Many people dream about getting paid to travel the world, yet so few make it happen. It was my dream, too. But I didn’t just give it lip service; I made a plan to accomplish that goal. A big part of that was creating my travel blog, Luggage and Lipstick. A travel blog...

Now that everyone’s on Facebook, everyone’s a writer. Everyone has an opinion that they believe the world deserves to hear – and many of them are right.  Too bad, though, that much of that writing is more about writers’ needs to be heard than about enlightening the...

At Great Escape’s recent Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop in New Orleans, I was pleasantly surprised by how many of the attendees already have or are working on their own blogs. They weren’t in the majority, by a long shot – but their numbers are clearly growing.  As...

I’ve been writing a monthly travel column in The Denver Post since January of 2012, and I’m the author of six books about travel. All of that work can be traced back to my blog, The Tranquilo Traveler, which I created in 2005.  The initial purpose of my blog was to...

When most bloggers think about publicizing their blog, they turn to Facebook and Instagram. But I’d argue that Pinterest is a powerful social media tool, too. It allows users to “pin” things that interest them to digital “boards” inside the program. For example, I...