Van-Tastic Adventures: Drive it! Film it! Win it!
Are you a mad keen traveller with a lust for filming your adventures?
Enter the WorldNomads.com Van-Tastic Adventure for the chance to fly to Australia and film the ultimate Aussie road trip to win $AUD 10,000.
WorldNomads.com is looking ‘Van-Tastic Adventurers’ to travel across Australia on a 6 week road trip of a lifetime.
You’ll be flown to Australia to explore your favourite piece of the country in a fully loaded camper van, with fuel money, an action packed itinerary and all the gear you’ll need to share your adventure through videos, stories and photos.
You can choose where you want to go, what you want to do and, with heaps of adventurous activities thrown in for free, you’ll have lots of stories to make a mini video documentary of your adventure. The team with the most popular video will win $10,000 cash and flights from Virgin Blue.
Apply now and start preparing a 2 minute or less video of why you are the most Van-Tastic.
Ellen Barone is an American writer and wanderer. She co-founded and publishes the group travel blog YourLifeIsATrip.com and is currently at work on her first book "I Could Live Here".
Where Can a Tweet Take You? On a Dream Vacation…That’s Where!
Voyage.tv, a new media channel featuring original luxury travel and lifestyle programming, is giving anyone with a Twitter account the chance to win a dream vacation in the Voyage.tv “Tweet Your Trip Contest.”
Each week for the next 8 weeks, Voyage.tv will give away a dream vacation to anyone who follows @Voyagetv on Twitter and tweets their dream vacation in 140 characters or less. At the end of each week, the Voyage.tv staff will pick the best tweet and the winner will fly away on their dream vacation courtesy of Voyage.tv.
To enter, you must be 21 or older, a resident of the United States and follow @Voyagetv to be eligible to win. Complete details and entry rules are available at http://www.tweetyourtrip.com/.
Ellen Barone is an American writer and wanderer. She co-founded and publishes the group travel blog YourLifeIsATrip.com and is currently at work on her first book "I Could Live Here".
There’s still time to enter for your chance to win $1 million.
Through Sept. 10, 2009, enter the “Clarion Make Your Stay a Chance at a Million Dollars Giveaway.” In addition to the million-dollar grand prize, Choice Hotels and its Clarion brand make the going easy with a panoply of prizes. Eight first-place winners will get a Clarion Prize Pack with such travel goodies as:
— GPS system
— iPod nano
— Luggage
— Choice Hotels gift card
— 8,000 Choice Privileges rewards points.
Plus for each day of the giveaway, two instant winners will receive one of many prizes designed to make your travels fun. These instant winners cash in on great prizes: Apple MacBook laptops, digital camera, laptop bag, USB memory stick, iPod nanos, iPod shuffles, portable iPod speakers, $25 iTunes gift card, $50 and $100 Choice Hotels gift cards and thousands of Choice Privileges rewards points.
To enter the “Clarion Make Your Stay a Chance at a Million Dollars Giveaway,” visit http://www.clarionhotels.com and sign up for free for the Choice Privileges rewards program. You only have to register once. Then, you can play once daily for your chance to win.
Ellen Barone is an American writer and wanderer. She co-founded and publishes the group travel blog YourLifeIsATrip.com and is currently at work on her first book "I Could Live Here".
In the new Disney/Pixar film “Up,” a balloon salesman ties 1,000 helium-filled balloons to his house in search of adventure.
You, too, can experience the adventure of a lifetime witnessing more than 600 hot air balloons at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta® by entering Albuquerque’s High Flying adventure Sweepstakes
Experience the excitement of Albuquerque, the ballooning capital of the world, October 5-7, 2009 with a getaway for two to the world’s largest hot air ballooning event – the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta®. The getaway is valued at more than $1,500:
- Two nights at Nativo Lodge, a Heritage Hotels & Resorts property
- Two days admission to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta® including VIP access to the Gondola Club Hospitality Suite
- A balloon ride for two with Rainbow Ryders Hot Air Balloon Company
- A $200 Visa card to be used for airfare, gas or shopping
- Admission to the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum
- A Flip camera for the winner to video their trip and submit the footage for future promotions.
Ellen Barone is an American writer and wanderer. She co-founded and publishes the group travel blog YourLifeIsATrip.com and is currently at work on her first book "I Could Live Here".
Sonesta St. Maarten Resorts’ “Fall Frenzy” contest is giving away a free vacation.
Book any existing package online at www.sonesta.com/stmaarten for travel September 1 - October 31, 2009 and you are automatically entered to win a free three-night return stay at Sonesta Maho Beach Resort & Casino and Sonesta Great Bay Beach Resort & Casino. Return stays are valid April 4 - December 18, 2010.
Travelers to Sonesta St. Maarten Resorts can select from any current package, including:
- Share the Love: Two-for-one All-Inclusive special! Guests stay all-inclusive and bring a friend all-inclusive for free. Valid for bookings made by August 31 for stays through December 15, 2009.
- St. Maarten Seduction: Sonesta Great Bay Beach Resort & Casino welcomes couples with its romance package. Valid for travel through December 19, 2009 with ocean view rooms, fine dining and more for $199 per night.
Ellen Barone is an American writer and wanderer. She co-founded and publishes the group travel blog YourLifeIsATrip.com and is currently at work on her first book "I Could Live Here".
Register for Sweepstakes at Patagonia Stores Nationwide through June 29
Patagonia and Texas Tourism invite you to take it outside, and enter for a chance to win one of two adventures to Texas, or a gift card from Patagonia.
Whether your outdoor tastes run to raising your binoculars in search of an Elegant Trogon, or paddling down Class II or III rapids in water coursing beneath 1,500-foot limestone walls, you can find it in Texas. Patagonia and Texas Tourism have teamed up for a sweepstakes aimed at adventure travelers looking for a Lone Star State experience. Register at one of 23 Patagonia stores across the country (excluding Cardiff, CA and Hawaii) between June 8 and June 29 for a chance to win one of two trips or a Patagonia gift card that can help outfit you for your next outdoor excursion.
Grand prize: Six-night birding trip through the lower Rio Grande Valley. The two-person prize includes two $250 gift cards redeemable in any of Patagonia’s 25 stores nationwide, plus airfare, transportation, personal birding guide, hotel accommodations and select meals in McAllen, Brownsville and South Padre Island, TX.
Ellen Barone is an American writer and wanderer. She co-founded and publishes the group travel blog YourLifeIsATrip.com and is currently at work on her first book "I Could Live Here".