A couple of weeks to go until my first travel blogger conference, TBEX Canada in Toronto. Excited does not begin to describe it. I will be traveling for starters, taking the train, VIA Rail Canada, in to town in style. I have met some fellow travel bloggers in person, but this will take it to another level. Having the chance to meet, talk, hangout with and see Toronto with other travellers I have connected with online is unbelievable.
Business cards and a media kit will be along for ride as well as an outgoing and upbeat attitude ready to learn from some of the best in the industry. I’ll soak in as much as I can. If I have the chance, giving an idea or tip to someone would be cool too.
Besides travel blogging, I also do web development professionally which takes up a lot of my time. Mornings, evenings, weekends, vacation days, working remotely, wherever I can squeeze some time in, I enjoy what I am truly passionate about, traveling. I’m good at the web dev and pick up technology quickly, but my heart is in writing, photography and being out on the open road experiencing everything this world has to offer. Who knows what this trip will do in turns of The Adventures of elATLboy. I’m ready to find out!
It will be my first conference too! I’m a little nervous as I am so new to this that I don’t even now my niche yet.
I am enjoying your blog. Hope to see you there!
Excited, but nervous too. My niche just kind of evolved based on my interests. 🙂 Thank you for the kind words, hope to see you there too!
It’s the best when your passion is your job. More power to you!
Trying to follow my passion as much as possible! 🙂
Hope to run into you there!
Ditto! 🙂
It will be a great event & we’ll finally get to meet the people we’ve been talking to online for some time now 😉
I am certain great things await! More travel & road trips are on the radar for sure.
See you soon 😉
On the conference and meeting everyone, definitely! 🙂 Look forward to more time roaming and on the open road.
It will be awesome & can’t wait to meet all the other travel bloggers we’ve been talking to for some time.
See you soon 😉
First time for me too. Love your business cards and logo. Nerves are adding up-but excited. Looking forward to hearing more about the train trip. That sounds like great fun!
Thank you Alison! I’m excited and nervous at the same time. Hope to run into you there. The train ride in will be fun, looking forward to the experience. 🙂
First TBEX for me! Totally forgot to update my business cards so thanks for the reminder! Can’t wait to meet everyone! Toronto – here we come!
Glad I could help. Ditto. Toronto, it’s almost that time! 🙂
Looking forward to it as well. See you there!
Great times ahead! See you then. 🙂
Have a great time! I went to the very first TBEX in Chicago in 2009 and met a lot of great folks there! Hoping to be able to get back to another TBEX conference once of these days – will be interesting to see how much its grown since that very first one.
Thanks Dominique! Very excited and a little nervous at the same time, will be an awesome time I’m sure. They are saying 1000+ to attend this year. Hope you can make it to another one soon! 🙂
I think there were less than 200 at the first TBEX, and it was a one-day conference tagged on to the end of BlogHer. What was nice for me that particular time was that it was in Chicago…so Tim met me there for a few days after the conference and I ended up with a slew of stories and photos I could post to Midwest Guest 🙂
I didn’t know such a thing existed – but it sounds amazing!! Will be looking forward to reading about it!
They seem to be getting bigger and more frequent. Excited about getting to my first. Lot’s of posts and pics upcoming for sure. 🙂