Budget Your Trip is an online platform that helps travelers to plan and track their travel budget. It allows them to search for cities and countries around the world and calculate estimated costs for whichever kind of trip they choose from budget to midrange and luxury. My part is to contribute descriptions for particular locations, giving visitors insight to the essence of the place and what it has to offer in sights, activities, food, neighborhoods, and transportation. I also write for the blog on a regular basis. Below are some examples of my work.
Blogs
Spending a Summer in Newport, Rhode Island
Festive Fall Days: A Tour of Festivities, History, and Seasonal Fun in Massachusetts
Canyons & Cliff Dwellings: A Sampling of the Southwest
Beyond Volos: A Hidden Oasis in the Land of the Centaurs
Childhood Adventures by the Sea in Maine
Life on the Road: Canada
Life on the Road: The Great Lakes
Life on the Road: The Upper Midwest
Life on the Road: The Great Plains
Life on the Road: Wyoming & Yellowstone
Life on the Road: Lassen Volcano
Burgundy by Barge: The Right Way to Wine (blog post for G Adventures, promoting a trip by National Geographic Journeys)
United States
West – Redwoods National Park/CA, Mt. Lassen Volcanic National Park/CA, Sequoia National Park/CA, Idaho, Boise/ID, Death Valley National Park, Roswell/NM, Cody/WY, Montana
Midwest – Michigan, Minneapolis/MN, St Louis/MO
Northeast – Portland/ME, Round Pond/ME, Bar Harbor/ME, Bangor/ME, Acadia National Park/ME, Maine, Ocean City/MD, Woodstock/NY, Lewisburg/PA, Hershey/PA, Newport/RI, Vermont
South – Georgia, Blue Ridge/GA, Valdosta/GA, Cumberland Island National Seashore, Jekyll Island/GA, Saint Simons Island/GA, Savannah/GA, South Carolina, Hilton Head Island/SC, Columbia/SC, Greenville/SC, Beaufort/SC, Virginia, Richmond/VA, Arlington/VA, Alexandria/VA, Charlottesville/VA, Norfolk/VA, Roanoke/VA, Shenandoah National Park, Destin/FL, Gainesville/FL, Cape Canaveral/FL, Clearwater/FL, Saint Petersburg/FL
Central America
Guatemala – Atitlan Lake (San Pedro la Laguna), Flores, Antigua, Guatemala City
South America
British Islands
Europe
Greece – Mainland Greece – Thiva (Thebes), Delphi , Kalampaka (Meteora), Cape Sounion, Arachova, Volos, Nafplio, Greek Islands – Aegina, Hydra, Heraklion, Crete
Ireland – Killarney, Kilkenny, Limerick, County Donegal
Italy – Cinque Terre, Genoa, Finale Ligure, Imperia, La Spezia, Portofino, San Remo, Sestri Levante, Ventimiglia
Spain – San Sebastian, Valencia, Santiago de Compostela, Granada, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, Bilbao, Cordoba, Northwest Spain, Asturias Principality, Gijon, Oviedo, Llastres, Cantabria Region, Santander, Santillana, Galicia Region, A Coruna, Lugo, Pontevedra, Vigo
Canary Islands – Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Playa del Ingles, Fuerteventura, Corralejo, Lanzarote, Costa Teguise, Puerto del Carmen, Playa Blanca
Portugal – Lagos, Portimao, Albufeira
Switzerland – Zermatt, Lausanne
Sweden – Gothenburg, Sundborn
Austria – Villach, Bad Gastein, Kitzbuhel
Czech Republic – Kutna Hora, Telc, Plzen, Olomouc, Karlovy Vary
Slovakia – Kosice
Hungary – Pecs, Holloko, Siofok, Tihany, Sopron, Debrecen
Romania – Cluj-Napoca, Mamaia, Timisoara, Brasov, Sibiu, Sighisoara
Liverpool/England, Cologne/Germany, Plitvice Lakes National Park/Croatia, Bratislava/Slovakia, Belgrade/Serbia, Aquitaine/France
Africa
Lake Nakuru/Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique
South Africa – Drakensberg, Kruger National Park
Asia
Pusan/South Korea, Cheju/South Korea, Pyeongchang/South Korea, Vang Vieng/Laos, Qatar, Doha/Qatar, Tainan/Taiwan
India – Varanasi, Leh, Srinagar, Chandigarh, Dharamsala, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Amritsar, Lucknow, Maharashtra, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pondicherry, Darjeeling, Kolkata (Calcutta), Orissa (Odisha), Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
Japan – Kyoto, Nara, Sapporo, Nagasaki, Kamakura, Nikko, Atami, Mashiko, Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park, Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, Kanazawa, Nagano, Nagoya, Ise, Kobe
China – Guilin, Yangshuo, Longsheng, Hangzhou, Yunnan Province, Dali, Lijiang, Kunming, Shangri-La, Deqin, Jinghong, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Guangxi Province, Nanchang, Shaanxi Province, Jiangsu Province, Hebei Province
Tibet – Xigatse, Mount Kailash, Qomolangma (or Mt Everest, Nepal)
Philippines – El Nido, Boracay, Cebu, Palawan
Myanmar – Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay
Pacific
Australia – Perth, Hobart/Tasmania, Torquay/Victoria, Blue Mountains/Katoomba, Fraser Island, Noosa Heads