Gold SATW & Independence Winners! Celebrate!

 

SATWF_Logo_2014OCTOBER NEWS FROM WE SAID GO TRAVEL:

Congratulations to Ken Budd for his Gold SATW award for his article, Kenya: Holding Elijah on We Said Go Travel! This award is considered the Pulitzer prize of Travel Writing.

Winners Announced for 2014 Summer 
First Place Winner:  Monet Waits by Tina Murty
 
Second Place Winner: 1974 in Nepal by Kirsti Whalen
 
Third Place Winner: How Salamanders Led Me on My Travels by Tiffany Soukup

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all the participants! The Fall 2014 Gratitude Travel Writing Contest is open. Free entry and cash prizes. Share your story of how you are a hero!
 
usa today 3more articlesNew on USA Today from Lisa:
Tee’s on the Green: Tastiest Burger in Tujunga 
The NICE GUY: A Bar-Lounge Hybrid by h.wood Group
10Best Holiday Attractions in Los Angeles
Article on Whole Life Magazine: How I stopped Binge Eating with before and after photos
 
 
the mid game interviewInterviewed by The Mid Game
“A great influencer is someone with integrity and something to say. Many people are making noise in the cyber world but an influencer shares their knowledge and stories and other people are drawn to learn more.” More great advice from veteran blogger and writer Lisa Niver of We Said Go Travel. Check out our interview with her here: http://bit.ly/1ydCF1t
SPECIAL THANKS to Tim Leffel for interviewing me and including me in his book: A Better Life for Half the Price.

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Lisa Ellen Niver

Lisa Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries on six continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel. On her award nominated global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty-two times. Named a #3 travel influencer for 2023, Niver talks travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, her YouTube channel with over 2 million views, and in her memoir, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.

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