Write now (yes, that's intentional), I'm working on pieces for Verge Magazine and Matador Network, both should be published in the coming months. Plus, Expat Parents of Bangkok just accepted an older piece of mine about a weekend I spent babysitting my nieces and nephew... I was flown from the East Coast, to the Mid-West while their parents ventured to the Deep South, for THREE DAYS!! I can't even water a house plant - never mind 3 kids.I'm now blogging for Spice Roads too and my first two posts were just published. Spice Roads is a pretty cool adventure cycling company that runs tours in 30 countries from Albania to Madagascar, Greece to Vietnam, with Thailand as their hub. For me, the beauty is in going on all their day trips and then getting to write about them. Basically, I'm being paid to do what other people are paying to do... how lucky am I?? :)
I also enrolled in MatadorU, an online travel media school, which I'm really loving. The faculty includes some of the most fascinating, awe-inspiring people I've met. There are UN reporters, NPR commentators and winners of the Lowell Thomas prize for travel journalism. I'm taking two courses - advanced travel writing and fundamentals of travel photography. (They also have classes on film making, but whoa, slow down there, Bessie. All this is already making my head spin. I am not doing video, too!) But, anyway, if you, or someone you know, thinks you might want some schooling in travel writing, photography or film making, check them out and sign up here. MatadorU (I get credit if you use my link!)
Anyway, over the next few days I will post all of the pieces I mentioned above here, in this blog, along with my homework assignments for school. So if anyone still reads this thing, stay tuned.... it's about to get some reading/writing love!
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