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On the Passports with Purpose website, we have a little tagline: We believe in the power of travel to make change. We really do believe -- "we" being the four bloggers in Seattle who founded what we fondly call PwP for short. We didn't know that you believed in it too, as much as we did, more even.



Now that we're in our third year and have added a fifth critical person to our crew (Meg Paynor, PR), we have solid evidence that you believe travel creates change -- there's a school in… Continue

"The blog posts that were read at the TBEX community keynotes were as

well-written and meaningful as anything I’ve read in glossy travel

magazines lately." -- Here Comes Everybody: TBEX 10 || Chris Around the World



These links go to the original blog posts. In almost every case, we asked the writer to edit for brevity, so the versions you heard at TBEX… Continue

At this year's TBEX, I'm co-hosting the community keynote with Mike Barish.



1. At a guest house in the Austrian Alps, I met an old farmer who sat out WWII because he was captured by American soldiers his first day in uniform. He spent the entire war in a POW camp in Texas and loved it so much he didn't want to go home.



2. My sister in law did not believe the things I wrote on my blog about crossing the street in Hanoi. After we returned the US, she called my husband… Continue

Kelly (Travellious), Peter (The Carey Adventures) and me (Nerd's Eye View) are taking the long way to Chicago -- an eight day road trip over the Rockies and through the plains, stopping to meet bloggers, travel PR folks, twitterati, and locals along the way. We've opened our planning to comments on the TBEX Road Trip Blog -- please check it out, leave us… Continue

As you might know, there's a co-hosted "core conversation" about travelblogging happening NEXT WEEKEND at SxSW. The topic was proposed by the ever entertaining Sheila Scarborough and for some crazy reason, she's decided that I'm the perfect sidekick for that road show.



I've been joking that we're like the… Continue