Tag: Blog
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How to Start a Wildly Successful Travel Blog
Someone recently emailed me asking how to start a travel blog. They wanted to know, can you make money travel blogging? Is blogging a hobby or a career? What steps do I take to become successful? Which companies should I trust? I sometimes take for granted my years of experience in the blogging industry. While…
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Sh*t Travel Bloggers Say
It’s pretty rare that I show my mug on video. Fact of the matter is video cameras freak me out. Like crazy bad! Maybe not the cameras themselves, but seeing myself on camera. Yeuch… No thanks! Somehow or another, fellow travel blogger / friend Cailin Oneil of Cailin Travels & Travel Yourself, managed to drag me…
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TBEX 2011 officially confirms that I’m not a Jabroni
Leaving Vancouver after TBEX was a little surreal. After meeting so many like minded travellers, writers, and people involved in the tourism industry, it was sad to say goodbye. Fortunately, bigger and better things are on the horizon which are giving me a new lease on my future in the travel writing industry. I’ve taken…
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Moose Hopping Out West In June
Next month is looking to be a big month for I Backpack Canada. With TBEX 2011 on the horizon and some upcoming summer travels approaching, I have nothing but the highest of hopes for June. However, with all this great stuff coming up, the one thing that’s got me most psyched has got to be…
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Updates from my life: Lost the award, but claiming my prize for the one I won!
I mentioned in a previous post that I Backpack Canada was up for a Saskatchewan Tourism Award of Excellence. This would be the 2nd formal tourism award my little blog had been nominated for, and I was hoping to start off the year with a winning streak. I wasn’t able to attend, but it turns…
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I Backpack Canada nominated for Saskatchewan Tourism Award of Excellence
It appears karma is making me feel extra guilty for slowing my writing down. I Backpack Canada is one of the finalists for a Saskatchewan Tourism Award of Excellence. It looks like they filed me under Travel Media Award. Apparently all of those blog posts about my home province of Saskatchewan have caught the eye…
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Updates from my life: A Moustache, A Marriage, and Too Much School!
I was having a conversation with Jessica Bedford, the halifamous fashion blogger behind Haute.Halifax yesterday night about blogging. I was telling her how little I’ve had to write about as of lately. We both agreed we leave a lot of our personal lives out of our blogs and typically stick to the content. This got me thinking that…
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iBackpackCanada wins Award for Best Travel Blog in Canada
Looks like I’m doing something right. I was just given the honour of receiving the award for Best Travel Blog in Canada by GoMedia2010 and the Canadian Tourism Commission. So I’m basically just basking in this surreal state of “Did that just happen?!” I’d love to stick a few photos up of me accepting the…
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3 Best Kept Travel Secrets
Learn about the Doukhobors in Veregin, Saskatchewan This national historic site has some great stories to tell. In 1899 over 7400 Russian Doukhobors immigrated to Canada to take their claim of the Canadian government promise of land and religious freedom. The Doukhobors were persecuted in Russia for their beliefs. They completely rejected the secular government,…