I reviewed 500 Places for Food and Wine Lovers for Wandering Educators. My mouth was watering while reading details of the eats from restaurants and markets around the world. This is a great guidebook!

One of Smart Poodle Publishing’s favorite websites of all time is WanderingEducators.com - not just because I am a contributing editor - but because this site provides readers with essential content about traveling and geography. Publisher Jessie Voigts is one of the most brilliant and creative people I’ve ever met. And as you can see from these photos, she’s got a way with the camera. She was generous enough to share them with us. They were taken in her home state of Michigan. Thank you Jessie!

All photos © Jessie Voigts, PhD

If you’d like to read my latest guidebook review (Rio an Buenos Aires) on her website, you can find it here.

On Wandering Educators I reviewed DK Eyewitness Ireland. It is a fabulous guidebook, and it will make you want to book an Ireland trip immediately! Please check out the review by clicking here.

As you know, I am the Geography Awareness Editor at Wandering Educators, a great site for travelers and those dreaming about taking a new journey. You’ll find excellent articles, travel tips, photographs, guidebook reviews, and a lot more.

Well, publisher Jessie Voigts, PhD is hosting a big event on her site tomorrow to celebrate the One Year Anniversary of Wandering Educators. Wandering Educators is giving away a ton of great guidebooks, children’s books, gift cards, travel games and more!

How to win great prizes in the Wandering Educators 1st Anniversary Giveaway Party:

1. Register at www.WanderingEducators.com - it’s free and easy and keeps the site spam-free. (Signing up will NOT result in you receiving junk emails)
2. On April 20, leave a comment on ANY article on the site - you’ll be automatically entered.
3. Check in every hour on April 20 for prize updates.
4. Use Twitter to retweet details about the giveaway and you’ll be entered for special prizes.

Here is a list of the co-sponsors (Including us!!)
Amanda Koster, Bridgedale Socks, BedandBreakfast.com, Barbary Chaapel, DesignerOcean.com, DK Eyewitness Travel,  Donna Seim, Eat Smart Guides, Family Adventure Guidebooks, Fodor’s, Frommer’s, Good Night and God Bless, Indie Travel Podcast/Indie Travel Guides, Inkwater Press,
IrishFireside.com, Joel Carillet & AuthorHouse, Krista Perry Dunn, Lamplighter Studio, Little Cream Books, Living Mindfully, Lonely Planet, Mapping.com, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Newcomer’s Handbooks, Noambit.com, Not For Tourists, Out of the Box Publishing, Oxford University Press, Peter E. Randall, RED ROCK TV, Roaring Forties Press, Rough Guides, S1- Safety First, Smart Poodle Publishing, Tonia Goslett, Travelfish.org, TurkeyTravelPlanner.com, whereamiwearing.com, and Wine Travel Guides.

P.S. Jessie Voigts, PhD is one of our new I Love Cost Rica’s Rainforest! Contest judges! How perfect is that?

Oval Beach, Lake Michigan

Saugatuck, Michigan

Incredible Winter Photos shared with us by Jessie Voights, PhD

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I wrote a guidebook review for Wandering Educators. 24 Great Walks in New York by Frommer’s. It’s really a great book providing new insight for exploring the Big Apple! Please check it out. If you are traveling anywhere in the world, wander around the Wandering Educators website for other guidebook reviews and articles as well. There’s so much useful content on this site!

6 -year-old Lillie, reporter from www.wanderingeducators.com reviewed Lilly Badilly today, and we are celebrating here at Smart Poodle! Please check it out.

“One of my very favorite books, EVER, is called The Travel Adventures of Lilly P. Badilly: Costa Rica (and not only because we share the same name).”

Take a few minutes to browse around the Wandering Educators website too. There is a ton of great info there if you are going to travel, thinking about traveling, are wondering about the world or wandering about the world!