2025 February Featured Journalist of the Month: Barbara Marrett
Barbara is an award-winning travel journalist and former long-time contributing editor at Cruising World Magazine. She has written for The Seattle Times travel section, been a columnist for Northwest Yachting magazine and a host of other travel and boating magazines. She is co-author of the travel adventure book Mahina Tiare, Pacific Passages, and loves off-the-beaten-track travel. […]
2025 February Featured Journalist of the Month: Christopher Hoelzl
Christopher is a TV producer and co-founder of the Parks Channel. He was part of the founding executive team that started the Smithsonian Channel, and before that I worked for Discovery and wrote for Time-Life Books. He is originally from Colorado and love the outdoors. His TV career has allowed me to pursue his passion […]
2025 February Featured Destination of the Month: Visit Central Florida
Visit Central Florida represents Polk County, Florida. Conveniently located between Orlando and Tampa, Polk County offers something for everyone including Florida’s Newest Attractions. Rediscover your inner child at LEGOLAND Florida Resort and the adjacent Peppa Pig Theme Park – which opened in 2022, go wild at Safari Wilderness Ranch and tee up at Streamsong Resort. […]
2025 January Featured Journalist of the Month: Bonnie McKenna
My name is Bonnie McKenna. I grew up in California. I am now in Texas, and as the saying goes, “I got here as fast as I could.” I have been traveling all my life, as a child, the entire summer was spent on ‘road trips’ traveling around the western United States. As a young […]
2025 January Featured Journalist of the Month: Charles Poe
Charles Poe is an Emmy- and Peabody-winning filmmaker whose work has appeared on National Geographic, Smithsonian and Discovery. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Parks Channel, a new destination for video, photographs and articles to help users discover amazing places and to make the most of their trips. The Parks Channel is available […]
2025 January Featured Destination of the Month: Visit Beaumont, TX
On the border between Louisiana and the Lone Star State, Beaumont is a little bit Cajun, a lot Texan, and 100% unique for the South. We made history as the place where oil changed the world forever and are constantly reinventing ourselves and finding new reasons for people to visit from birding and biodiversity to […]
2024 December Featured Journalist of the Month: Bob Cooper
Bob Cooper writes extensively about travel, especially active/adventure travel. His travel stories have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Traveler, AARP: The Magazine, Global Traveler, Budget Travel, Ensemble Vacations, Porthole Cruise, Via, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other outlets. He specializes in writing about California and the U.S. West. 1. What […]
2024 November Featured Journalist of the Month: Ian Fitzpatrick
Entering his second decade as a travel journalist and podcaster, Ian has traveled the world with his wife Tonya as the co-founder and co-host of award-winning World Footprints, dedicated to connecting conscientious, socially-responsible travelers all over the world. Having covered Olympic and Paralympic games in Vancouver, Sochi and Rio as well as traveling to places […]
2024 November Featured Journalist of the Month: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Tonya Fitzpatrick, Esq., co-founder of World Footprints, a multi-award-winning social impact travel media platform grounded in the Ubuntu principle, “I am because we are,” was appointed by Maryland Governor Wes Moore to the Maryland Tourism Development Board. She has proudly served on NATJA’s Board for several years. Nominated for Travel Unity’s DEI Champion Award, and […]
This month in North Little Rock (10.1.2024)
Things to do in September in North Little Rock (as of 10.1.24) *denotes FREE admission Full calendar of events: https://northlittlerock.org/events October is here with huge events like Argenta Dogtown Throwdown, North Little Rock Airshow 2024, 12th Annual Central Arkansas Pride Fest and Parade, and Argenta Vibe Music Series: Nick Shoulders! There is no shortage of things to do in North Little Rock this October. […]
