes and Gardens Network in America) is casting for a new series. If you are looking for or have recently bought a home abroad, they would like to put your story on TV!
The travel show is looking for energetic people, couples and families to share their story about (more…)
The GRRRL TRAVELER CHALLENGE #2 CONTEST:
It’s a 3-day contest, so hurry- it will end soon!
As a Producer-Shooter for reality TV- it’s often been my job to produce what I think would be entertaining challenges for a show. So this contest is to see what you think would make a cool GRRRL TRAVELER travel blog or v-log episode. Seeing as my GRRRL TRAVELER Challenge #2 is to live and move abroad and my destination country is South Korea–
What do you think would be the coolest, craziest or greatest GRRRL TRAVELER Challenge for me to try while living in South Korea?
List your thoughts– you can list more than one– in the Comments section below or email them to me. I will select the one I like best and in the future, you just never know…
Deadline: Wednesday, Dec 10th, 12P EST.
The gamble we take in following dreams is that we are never certain of the outcome; yet, a staid and sensible path can be just as uncertain.
Finding the GRRR to embark upon bold new adventures, which remove us from trusted and worn paths, can feel both terrifying and exhilarating. Terrifying, because we must call upon our self-belief to guide us through “the unpredictable and unknown”. Exhilarating, as we are released from our own self-created prisons and given freedom to grow towards our passions, experience new challenges or changes within ourselves and to create a lifestyle that is potentially more meaningful and extraordinary.
When our country’s recession created a drag in my career as Shooter-Producer of reality TV shows, I (more…)
Back from my GRRRL TRAVELER beginner solo trip with lots of cool experiences to share from Thailand and what I’ve learned about being on the solo road! Everything from mastering squat toilets and cold showers while trekking in the mountains, eating bugs, drinking tiger penis soaked whiskey in Laos, smoking with Buddhist monks, practicing circle 8′s with a guesthouse owner’s motorbike so I could rent a scooter, getting lost virtually …everywhere and more. I have the promise of upcoming tips and advice for beginning GRRRL soloists like myself, the leak of a GRRRL TRAVELER contest and challenge#2, and much much more…
Firstly, a shout out of warm Mahalos to all the friends following my fun updates on Facebook (sorry Twitterverse- you got gyped some…). Special Mahalos to those who super-caring and supportive of my first solo-solo and who went of their way to make (more…)
There are two fears to my becoming a first time female solo traveler. Unless I find a way to deal with these saboteurs, my solo travel plans are still-born and I will not clear my hurdle.
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