Blogs of Travel

My name is Asdghik Melkonian and i’m a travel blogger & entrepreneur trying to balance my adventures and real life. I come from a very diverse & multicultural background, which got me jetsetting since I was only a few months old! I’m originally Armenian, but I was born in Lebanon and I’ve lived half my life in New Jersey and the other half in Beirut. I know… crazy mix right?

Melissa is a travel writer by trade, who spent five years creating location-based articles for publications including USA Today, Trails, and SurfandSunshine.com. After leaving the nomadic lifestyle behind to become a successful marketing director for a leading online womens brand, Melissa found herself continuing to travel every chance she could, often going on getaways three out of the four weekends each month. With her passion of traveling remaining relentless, Melissa decided to leave the corporate lifestyle behind to return to her wanderlust roots, but this time creating her own company: The Jetsetters Guide.

I'm Kevin Casey, professional copywriter and global explorer. I fund all my overseas adventures through freelance writing - and you can too!

Right now I am taking the biggest step though. I’ve taken a one year leave of absence to travel to Oceania, focussing on Australia, but considering New Zealand and other islands as well. A hopefully fantastic adventure. This website, thejourner.be, is where I report on these journeys..

Welcome to The Journeyist travel blog featuring stories from the sea to the slopes and sometimes everything in between. Authored by Terry Lankstead, editor of GoodLife Magazine in Mississauga, Ontario, many of the articles have already been published but fresh stories could surface here from time to time.

From a young age, I was fortunate to have parents who offered me opportunities to see the world and introduce me to many exciting places which instilled in me a passion for travel. As my wanderlust grew, I journeyed to more than thirty US states and at least that many foreign countries, visiting four continents.

Former fat-girl turned travel blogger sharing travel tips, local business treasures, adventures and life lessons here in my corner of the Internet world.

So why ‘The Kiwi Has Landed’? – Well, a kiwi is a term affectionately given to people from New Zealand and also by ourselves. Plus I have a compulsive tendency to plan trips, board planes and ‘land’ in amazing places around the globe, hence The Kiwi Has Landed!

The purpose of this blog is to give some life to the pictures, share with people who for multiple reasons can’t travel and inspire other people to start/continue traveling.

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