Blogging Abroad

Hey everyone, I’m back at school this week. I want to keep this site up to date and hope to have regular updates and new and excellent articles for you all. However I do know that school eats up more time than I expect every year. So here’s the deal:

I would like to have another person who loves to travel and has a thing for writing to give me a hand with this site. Drop me a comment and I’ll get back to you if you think blogging about travel/ tech gear is for you!

Casey

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I tend to waste time when I’m sitting down at the computer “working”. I look around and surf the net quite a bit, and I want to share my 3 favorite sites that are semi related to travel. If you are a travel blogger these sites will probably appeal to you as well!

Flickr: Flickr is the new kid on the block in the photo hosting world. You can upload all your travel shots here while traveling which is an awesome feature. You can also look at other people’s photos of destinations or just anything and everything. There are some very talented photographers on this site, and tons of regular old pic snappers.

If you have digital travel photos I suggest signing up for flickr and uploading them, people can view and comment on your pics so you can get a bit of feedback and be part of the community. You can also add your backpacker or travel photos to different groups. A group is like a pool of photos where each member of the group can add their own photos to the pool. I set up a group for Blogging Abroad, so come and drop some of yours in our group. If you have any and you are on flickr or sign up for flickr, come by and let us all see some of your shots!

Here’s my flickr account, feel free to add me as a friend!

43 Places: What are your top 43 destinations you would like to visit? Why not make a list and start adding to that list, and check them off when you visit your choice locals, let others around the world know where you have been as well and see who else has been there. Read reviews and see pictures generated by a community.

These are all the functions of one of my favorite time wasting site www.43places.com (they also have www.43things.com ). I have been on here for a few months just adding away slowly I now have 7 places I want to visit, but don’t get me wrong I want to go everywhere.

Check out my profile and comment if you are up to it!

Gmail: Google’s email service that pretty much kicks the crap out of the other free email services out there. You get more than 2 gigs of space so you never really have to delete anything and you can search through your emails with google’s powerful search tools.

The spam filter catches all those penis pill and other junk spam, which saves you the headache of sorting it out yourself.

What are your favorite sites out there that are in someway, or not at all related to travel? I’d love to hear about them.

Casey

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I just came across this site with tons of tips and lessons on photography. Anyone can use these to make their travel blog just a little bit better!

http://www.dg28.com/technique.html

Check it out and let me know what you think!

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Have you ever wanted to meet more people while traveling? I know it can be pretty hard not meeting at least a few other backpackers and travelers while you are bouncing around town to town. However there is a new website, at least it is new to me, out there that is a social networking site (like myspace, hi5, etc) but it is specifically for backpackers and travelers.

I just signed up over there and am slowly checking out the new features and seeing what it is all about. So far it looks like a pretty cool, and I really like the idea and the fact that companies are paying more attention to us under appreciated worldly vagabonds.

The site is well layed out and has a pretty simple sign up, check it out at www.tripmates.com. Let me know if you have an account and what you think of this site!

Casey

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