Moving Forward

I'm excited about what one of my favorite organizations, Venture Expeditions, is doing, and thought I'd give them a little shout out and post their latest video update here. It's pretty cool...they're launching something called Venture Local which will help people raise money for issues they're passionate about, all while staying in the Twin Cities or wherever you live. So if you don't have time to commit to a huge Venture trip, yet still want to be involved, you can now do that. And I think that's so awesome. So check out what Aaron and Ryan have to say, and give them some props, a shout out, comment, whatever, and let them know how excited you are about it, too :)

The Next Chapter from Venture Expeditions on Vimeo.

Hiking for Hope

So a couple months ago I was asked to write an article on human trafficking for the NCU magazine, and since I hadn't done anything of the sort for quite some time, I was all for it. I really enjoyed writing it, since I am passionate about the issue, and I was able to feature an awesome organization, Venture Expeditions, as well as an incredible girl named Renae Post, alumni of North Central and uber-passionate about the issue of human trafficking, as well. It was just a great mix and I'm happy to say I'm super excited about how it turned out :-). The NCU marketing guys sure made this look good! Props to Jeff Hathaway and Ryan Decker and team...you guys rock!

Venture has also been kind enough to post the article on their blog, so here's a link to it if you'd like to check it out there.

I'm also including a link to NCU's online magazine...just page through until you find the "Hiking for Hope" spread :-)

AND, as if you weren't tired enough already of the article...I'm including a picture of it...because...well...not about to float my own boat but totally want to give a shout out to NCU's graphic design guys...I think it looks sweet and Renae and Venture definitely deserve the feature.

So all in all, I'm just a wee bit excited about it :-) Hope you enjoy, it's hot off the press!

Blog from Talkin' Travel

If you're like me and longing to go someplace warm right now...I'd suggest the Riviera Maya, Mexico :-) Just a little something I wrote for the Delta Vacations blog :) Enjoy!

http://blog.deltavacations.com/2011/04/riviera-maya/