Grantourismo Travel Blogging Competition: March

I really want to enter because I have an upcoming blog post that will fit in perfectly with this theme from our recent travels in Cambodia. BUT, here is the question: do I have to join your community on FriendConnect AND on Facebook in addition to subscribing via RSS? I try to keep Facebook solely for friends and not for website related issues and I don’t use FriendConnect because I don’t like the program. Do we need to use all three programs in order to be entered?

I’m very much looking forward to this! But I don’t use Google Friend Connect or check RSS. Can I do ONE of these or must I do ALL of them to be eligible? Looking to simplify… always simplify Cheers.

I’m getting ready to enter the competition. Did the twitter thing and the google thing, became a fan on facebook, but like others here have said, Friend Connect does not work. Do I still qualify?

I am using mozilla/firefox. Anyway, I tried my best to enter. Here is the link: http://thesinglewomantraveler.blgospot/com/2010/03/hood-downtown-miami.html.
I hope all works. I write regularly for in the know traveler, europe a la carte and http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/lilypond. Yes, I also go by the pen name of lilypond. I only have trouble with google friends.

Hi Lara,

I’ve tried Firefox and Safari and get this message:

We’re sorry…
We were unable to handle your request. Please try again or return a bit later

To be honest, I’ve never used FriendConnect. I thought maybe that’s why, so I signed up, but even after I’m logged in I get the same message. Does this really affect eligibility in the contest?

Hi Ant – love your post! It captures so well those chance encounters on the road! Although I would have loved to heard what you thought about Walpole – having passed through there ourselves

Ant, can you link to this specific post not to the site more generally? I need to make that clearer I think. The idea is that we end up with a nice list of trackbacks below to make the judging process easy for our judging panel. Thanks!

Hi guys

Here’s my piece called “High Street” – http://lolaakinmade.com/2010/03/17/high-street/

It implores travelers, I think, to notice even the most mundane of details no matter where they find themselves, be it in a vibrant neighborhood or on a boring walk to the train station.

Just posted my entry! http://bindingthebroken.blogspot.com/2010/03/some-things-are-just-universal.html

Quite a number of these seem over the 500-words, how strict is that rule guys?

Here’s mine – it made me hungry, writing it today…

http://www.wanderingeducators.com/best/stories/foodie-finds-everyone-s-welcome-su-casa.html

This is one of my very favorite restaurants in the whole world. A local family truly has brought a sense of community to life – and has the most extraordinary Mexican food I’ve had!

Hi guys,

Here’s my piece called “One Brief Illustration of Authenticity” :

http://www.posatigres.com/2010/02/15/one-brief-illustration-of-authenticity/

It examines the way travelers want to see local people and interpret “authenticity” and how sometimes travelers’ desires to see things in particular ways prevent local people from having their own stories, motivations and intentions.

I’m a freelance writer based in Oaxaca, Mexico. I’m a contributing editor at the Matador Network and a contributing writer at Change.org.

Thanks!

Sarah

Hi Jessie, Sarah & Saxon

Thank you so much for your entries! They’re all fab! Good luck!

best,
Lara

Also, I’m having the same problem as others when joining Friendconnect (never used it before; have a google ID, so I tried signing up, but still a bit – ok, a lot – confused). Can someone please direct? Thanks!

Whew, in just under the wire…

Here’s my post, called “Along A Red Dirt Road” –

http://itchyfoot.tumblr.com/post/471388186/this-post-has-been-entered-into-the

I’m a professional travel writing noob based in New York, headed to Peru in May.

All these entries are so inspiring!

I’m a travel writer and blogger who traveled the Mid East last fall. This is one night of my journey.

http://www.solofemaletraveler.com/city-of-madness-cairo-travel-stories/

Awesome contest! Hope I’m not the very last!

Here is my entry, “The Other Side of the Island”: http://simonegorrindo.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/the-other-side-of-the-world/

I’m Simone Gorrindo, a freelance journalist, travel writer and poet, currently based outside of Washington, DC. But I bounce around a lot.

Thanks for the change to submit!

My entry is up at http://travelrat.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/caddies-creek/

Hi guys, Thanks for hosting this competition and picking such a great topic. My post, The Currency of Kindness, is about those off-the-beaten path everyday experiences with local people that happen while on the beaten path: http://www.theroadforks.com/worldtrip/cambodia/the_currency_of_kindness
(Mine also doesn’t appear to be showing up on the trackbacks even though I linked to it).

Look forward to reading everyone’s posts!

Hi Lara and Tere,

I am madly working to get my post up before the deadline, almost there. I just wanted to know, can we enter more than one post? I am working on one, but would kinda like to enter a post I put up on our blog two days ago – can I enter both?

Thanks!

jiffer – co author of smashandsniff – my cousin ash already entered!

Hi all,

my post is now up too at http://smashandsniff.blogspot.com/2010/03/tripping-over-history-in-schanze.html. diversity and remembrance in Hamburg, Germany. I hope you enjoy.

Best,

jiffer

ps i too had trouble with friend connect.

I hope it is not too late. Here is my entry http://www.journeyofablackearedkite.com/photography/fifty-steps/. My name is Kasandra Antoine