Beth Blair
Beth Blair is known as TwinCitiesGal at TheVacationGals.com, since she’s a newly minted resident of Minnesota, after having lived in Arizona for eight years. A member of the Society of American Travel Writers and a flight attendant, Beth covers all aspects of travel in her writing – from the aviation industry to road-trip tips to exotic destinations. She also writes about lifestyle, bridal, culinary and spirits topics for such publications as AirTran Airways GO magazine, Draft, Arizona Bride, Tucson Bridal, Christian Science Monitor and numerous others.
Beth has contributed to many anthologies, including Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and she can also add the adjective “award winning” before her name: she won first place in the 2010 Writer’s Market “Freelance Success Stories” contest. When she’s not on the road with her husband, two young children and her two teenage step-sons, you’ll find her decorating her new home, working out at the gym or indulging her photography obsession.
Learn more about Beth at her portfolio website, BethBlair.com and follow her on Twitter @BethBlair.
Catherine Boley
Catherine Boley is a blogger for Trekaroo, a reviews website dedicated to helping parents explore and travel with kids. At Trekaroo, you’ll find thousands of parents like Catherine are sharing the inside scoop on attractions, hotels, and restaurants.
Now a stay-at-home mom of two creative kids and an awesome cat, she carts her family all across the Bay Area and beyond in search of cool places to eat and play for the BayAreaBabyBlog and Trekaroo. Catherine grew up as an Army brat, living and traveling all over the world (kicking and screaming, she might add). When’s she’s not in pursuit of the next hot place for kids, she’s busy advocating for progressive education, autism awareness, LD support, indie music and photography.
Scott Carmichael
Scott Carmichael, a married dad of a three-year-old girl, has lived in 5 countries, has traveled 3 million miles and has spent over 1000 nights in a hotel room. Scott has spent his entire life traveling, but recently settled down in the US Midwest. His articles appear on Gadling.com and AOL Small Business, and are regularly featured on the AOL home page.
Scott is a specialist in travel products and gadgets, and never leaves home without at least 2 mobile phones and a bag full of cables. Scott is a member of the Travel Insights 100 – a group of travel influencers who love to share their passion for travel.
To read more articles by Scott, please visit Gadling.com.
Amy Allen Clark
Amy Allen Clark is the Founder & Creator of the MomAdvice.com community where she shares advice on parenting, money-saving ideas, recipes, and organizing solutions for parents. She has been featured in Redbook Magazine, Parenting Magazine, Parents Magazine, New York Times, Ladies Home Journal, & All You Magazine. The site has been growing strong for over six years now, an unexpectedly wonderful adventure that has brought many fun opportunities for Amy and her family. No accolades could hold a candle to her favorite job… the unbelievable notoriety of being the mom to her two amazing children and wife to her supportive web designing husband.
Sharlene Earnshaw
Sharlene Earnshaw is an Orange County, CA, based writer with a serious addiction to travel and a passion for the outdoors. While she spends much of travels with her four year old twins, she also has an appreciation for an adult getaway every once in a while. Sharlene admits to having a bit of a National Parks obsession, and has plans to take her children to every park. She is also filled with plenty of travel information that she loves to share with anyone who will listen.
Sharlene graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Communication and serves as Blog Editor for the family travel website, Trekaroo. She also writes a family column for her local online newspaper, and freelances for several online publications.
You can follow Sharlene on Twitter and catch her latest blog posts for Trekaroo on Facebook.
Esther Lee
Esther Lee is a mom of a two year old and co-founder of Trekaroo, a reviews website dedicated to helping parents explore and travel with kids. Through Trekaroo, she wants to inspire families to keep traveling and exploring the world. The contributors of Trekaroo already know that it takes a community to raise a child. It’s no wonder that it’ll take an even larger community to raise a child who loves to travel and loves the world and people he/she lives among.
The travel bug bit her on her first flight to Taiwan when she was two. She’s never recovered. For her, travel isn’t just about the things that you see, but the people you meet who are as unique and diverse as transportation vehicles in this world. Travel is a lifestyle that involves family, friends and people who we have yet to know and care for. For Esther, it also involves a constant hunt for the best ice cream cone in the world.
Grant Martin
Grant Martin is the Editor in Chief of Gadling.com. Based in Chicago and originally trained as a Materials Scientist, Grant’s career in travel writing began three years ago when he started a personal travel blog cataloging all of outstanding airfare available from his hometown. He moved into the corporate world shortly thereafter when Gadling opened a position for an airline blogger. After months of formatting, designing and writing, he was moved to editor.
Now beginning his second year behind the editor’s desk, Grant manages the daily content on Gadling, finds and vets creative contributors, cultivates business relationships and continues to write about the airline and travel industries. He further has contributed to assorted travel publications including National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel, Frommers and Business Traveler while he continues his full time work as a Materials Scientist. When not behind an electron microscope or his notebook, he can usually be found on the Frisbee field or in an airplane.
This year’s travels have included New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Ireland, France, Brazil, Senegal, Honduras and Switzerland, wile his next scheduled trips are to Portland and Hong Kong.
You can read more of Grant’s work over at Gadling.com.
Lisa McElroy
Lisa Tucker McElroy, a married mom of two school-aged daughters, regularly publishes articles and essays about marriage, parenting, and family in national magazines and websites such as Parenting, Cooking with Paula Deen, Vacation Byways, and Family Travel Network. Lisa and her books have appeared on the Today Show, CNN, the Satellite Sisters, NBC Nightly News, and many other radio and television programs. She and her books have been featured in People, Time, Parents, and other newspapers and magazines across the country. She is also the author of ten books for children.
To read more by Lisa, visit Suiteliving.com.
Jennifer Miner
Jennifer Miner, otherwise known as SoCalGal at TheVacationGals.com, is surprised to find herself living in Southern California, after spending most of her years on the East Coast. A travel expert and whiz at search-engine optimization, Jennifer has appeared as a guest on several radio talk shows, and she has spoken at such popular blogging events as BlogHer and the Type-A Mom Conference. Her blog posts have been picked up by the websites belonging to CNN, Fox Business, Reuters and the Chicago Sun-Times. She also has an interest in eco-friendly, culinary and family travel, which she also writes about for such sites as Fodors.com, Uptake.com and AffordableTours.com.
With two Masters degrees from Columbia University, this mother of two has an extensive background in counseling and psychology. These days, Jennifer focuses on freelance travel writing, with a weekly luxury column at Suite101.com, and when she’s not traveling back to her roots in New York, she’s vacationing with her family in such favorite spots as Hawaii, Italy, Napa Valley and Sedona.
Follow Jennifer on Twitter at @jenniferminer.
LiLing Pang
LiLing Pang is co-founder of Trekaroo, the award-winning community of travel savvy parents. Trekaroo has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Mashable, Women’s Day Magazine and Daily Candy for it’s accessible and practical family travel tips from real parents . Originally from Singapore, the island nation that is addicted to food of all types, she now calls the San Francisco Bay Area home.
Having traveled extensively from a young age, LiLing continues to find every excuse to hit the road and immerse herself in new cultures. She believes strongly that travel is a tremendous vehicle for developing young minds and imparting cross-cultural understanding. Her focus is on helping parents overcome the challenges of traveling with kids and finding fun ways families can explore together. Prior to writing about travel, LiLing was a market researcher and a web producer. LiLing is also an expert in volunteer management and community building. Inspired by what passionate communities can accomplish together, she has fostered Trekaroo to be the collective wisdom and voice of traveling families.
When she’s not advocating for the interests of families within the travel industry or exploring with her two boys, you’ll find her volunteering at the co-op school her boys attend or cooking up a feast.
Jamie Pearson
Jamie Pearson is a writer, mother of two, and founder of the of the award-winning family travel website, Travel Savvy Mom. Her writing has appeared in Parenting magazine, the Utne Reader, and in the award-winning anthology Toddler: Real-life Stories of Those Fickle, Irrational, Urgent, Tiny People We Love. Jamie lives with her family in Palo Alto, California and travels extensively with and without her children.
You can read more from about Jamie and her work at Travelsavvymom.com.
Kara Williams
She’s ColoradoGal on TheVacationGals.com, and she and her family regularly explore their home state and the U.S. Southwest with their pop-up camper in tow. Kara has worn several hats in her two-decade editorial career – newspaper reporter, corporate copywriter and magazine editor to name a few.
Today she’s a freelance writer and member of the Society of American Travel Writers. Her recent travel pieces have appeared in such publications as Every Day with Rachael Ray, Porthole, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Denver Life and Chesapeake Family. Online you can find her work at Fodors.com, Grandparents.com, GoColorado.com and PracticalTravelGear.com. She’s won awards for her writing from the Parenting Publications of America and the Colorado Press Association.
Kara Williams makes her home in the Colorado Rockies with her husband and two children. Other family favorites, and frequent, destinations include Hawaii and Mexico, as well as Kara’s childhood home state of New Hampshire.
Learn more about Kara at her personal site KaraSWilliams.com and follow her on twitter @karasw.
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Amy Allen Clark is the Founder & Creator of the MomAdvice.com community and proud mom of two amazing children.
Our Bloggers
- Beth Blair
travel-planning mastermind - Catherine Boley
destination devotee - Scott Carmichael
leisure trip consultant - Amy Allen Clark
traveling supermom - Sharlene Earnshaw
passionate travelholic - Esther Lee
hot spot enthusiast - Grant Martin
sightseeing aficionado - Lisa McElroy
hotel and lifestyle expert - Jennifer Miner
travel tipster - LiLing Pang
vacation guru - Jamie Pearson
budget travel whiz - Kara Williams
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