Travel: Win a Trip to Australia!

Tourism Australia and Quiksilver announced today they have launched a Facebook contest, “Surf, Sun and Social Networking in Australia,” that will send one lucky winner to Australia to be the official blogger for the 2012 Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast. Beginning…

Writing Contest Winners Announced

presented by: We had a great response to our 2009 Travel Writing Contest and received more submissions than ever. Thanks to all the writers for the excellent submissions for our 2009 theme Responsible Travel: “EcoTourism, AgroTourism, Sustainable Tourism and Voluntourism”…

Categories: writing

Happy Mail

Hi Kimberly, Your story is officially the 2nd place winner for our 2009 Travel Writing Contest. (http://www.52perfectdays.com/2010-travel-writing-contest-theme) Here is the link.  http://www.52perfectdays.com/articles/eco-friendly-los-angeles I’ll be sending out a more formal notice regarding all the winning articles by next week as well…

Categories: life, travel, travel writing

November is National Novel Writing Month

November. The month before Christmas. A mere 30 days, with a nice food ridden holiday(and 3 day weekend) thrown in. November is also National Novel Writing Month. Join 100,000 participants as they try to write a 175 page, 50,000 word novel…

Categories: writing

52perfectdays.com

I have 2 featured articles at 52perfectdays.com! Check them out here, and help keep me in the top rotation: http://52perfectdays.com/articles/exploring-oxnard-culture-wines-and-great-food Palm Springs: Luxurious North Palm Canyon Drive xoxo, Kimberly

Categories: travel, writing

Montgomery, Alabama

Last week I hopped on a plane to attend the Travel Media Showcase in Montgomery, Alabama. Not knowing what to expect, I was shocked at all the rolling green hills and beautiful landscaping as we flew in. After 3 days in the…

Categories: food, life, pictures

Sunset Magazine

What a nice surprise! A part of my blog was reprinted in the “Buzz from Bloggers” section of the magazine. =) Thanks Sunset!

Categories: events, writing

keeping it la!

Busy day! Started off with a 10am tour of Paramount Studios for an upcoming article I am writing about Los Angeles travel…the tour guide, Abbey, was a doll and really knows her stuff. Afterwards, took a 2 minute drive to…

Categories: life, pictures, writing

from the editor

from the editor: I’m all about it and I can’t wait to see pictures. If you’re as good a model as you are a writer, I’ll be very pleased. Good luck. – Jules BTW, the article is great. It will…

Categories: travel, writing