A Cure for Your TBEX Swag Envy

So if you're on Twitter or read many travel blogs, you've likely heard about the spectacular swag given out at the recent Travel Blog Exchange '09 in Chicago.

Debbie and our sponsors did a great job gathering a lot of the fab things that ended up in the bags (and as you can see from her behind-the-scenes post, the intrepid Shanna did a lot of work to make it happen too!).

I'm including a few extra items that were last-minute additions here, as well as....drumroll please...running a little contest! (Details below...)

Many thanks to all the awesome companies who donated items for the bags -- and to Hertz Car Rental for providing the really high-quality laptop backpacks themselves! All those who contributed items were:

Hertz, Rosetta Stone, Gogo Inflight Internet, Boingo, Tugo, Frommer's, Energizer, Starbucks, Minimus, Tots on-the-Go, Indie Travel Podcast, HomeAway, TravelPod, Hotels.com, BootsnAll, and Savvy Navigator.

And of course who can forget the Vail Resorts door prize?! They randomly drew three lucky travel bloggers for a free trip to all five of their ski resorts in Colorado this winter! The winners were Meg from Backpacktobuggy.com, Chris from Littletravelnotebook.com, and Christopher Elliott from Elliott.org. Congratulations you guys!!

CONTEST
Leave one comment below, as well as a link to your blog (don't forget to click the little link symbol to insert a clickable url). We'll pick a random winner using random.org, and one lucky travel blogger will get a little swag for yourself!

Comment right away, I'm shutting this thing down by 6pm on Sunday, August 9th!

Up for grabs in this weekend's contest:
1 Gogo Inflight Internet voucher
1 Rosetta Stone Level 1 Language Learning Program Voucher
1 Boingo Wifi Session Voucher
1 Tugo Travel Cup Holder

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Here are a few contest rules:
-- only open to travel bloggers, no PR reps please (nothing personal)
-- must be reachable by email within one week of winning, or another blogger will be drawn
-- I'll send it to you overseas if that's where your permanent address is
-- prize is only what's listed, no cash equivalent will be provided
-- void where prohibited
-- no more than one comment is allowed, those leaving multiple comments will be disqualified
-- comment by 6pm Central US Standard Time on August 9, 2009 to qualify

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UPDATE: AND THE WINNER IS...
Audrey from Uncornered Market!
Congrats Audrey!
She was commenter #20, which was picked by Random.org as the winning number!

(NOTE: two duplicate entries were deleted and one comment was made after the drawing was conduced...)

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Comment by Mike Willits on September 29, 2009 at 7:23pm: Sounds like it was a great outing! Hope to make TBX10. Sounds like a great place to "fight". 1000 places to fight before you die.

Comment by CruiseBuzz - Carrie Finley-Bajak on August 11, 2009 at 1:21pm: Really do love to win. I hope that I can win the random drawing. Enter me please to win.

Comment by Laura E. Lincks on August 9, 2009 at 3:55pm: Looking forward to the next TBEX. Love the idea of building the community up to be even stronger.

Comment by Audrey on August 9, 2009 at 11:28am: Wish we could have been at TBEX 09 in person to collect this ourselves, but perhaps lady luck will shine upon us and we can improve our Spanish with Rosetta Stone. Dan and Audrey of Uncornered Market.

Comment by Kayt Sukel on August 9, 2009 at 11:13am: Heard great things and hope very much to attend next year!

Comment by Sharlene on August 9, 2009 at 11:13am: Swag you say? I'm in! I am making plans for next year's TBEX already. Double the Adventure

Comment by GoVisitHawaii - Sheila Beal on August 9, 2009 at 11:04am: From all accounts, it sounds like TBX 09 was a big success! I hope to make next year's event.

My blog: GoVisitHawaii

Comment by My Melange on August 9, 2009 at 10:57am: Great job Kim (and all) for putting the TBEX 09 together! Couldn't make it this year- tried like crazy to watch it through livestream....better luck next year!! Hopefully, I won't need the livestream next year ;) Crossing my fingers for a NYC TBEX. Come on over and visit me at blog - My Mélange.

Comment by Christine on August 8, 2009 at 6:35am: Please to give me swag? Love, Your Miss Expatria.

Comment by Sherry Ott on August 8, 2009 at 6:30am: Man, I could have used that Rosetta Stone in Mongolia! Sorry I missed TBEX this year - but was traveling through Mongolia instead...a fair trade-off I think! While you were all talking about Travel Blogging - I was living it while milking goats and fending off Mongolian wedding proposals!