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What Does Traveling Mean To You?

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

A Map For Saturday

The bloggers below have entered in the ‘A Map For Saturday’ DVD giveaway contest by submitting a quote/motto/phrase that best expresses what traveling means to them. Now it’s time for you, the travel community, to vote on your favorite quote.

Voting ends March 4th at 11:59PM EST. The quote with the most votes will be announced on March 6th and the winner will receive a copy of Brook Silva-Braga’s documentary A Map For Saturday.

What does traveling mean to you?

  • "You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." - Kirsten (43%, 27 Votes)
  • "I wanted to wander the world in a dirty seersucker suit, getting into trouble." - Alisha (21%, 13 Votes)
  • You learn more on a RTW than a MBA - Craig (11%, 7 Votes)
  • Travel is its own world. It has its own people and it's own language. We're all citizens of the world, but few of us are citizens of Travel. - Pam (8%, 5 Votes)
  • The greatest reward & luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. - Brie (6%, 4 Votes)
  • Travel for me is cutting old wood, living with less & getting more in return. Also it's a nice way of proving the misanthrope in myself wrong, that there are in fact heaps of nice people. - Conrad (3%, 2 Votes)
  • "Life is a book...Each stage in your life...is a different chapter...Look forward to beginning that new chapter. You can never get on with the story if you don't keep reading." - Magicant (3%, 2 Votes)
  • Travel feeds the human spirit. - Klaus (3%, 2 Votes)
  • "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." - Oliver (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Traveling is a passion of mine. Seeing new places, cultures and trying new foods is very exciting to me! - Avril (0%, 0 Votes)
  • I love traveling because I get to discover new smells and tastes. - Aileen (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 63

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Let the voting begin!

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A Map For Saturday Giveaway Contest

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Enter to win a free copy of A Map For Saturday DVD!

A Map For Saturday

I was never a fan of popping pills. Even if I am deathly ill. I prefer to sleep it off and pray that my lungs will still be in my chest when I wake up. But there is one thing pills and sleep, can’t cure – my wanderlust. All it takes for me to spark this irresistible impulse to travel is a look out the window.

My wanderlust has always been the fuel for this travel blog. I didn’t start this blog with the intention of becoming the Grand Master Guru of All Travel Bloggers. I’ll save that title for Dave at GoBackpacking.com. This blog was intended to be my escape. I just wanted to write. For myself. No one else.

Then Art of Backpacking featured me in “The 5 Travel Personalities You Must Know In 2010.” Shocker, I know! How could I stack up to Canada’s most charming traveling couple Dave & Deb? How could I be put in the same game as Twenty-Something Travel, Sosauce & Brook Silva-Braga? It still behooves me.

What surprised me even more was when Emmy winning producer Brook Silva-Braga reached out to me. He is an ex-TV producer turned world traveler. He produced his around the world trip documentary, A Map For Saturday, and offered to send me a copy. The film chronicles Brook’s travels through 26 countries on four continents.

The film is inspiring, thought-provoking and real. At the end of the day relationships and experiences are two things that weigh most in our lives. Brook beautifully documents all the challenges travelers face when it comes to relationships, whether it’s platonic or romantic, and the relationships travelers have with themselves and the world as they travel around the world.

A Map For Saturday synopsis:

On a trip around the world, every day feels like Saturday. A MAP FOR SATURDAY reveals a world of long-term, solo travel through the stories of trekkers on four continents.

But at its core, SATURDAY tracks the emotional arc of extreme long-term travelers; teenagers and senior citizens who wondered, “What would it be like to travel the world?” Then did it.

The documentary finds backpackers helping neglected Thai tsunami victims. It explains why Nepal’s guesthouses are empty and Brazil’s stoplights are ignored.

A Map For Saturday Giveaway Contest!

Now I’d like to take this opportunity to share with you what Brook has shared with me. I am giving away a copy of A Map For Saturday!

All you have to do is…

1. Leave a comment below with a quote/motto/phrase that best expresses what traveling is to you.

[Commenting will be closed on February 23rd, 11:59 PM EST]

2. Follow me on Twitter @monica530 & retweet this blog post

That’s it!

You can also become a fan of my Facebook Fan Page and/or subscribe to my blog via RSS feed or email. I am not going to check to see who subscribed but it will come in pretty handy when I announce the winner. I’m just saying. ;)

Once I’ve collected all the quotes, the entire travel community will have a week to vote for their favorite quote. Voting begins February 24th and ends on March 4th at 11:59 PM EST. The winner with the most votes will be announced on March 5th.

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