Bloggers: Help us Build a Village in India

Passports With Purpose is a charity run by travel bloggers that I got involved with this year after interviewing one of the founders.  PWP was founded by Debbie DubrowPam Mandel,Beth Whitman and Michelle Duffy in 2008.  That year they raised $7,400 for Heifer International.  In 2009 they blew away their goal of  raising $14,000 to build a school in Cambodia, and raised $30,000, so they threw in a vegetable garden, a clean well, and a school nurse, in a addition to building the school.  The school, which was built with help from American Assistance for Cambodia, is already finished.

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Tony and Thomas of Contemporary Nomad on Traveling and Blogging

Tony Eitnier and Thomas Arnold, authors of the Contemporary Nomad travel blog, live quintessentially postmodern lives. Arnold, a German chemist, and Eitnier, an American language and communications trainer, started their travels as couple without a home. Because of the exclusionary marriage laws in their respective countries, neither was able to obtain a visa to live in the other’s home country. This pushed them into a nomadic lifestyle, and online entrepreneurship, both of which they have come to love.

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Traveling with Children: An Interview with Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby Part 2

Debbie Dubrow
Debbie with two of her children in Gaudi Park, Barcelona

This is the second part of a two-part interview with Debbie Dubrow, author of Delicious Baby. Part 1 can be read here.

MG: Were you nervous the first time you traveled with your children? What did you expect it to be like?

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Traveling with Children: An Interview with Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby Part 1

Debbie Dubrow
Debbie with two of her children in Gaudi Park, Barcelona

Sure, Tim Cahill will go drunken diving for poisonous sea snakes, and Rolf Potts will try to sneak onto the set of The Beach in a Thai fishing boat, but that’s nothing.  If you want brave, talk to Debbie Dubrow.  She travels with her husband and their three children aged 5, 3, and 1.  That’s three children to take care of on airplanes and in hotel rooms, restaurants, and taxicabs all over the globe.

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