You Be The Travel Writer

AFAR magazine recently came up with a clever way to get readers to interact with it: It invited them to write and submit a "One sentence travel story." I'm going to "take" this page from AFAR, and give you the chance to get your own "short" travel story "published."

One sentence "stories" are not enough, of course, to fill up pages and pages of travel magazines or the travel sections of newspapers. But travel writers often pen them as the "lede" (nope, not a typo --- just journalist jargon for the start of a story) hoping to "hook" the reader into continuing to the next sentence, the next paragraph, and on to the very end of the piece. To give you an idea of what such a "lede" might look like, here's the one I submitted to AFAR:

"In London, on the thirtieth and last day of a month long trip to Europe, we found Gesus (pronounced "Jesus") who would liberate me and my wife from shopping boredom (but alas, not from our sins of gluttony committed over the last month) and show us the way (past purses and shoes, the fabric department, and the Christmas shop, and finally to a good Chinese lunch at a reasonable price)."

Write your own travel story, in one to three sentences, and post it in the "Comment" section at the end of this post. You'll get your "Fifteen Seconds of Fame" and, with a little luck, maybe you'll get "discovered" by a travel magazine editor.