98 results found for 'section:lucky_winners'

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  Travels in France: Immersion

  Author: Rachel Ravina

  Categories: LUCKY WINNERS, EUROPE, EXPLORE A CULTURE

  The moment I stepped out of the terminal of the Charles-de Gaulle airport, a great wave -- no, a tsunami - of unfamiliar words crashed upon me. It scattered my senses and left me floundering, my confidence dampened. I had stood contented on my li Read More›



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  The Eternal City

  Author: Angela DAlonzo (Is this you?)

  Categories: LUCKY WINNERS, EUROPE, EXPLORE A CULTURE

  The calendar date is July 17th, 2005, but for all I see around me it may be over nineteen hundred years earlier. That's because Pompeii is a city lost to time, oblivious to or defiant of the continuous clockwork of the world around it.  Millio Read More›



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  Family Travel Forum Announces 2010 Young Travel Writers Scholarship Winners

  Author: Jillian Ryan

  Categories: LUCKY WINNERS, BIGO NEWS

  After running the inspirational Teen Travel Writers Scholarship for the past three years, Family Travel Forum decided it was time for travel writers ages 18-26 who shared their tales with the travelBIGO.comRead More›



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  Bolivia's Hidden Gem: An Enchanting Desert of Salt

  Author: Maija Wallace

  Categories: CHILL, EXPLORE A CULTURE, SOUL SEARCH, CENTRAL & SO. AMERICA, LUCKY WINNERS

  Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, is the most beautiful place I have ever visited in my life. It is the largest salt desert in the entire world, measuring 12,000 square kilometers and containing around 90% of the world’s salt-- a resource that is Read More›



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  A Golden Morning at Goldbug Hotsprings

  Author: Sunshine Davis

  Categories: CHILL, DISCOVER ROOTS, SOUL SEARCH, UNITED STATES & CANADA, LUCKY WINNERS

   We arrived after dark with our packs loaded and ready to hike.  There were four of us and we were all severely overloaded for an easy one and a half mile hike and two night stay.  I was carrying eighty pounds of gear in my pack and  Read More›



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  Authentic Chai With You

  Author: Sarah Joy Mikolajczyk

  Categories: HELP OTHERS, EXPLORE A CULTURE, ASIA, LUCKY WINNERS

  I have found nothing quite like the richness of the gravy-air in the land of spices. You could blindfold me and put me on an India-bound airplane without telling me where on earth I was going, and once the aircraft’s door opened and the thick Read More›



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  London Bridge

  Author: Kdrummond

  Categories: EXPLORE A CULTURE, SOUL SEARCH, EUROPE, LUCKY WINNERS

  Cold. Cold. Cold. My boots clatter against the icy cobblestones to this repeating mantra. I try to wiggle my toes to see if the sleet has seeped in beneath three layers of socks—but they are too numb and plump to tell. The brilliant r Read More›



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  Trip to Nice, France.

  Author: Winslow13

  Categories: EXPLORE A CULTURE, EUROPE, LUCKY WINNERS

  We stood at the corner of a gravel lot in Le Parc de la Colline du Chateau. The four of us passed a soccer ball back and forth, the sun on our faces, just off an 8 hour flight from a gray and rainy New York. The park was on a steep cliff, overlooki Read More›



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  Family Travel Forum Announces 2009 Student Travel Scholarship Winners

  Author: Family Travel Forum Staff

  Categories: LUCKY WINNERS

  (New York, November 13, 2009) - Family Travel Forum (FTF), the award-winning family vacation publisher, is proud to announce the winners of its 3rd annual Teen Travel Writing Scholarship competition. More than 8,500 student travel blogs – a 3 Read More›



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  Congratulations! Winners of 2008 Teen Travel Writing Scholarship

  Author: Family Travel Forum Staff

  Categories: LUCKY WINNERS

  (New York, November 11, 2008) - Family Travel Forum (FTF), the award-winning publisher of family vacation information on the web, is proud to announce the winners of its second annual Teen Travel Essay Scholarship competition. More tha Read More›