Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about the staycation. Apparently, more and more people are choosing not to take flights or road trips, and are using their vacations to stay home and get pedicures instead. According to MSNBC, it all has something to do with the combination of high gas prices and something called a “recession.”
I wouldn’t know about that. But until Donald Trump returns the private jet he borrowed from me last Christmas, I’m afraid I’m stuck at home along with everyone else. Lucky for me, I’ve got WEbook to keep me entertained. My fellow WEbookers hail from all over the globe, and they’re all here to share their stories. Who needs Paris when I’ve got “The Real Paris?”
If Donald Trump stole your jet, too, here’s a list of great WEbook projects that are guaranteed to transport you somewhere other than your living room.
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Destination: New York City
Project: New
York Undercover
Tour Guide: tahrasep
Mode of Transportation: Non-fiction insider’s guidebook articles. “There’s Times Square, and then there’s New York City.”
Who’s Invited: All WEbookers can read, write, and leave feedback.
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Destination: Africa
Project: Africa’s
Sons, Africa’s Daughters
Tour Guide: AkindeleDecker
Mode of Transportation: Non-fiction essays, poetry. “I see a vision for Africa. One that involves and integrates the minds, the intellects, the theories, and philosophies of the likes of our past intellectually enlightened storytellers.”
Who’s Invited: All WEbookers can read and leave feedback. Only the Project Leader can write.
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Destination: Dublin
Project: Dirty Old Town!
Tour Guide: jamesmcshane
Mode of Transportation: Fiction and non-fiction stories. “New York is the city that never sleeps. Dublin is the city that's never sober.”
Who’s Invited: All WEbookers can read, write, and
leave feedback.
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Destination: Kansas
Project: Jake River’s Kansas
Tour Guide: jakerivers
Mode of Transportation: Fictional short stories. “I was a runner. From about the time I could walk I ran everywhere and all the time. We lived out in the country, kinda north of Wichita along the Little Arkansas River, a nice area called Pleasant Valley.”
Who’s Invited: All WEbookers can read and leave feedback. Only the Project Leader can write.
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Destination: Louisiana
Project: Louisiana: Every Man a King
Tour Guide: MDWillis
Mode of Transportation: Fiction and non-fiction stories, poetry. “From S'port to N'leans, from Texas to Mississippi, from past to present.”
Who’s Invited: All WEbookers can read, write, and leave feedback.
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Destination: Ireland
Project: Irish
Interest Stories and Poems
Tour Guide: Breagadoir
Mode of Transportation: Fiction and non-fiction stories, poetry. “Bringing together stories and poems that have some connection with Ireland.”
Who’s Invited: All WEbookers can read, write, and leave feedback.
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Destination: China
Project: China Trip, Summer
2007
Tour Guide: jRphillip
Mode of Transportation: Non-fiction memoir/journal. “I got to see China as a tourist, but I also got to see kids my own age up close and personal in their school. I even got to go home for lunch with them!”
Who’s Invited: All WEbookers can read and leave feedback. Only the Project Leader can write.
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Destination: Michigan
Project: Lake Superior Tales
Tour Guide: Mikel
Mode of Transportation: Fictional short stories. “The first Governor of Michigan, Lewis Cass was quoted when first seeing Lake Superior in 1820, ‘There are four Great Lakes and then there's one that's Superior.’”
Who’s Invited: All WEbookers can read and leave feedback. Only the Project Leader can write.
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Destination: Las Vegas
Project: Vegas Undercover
Tour Guide: AmyHa
Mode of
Transportation: Non-fiction insider’s
guidebook articles. “Vegas vacation
ideas that leave the dice in the dust and the cards on the table.”
Who’s Invited: All WEbookers can read, write, and
leave feedback.
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Destination: Everywhere
Project: Ex-Pat Journal
Tour Guide: Sarah
Mode of Transportation: Non-fiction essays. “Nothing makes you appreciate home like living somewhere else.”
Who’s Invited: All WEbookers can read, write, and leave feedback.
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Know a great project you’d like to see written about in the WEbook blog? Have a fantastic idea for a feature about a particular type of writing you’ve seen a lot of on WEbook? Visit my profile and drop me a note with the subject: Featured WEbook Project. I’ll check out your tip, and the best of the best will live in infamy on the pages of this blog.
-- Melissa
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