Let's Go!

It should come as no surprise to hear that I'm addicted to travel. The beautiful sights and monuments, and the rich (sometimes juicy) history surrounding them really get me going. When I first moved to Paris I only had with me a few essentials, which of course included guide books to Paris, France, Italy, and Western and Eastern Europe from a student budget travel series by which I swear, Let's Go. Recently I'd wondered what it might take to put my pen to their pages, and I'd don't just mean my personal copies of their texts. Exploring their website, I discovered that they have Let's Go bloggers, so I submitted a recent blog entry and crossed my fingers.

Yesterday, I glanced at my inbox while drearily analyzing some data in lab to discover this note [cue happy dance] :

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in blogging for Let’s Go, and we're happy to let you know that you've been approved as a blogger on Letsgo.com!

We loved the blog you submitted as a writing sample (in fact, feel free to resubmit it as your first blog!). Blogging for Let’s Go brings you into a company with over 50 years of tradition. Countless readers visit our site daily, looking for stories and advice. Your blogs will help to inform their travel (and hopefully entertain them as well!).

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Happy travels,
The Let's Go Team

Omigosh! I am now a real, legitimate travel blogger! For a real company! And not just any company, but the one that has been my source of travel inspiration! And yes, I did just type all those exclamation marks in the same paragraph. !!