Help Send MountainMama to NYC, Win Money & Give to Charity

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I’m a sucker for entering contests where the prize is a fabulous travel experience. But unlike that “Best Job in the World” promotion sponsored by Queensland Tourism (where more than 34,000 people — including me — created clever videos to enter), I’m now up for a prize that I could actually win.

trazzlerpowellI’m one of 200 semi-finalists (out of about 900 entrants) in the Trazzler #NYCGO writing contest. If enough Trazzler.com members “wish list” my short article (aka “Trazzler trip”) about boating on Lake Powell, I could be one of 10 writers to reach round three, after which judges vote on a grand-prize winner.

The grand-prize? A fabulous $10,000 contract to write 30 more Trazzler trips about New York City. To write said trips, the winner also gets a 2-week trip to New York — courtesy of NYCGO.com, Jet Blue and AKA luxury hotel residences. Killer, right?

But I need your help. And it’s super easy.

Just click on this link, which should take you to my Lake Powell trip. If you are already a Trazzler.com member, all you have to do is sign in, click “add to wishlist” below the photo, and you’re done.

If you are not a Trazzler.com member, you will be guided to a “sign in/sign up,” page, where you can join by entering your username, password, email (you can opt out of receiving Trazzler emails). You can also sign in easily with your Facebook email/password.  Either way, once you sign in, you can click “add to wishlist” on my Lake Powell trip, no problem.

The 10 trips that are most often “wishlisted” by September 14 enter round three. If that happens to me, at the least I’ll earn $250 to write 10 more Trazzler trips, but I’m hoping my prose will wow the judges enough to send me to New York City!

Here’s the kicker: If I do win the grand prize, I’ll donate half of my $10,000 cash prize to charity. I figure I have so much to be thankful for these days, so I’d like to help out some organizations that have been helpful for me in recent weeks. I’ll give $1,000 each to the Prostate Cancer Foundation and my local Valley View Hospital Foundation; the remaining $3,000 I’ll spread among other other non-profit causes I support (nothing political or controversial — our family giving tends to be for charities that support needy children or educational efforts).

The remaining $5,000 from the cash prize (or “fee” for writing 30 NYC Trazzler trips) I’d use to pay taxes on the grand prize (in total it’s valued at nearly $20,000 with the accommodations and plane fare) and to buy off thank my husband and other family members who would step up with child-care duties to allow me to move to New York for two weeks. I suppose I’d need cash to eat and drink in NYC, too.

Thanks so much for helping me advance to the finals of this writing/social-media contest. Just let me know you wishlisted my trip, and I will happily join, click, Stumble, Digg anything for you in the future. I truly believe what goes around comes around. You scratch my back, I’ll absolutely scratch yours.

Any questions? Shoot me an email.

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September 3, 2009 | Filed Under Travel News 

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2 Responses to “Help Send MountainMama to NYC, Win Money & Give to Charity”

  1. tawnya says:
    November 17, 2009 at

    really good!!
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  2. high peaks climbing, mount everest, annapurna himalaya says:
    November 20, 2009 at

    oh, it’s very nice way of getting joy in our life

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