Why I started My Travel Bug, Inc.

I believe I can change the world.

I believe in education and the expansions of horizons- literal and physical.
I believe travel is educational. It teaches communications skills, tolerance, history, politics, art, music, economics and sometimes, wonderfully- activism.
I believe travel is essential and life affirming not just a luxury.
I believe in the power of the Internet to break down barriers, shatter prejudices and let the light of learning shine.

I believe in combining education, travel and the Internet.

So I need help with my idea. It's called My Travel Bug, Inc.
We have a small Fellowship program. Fellowship winners are required to write travelogues and take pictures of their trip(s) while traveling.
These stories and pictures are published online at www.MyTravelBug.org for the education of everyone.

I’d like to reach a wider audience.
I want to connect Fellows directly with school classrooms while they’re traveling.
I want to have live online conferences with our traveling Fellows.
I want to produce an educational CD- Rom, free to schools and libraries, of these travelogues plus background information about the countries where they’ve gone.

I believe these Fellowships will go very far indeed, around the world, into classrooms, online and into your consciousness.
I believe we can change the world, one trip at a time.