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What is the best way to travel the United States in a rig, -state by state?

  • Posted on October 15, 2010 at 11:21 pm

My son is a meth user and I am going to do what one of the answers I saw said. “How to keep your son off drugs?” Answer: Move around alot so they can’t get into communities, -redirect thier focus. He also has a daughter (2yrs old) I am going to have him make a U.S. scrap book for her from her Daddy. We would also like to meet other families across America during this time. No outlandish spending just getting real. I’m thinking of spending a year.

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My daughter has a felony on her record. It was for cocaine/possession. Can she get a passport to travel?

  • Posted on August 16, 2010 at 1:22 pm

My daughter was with her boyfriend at the time of the arrest. She was the driver of the vehicle. My daughter was coming out of the grocery store when the police surrounded the vehicle. Her boyfriend was arrested for cocaine/possession, to distribute and cannabis possession. Being that my daughter was the driver she was arrested for cocaine/possession but did not have any on her. She was found guilty and was released with court costs and one day probation. Her boyfriend served 21 days and court costs. My question is can my daughter get a passport to travel to Italy for a vacation with her family?

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Earn While You Burn – Travel Writing Tips

  • Posted on January 13, 2010 at 7:06 am

I’m often asked if travel writing is a lucrative market for
freelance writers. Let’s face it – the idea of getting paid to
sit on the beach, sip on drinks with umbrellas in them, and work
on your tan appeals to us all.

I don’t know how lucrative travel writing is but it sure is fun!
I haven’t written a lot of travel pieces and I usually don’t set
out with that particular market in mind. For the most part, the
pieces I’ve sold have been the result of something I stumbled
upon that piqued my interest while doing something else.

For example, a few summers ago I was driving home from Atlanta
when I passed a billboard with the word “SPA” emblazoned on it.
It was advertising Chateau Elan, a winery inn and health spa a
few miles up the road. I’d passed Chateau Elan at least a dozen
times before and each time was struck by how unusual it was to
see a French chateau amongst the red clay and kudzu of Georgia.
The difference this time was that I had just finished working on
another piece for Spa Magazine. “Wow,” I thought, “I bet they’d
be interested in knowing about Chateau Elan.” I wrote a query
entitled Southern Ho’spa’tality.” They liked it and I had not
only an $800 assignment, but a 3-day vacation for my family as
well.

I didn’t have any real travel article clips to send, but did I
mention that to Spa Magazine? No way! But, I believed I could do
the article, so I wrote a convincing query letter and got the
assignment. The magazine loved the article and it definitely
earned me points with my wife and daughter.

Travel writing is really not any different than other types of
magazine writing. The basics are the same. Keep your eyes open
for interesting story ideas, develop a unique slant or
perspective, write a well-crafted query letter, do your
research, and write a tightly-constructed and narrowly-focused
piece. And before you know it, you’ll be sitting on that beach,
earning while you burn.

The ideas in this article are from, FROM SPARK TO FLAME – a
proven, systematic process for fanning your ideas into
money-making magazine ideas that make a difference

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