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Mykonos, Greece

Travel Tips:
Brave New Traveler shares 5 Tips Every Traveler Should Know About Internet Security. Find out how to protect your data when using internet cafes.

Amanda at Vagabondish has suggestions for using all 5 of your senses when you travel to get the most out of your travel experience.

Greg from Start Backpacking! has a guest post on The Traveler's Notebook about How To Take Better Notes For Your Travel Blog. One of his tips includes using those 5 senses to describe your experience. Even if you don't have a travel blog, these suggestions are also great for travel journals (and future scrapbooks!)

Travel Destinations:
BestHike.com recommends hiking in Hawaii with Kauaʻi - Hawaiian hiking paradise and hiking Waimea Canyon, Hawaii with kids.

Travel Bits:
Congratulations to Amy and Sloan from Reason to Wander for their recent engagement!

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Market in Dubrovnik, Croatia

TRAVEL DESTINATIONS:
Planning a visit to Japan? Viator has ideas of what to do in Kyoto and Tokyo, a Tale of Two Cities.

Jack at Eyeflare has put together a great list of places to go ice skating in London.

The New York Times makes suggestions for adventure travel in Mexico.

TRAVEL TIPS:
Vagabondish shows you how to stay for free while traveling with 8 Tools to Help You Travel Forever and Live Rent Free.

On the traveler's notebook, Julie Schwietert gives tips on How to Live Like A Local, great advice for travelers and expats alike.

You can also hire a true local to show you around. Intelligent Travel writes about Locals for Hire in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Barcelona, Lisbon, Madrid, and Stockholm.

TRAVEL WRITING:
Vagabonding shares 5 tips for writing better travel journals.

In an earlier post, I mentioned How to Write a Travel Journal That's Worth Reading from Vagabondish.

Another good article is Create a More Vivid Travel Journal by Dave Fox.

Put these tips to good use and write your own travel story and submit it to the new Traveling Stories Magazine Writing Competition. You might just win the $150 prize! From Michael at TSM, "The contest is in an effort to motivate travelers to share their traveling stories instead of just letting them go untold. Everyone always has at least a couple really interesting traveling stories."

TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY:
There are some good tips about asking permission to photograph people on Digital Photography School.

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Red Rocks Park near Morrison, Colorado

TRAVEL NARRATIVES:
Dave from GoBackpacking started his round the world trip today. His first stop is Tahiti, but I'm not at all jealous. I like the below freezing temps we are experiencing in Minnesota, really. Ha! In a recent post, Dave shared his packing list and a photo of everything he is bringing on his trip. Could you pack like that for a year on the road?


TRAVEL DESTINATIONS:
Learn about the history of Central Park on Eyeflare.

National Parks Traveler has two articles that caught my eye: Paddling Into Yellowstone National Park and How the National Seashores Came to Be.

Read about the Big Sur Coast in California on Real Travel.


TRAVEL TIPS:
Nath at Ubertramp is at it again. He is sharing even more travel tips with Hidden Money Belts and How to Hide Money on your Person.

Not just for women, Beth at Wanderlust and Lipstick shares 5 tips for solo women travelers.

TRAVEL WRITING:
Check out Vagabondish for some great tips on How to Write a Travel Journal That's Worth Reading. I especially like the suggestions to use different color pens to mark different days, and to create an index of your entries. I even have one of those pens with 4 different colors to choose from.


TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY:
The holidays are here, and it seems like cameras are on sale at all the stores. If you are thinking of buying a new camera for yourself or someone else, here are some good resources to help you choose a digital camera.

Digital Photography School has several tutorials on how to buy digital cameras.

Should you buy a DSLR camera? Check out the traveler's notebook useful article and quiz to help you decide.


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Five Favorite Tips and Tricks

The final list of entries for Daily Blog Tips "Tips and Tricks" group writing project is in. Out of 120 articles, here are 5 of my favorites:

1. Long Haul Flights- 5 Tips for Comfort on Go Visit Hawaii

2. 101 Tips for Better Photos on Life & Stuff

3. Tips and Tricks to Get More out of Your Laptop Battery on Shivaranjan.com

4. One simple trick to master any language on MisEntropy

5. 7 Tips to Overcoming Writers Block on Mystical Worlds of Susan Flemming

For more great articles, check out the final list on Daily Blog Tips. (My entry was about Saving Money on a Colorado Ski Vacation.)

*Thank you to J Larson for sharing the above photo of her dog, Dakota, under a creative commons license on flickr

From other Blogs...

On Brave New Traveler, Madeleine Somerville wrote a great review of Wanderlust and Lipstick by Beth Whitman. I decided to give the book a chance and ordered it from Amazon.

If you have a great travel story, Ian at Brave New Traveler has put together a list of online travel magazines that publish travel stories.

Traveling Stories Magazine is having a Summer Story Contest, with a prize of $50 for the story that gets the best ratings by August 31st.

Rolf Potts recently wrote some travel articles for the LA Times. They are all great reads, but my favorite was How much money for a dream trip?, where he encouraged saving money by living simply.

Are you looking for a festival to add to your travel itinerary? Go Budget Travel has a list of resources to help you find festivals and cultural events around the world.

The Guardian Unlimited takes a fresh look at the Midwest with an article about Minnesota.

The New York Times explores the last wilderness with an article about north-central Idaho. Another article in the Times gives tips on how to picnic in Central Park, New York City.