Lost Travels

What’s the Prize?:

One (1) winner will receive:

• A seven (7) day European cruise for two (2) aboard The Yachts of Seabourn (“Cruise”).

• Winner and travel companion will also receive round-trip coach air transportation from the major commercial airport nearest the winner’s primary residence in the U.S. or Canada and ground transportation to and from Cruise embarkation city (either Malaga or Barcelona, Spain; Monte Carlo, Monaco; Athens, Greece; Rome or Venice, Italy; or Istanbul, Turkey).
• Approximate retail value of prize is $9,000

Three (3) Second Prize winners will receive:

• A weekend trip for two to one of the North American, Hawaiian, or Caribbean hotels or resorts, as named in this year’s Readers’ Choice Survey.
• Hotel room (double occupancy) for three (3) nights,
• Round-trip coach air transportation from the major commercial airport nearest the winner’s primary residence in the U.S. or Canada, and hotel transfers.
• The approximate retail value of each second prize is $3,000

When does the promotion end?: Promotion ends 11:59 P.M, E.S.T., on May 31, 2010

OFFICIAL SWEEPSTAKES RULES:

http://surveys.researchresults.com/SPSSMR/ImageCache/ImageCache.aspx?Project=S2230066T3&File=en-US/Rules.htm

HOW TO ENTER

Visit http://www.cntraveler.com/readerschoice and follow the instructions to complete and submit the entry form. One entry per person and per e-mail address.

Lending Club is changing the face of bank lending, now we’re also changing our web site background images. To celebrate our new web site, we’re hosting the first ever Lending Club Photo Contest.  We invite all professional and amateur photographers (as well as anybody who knows a good picture when they see one) to submit one or multiple entries (maximum of 4) for a chance to win $1,000.

Have a picture to win it all?
Send us a picture to be used on Lending Club’s web site any time before midnight (Pacific Time) on April 30, 2010.   On May 3rd, the Lending Club team will announce the 10 finalist photographs and will post them on our Facebook fan page for a public vote.  The photographs with the most votes by May 31, 2010 wins the contest.

Submit breathtaking photographs that somehow (this is where your artistic awesomeness comes in) showcases Lending Club values:

• trustworthy,
• transparent,
• professional yet friendly and accessible.

Prizes:

• One  grand prize winner will receive$1,000 by American Express gift card
• One second place winner will receive $500 by American Express gift card
• One third place winner will receive $300 by American Express gift card
• Up to three honorary mentions: $100/each by American Express gift card

How to enter?
Simply leave a comment on this blog post with your email, name, and link to the image.  You may also leave a short explanation of why you think the submitted picture is right for Lending Club’s site.

Qualifying pictures/licenses
We’re looking for breathtaking photographs that somehow (this is where your artistic awesomeness comes in) showcases Lending Club values: trustworthy, transparent, professional yet friendly and accessible.  Check out some of the photographs we have used in the past on our background images page.

For complete details on qualifying , please see contest rules.

Tweet & win too
During the time of the contest (from Monday, March 22nd and April 30th), we will randomly pick a tweet that mentions the photo contest (containing a link to our post and the hashtag #LCphoto) to win a Lending Club t-shirt or messenger bag.
Send us your best shots.  Good luck!

• Copyright: By submitting the picture, you agree and acknowledge that such picture will license to Sponsor under a creative commons attribution copyright licenses. You will receive no royalty or other fee (other than the applicable prize fee) if Sponsor uses your submitted picture.
• Eligibility: Open to any photographer who is resident in the USA.
• Entry fee: Free
• Entry deadline: 31 May 2010

• Picture must be available online (such as photo sharing sites or stock photo libraries)
• Picture must have one (1) focal point, as well as no more than three (3) dominating colors.
• Picture quality must be at least 2000×2000 pixels
• Picture must be in PNG, GIF or JPG format
• Blurry, damaged, out of focus or inappropriate images, as determined in Sponsor’s sole and absolute discretion, will be ineligible
• A maximum of four (4) entries are allowed per person.

Got anything like this in your photo bag: http://www.anders.com/pictures/public/04-views/49%20-%20Glacier%20Lake%20-%20Iceland.jpg

Check out this URL for original blog posting and complete rules: http://blog.lendingclub.com/2010/03/25/lending-club’s-photo-contest-2500-in-prizes/

10 Tips for better writing for your Travel Blog or Twitter Account:

1. Decide on your point
2. Plan what you are going to write
3. Use short sentences
4. Use plain English
5. Use active voice
6. Be conscious of your verbs, adverbs and adjectives
7. Get to the point
8. Avoid hedging
9. Use examples
10. Don]t be too thorough

Click the following link  for full detail and original blog: http://bit.ly/aSEonk

Ultimate Culinary Vacation in Italy

Check it out A Grand Prize and some lesser prizes for 5 more winners…6 chances for a win! (the 1st Prize Winner get’s a cool Italian Espresso Maker!)

Contest Rules: [Contest ends June 14, 2010]

ONE (1) FIRST PRIZE: Italian Espresso Maker. ARV: $800.

ONE(1) SECOND PRIZE: Bertolli meals for a year. Prize will be awarded as two (2) meals permonth (valued at $8.99) for twelve (12) months awarded in the form of gift card(s) (giftcards may be subject to expiration dates and restrictions may apply). ARV: $215.76.

ONE(1) THIRD PRIZE: Baci Chocolate for a Year (chocolate will be sent in 4 shipments over thecourse of a year). ARV: $150.

ONE (1) FOURTH PRIZE: Riedel Vinum Chardonnay StemwareGlass set. ARV: $120.

ONE (1) FIFTH PRIZE: William Sonoma Demitasse set. ARV: $80.ONE (1) SIXTH PRIZE: Italian Cheese Sample Pack. ARV: $40.

of course see all rules at site to check for  yourself…

https://yahoo.promo.eprize.com/bertollisweepstakes/display_page?page=rules

Secured Traveler’s blog is now integrated with Twitter!  Our posts will be cross-posted on Twitter automatically.

Aspenologies presents our new Blog for Travelers, Students, Business Professionals, and anyone that loves (or has to) travel!  We offer great Tips & Techniques for ensuring a safe, healthy and successful trip.  We uncover the Best Travel contests and travel opportunities and bring them to you.  We hope you will enjoy our new Blog and check it frequently.   Regards, THMS at Lost Travels

Tools ‹ Lost Travels — WordPress.

Excellent Video for those that travel with an I-Phone.  Recently, on a trip to Switzerland I used my I-Phone quite a bit, not realizing how expensive it was to just even have powered on.  If you retrieve e-mail, or hook into the standard mapping app, it will suck down bandwidth like no tomorrow.  Returning home, I was greeted to a $400 AT&T month end bill.

TIP: If you forget and travel abroad, you can ask for the charges to be redone based on having a retro-active plan added to your account.  This might cost you 1/4 of what the total expense would have been.

Check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGCg5lxQn4

More on I-Phone Travel usage soon!!!

Traveling alone should not cause anxiety.  Today’s Hotels are full of Business men and women that are typically traveling solo.   It’s easy to just sit by yourself while having breakfast and keep your head down reading USA Today, but I challenge you to getting out of your shell.  Try asking to be seated where another guest may want to join you.  This way, you can meet a new person, have some conversation, perhaps have a cocktails buddy while you are at the hotel, and they may have some great tips on where to eat or what to see while in a foreign destination.  THMS

The Main Great Features of the  Secured Traveler Product

Secured Traveler 4GB (Encrypted) Flash Drives are a combiniation of a Biometric Drive coupled with Intiutive and sophisticated Personal Data Storage Software.   Each drive is very sophisticated, but extremely easy to use.  Features include:

• Waterproof (can be submerged in water but will still work after drying off)
• Mobile (take with you anywhere when traveling)
• Very fast (super fast compared to most other drives)
• Large capacity (1, 2 and 4GB drives available)
• Allows for  quick synch to Home computer for back-up needs which allows for loss of Home PC in case your PC crashes, is stolen or natural disaster
• Allows for any file on your PC to be encrypted or decrypted (on the pc using the software from the drive)
• Screen saver of jpegs of your choice when plugged into a PC
• Lost wallet application for ICE (In Case of Emergency)
• Scheduler
• Task reminder
• Calendar
• Emergency contacts
• Medical details
• Credit card quick view
• Auto Backups
• Auto Saves
• Remote E-mail change for drive
• Biometric 256Bit Encryption
• Secured and non-protected drive partitions
• Plug-n-play and NO installation of software to PC
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed after purchase for up to 1 year
• many other features…

The drive allows you to keep it on your person through Airport Security as it is 99% plastic.    Plugging it into any other Windows-based computer (for instance an internet cafe or Hotel computer) will not leave any trace of its program once the drive is removed.  All information is stored only on the drive.  Screen shots of this product and more information is available at www.SecuredTraveler.com