I was recently interviewed for a piece on “travel bloggers” for a local paper, The Daily Herald, and it came out in today’s paper. You can read it online here if you’re interested but my contribution was very small. Despite the way the online version is organized, my cartwheel photo from Giza, Egypt ran across the front page of the “Life & Entertainment” section. Thankfully they didn’t use any of my cartwheel photos where you can see my stomach!
Being an artist, her blog is attractive and contains pictures of her doing cartwheels in front of more than 100 of the world’s landmarks.
…Blow dryers, water pressure and toilet paper feel like luxuries, and while she enjoys “not living out of a backpack,” she’s debating whether to return to the graphic design world or venture into a new field. What she’d really like to do is start a consulting business for people who want to take around-the-world trips.
I’m glad that my blog is considered attractive (so many are just horrible) but you can’t believe everything you read. I don’t want to disappoint anyone stopping in for the first time today—you won’t find my cartwheel photos here. It’s true, I do a cartwheel in most places I visit (sand dunes are the worst for cartwheeling) but I’ve kept most of those photos aside for another project some time in the future. I just skimmed over my cartwheel albums and it looks like I have around 275 cartwheel photos form the past ten years.
I’m also not looking to start a travel consulting business instead of graphic design. You can imagine that people often ask me the same questions or offer the same suggestions and that is one of them. At least once a month someone says “you should start a travel consulting business.” My reply is always “that sounds nice but I don’t’ think the people who can afford to pay me want advice on how to best take a bucket shower or how to get from Ethiopia to Kenya by land.” I do a lot of consulting for free already—at least fifty people have contacting me this past year for help with their trips. In fact, I got two new emails full of questions today alone.
6 responses to “Me-go Featured in Local Paper”
Crap! I guess I should have gotten my questions to you before the impending (maybe?) on-slaught of emails. To be truthful, though, I was planning on waiting a couple of months anyway (to give you plenty of decompress time). Just don’t go do Oprah or something then I’ll never get through.
Stacy,
Don’t be silly, send me your questions as soon as you’re ready. If it makes you feel better I’ll take a day or two to respond…
And don’t worry about Oprah, my fellow RTW’ers The Andrus Family has that covered.
Very cool about being featured in the article (even if they did get a few details wrong)! 😉
Hey Megan,
Congrat’s on your article! Hey, you really should become a travel consultant…i’ll hire you first but don’t brake my piggy bank bc remember i’ll be traveling on a very tight budget! jaja. Myabe you should write a book!
Pura Vida,
Claudia Cavazos
Yep, I’ve been following Sixintheworld as well. I couldn’t get onto their website for a couple days after their appearance. I like to think I discovered them before they became “famous”.
> …my blog is considered attractive (so many are just horrible)…
Ahem. Feel free to qualify that 😉
Do you still have the being-home-is-so-surreal buzz? I imagine that it is diminished, but…
Stu