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Shannon Albert

ThatTravelSpark.com to share awesome, fun and hopefully useful info that she's collected and to connect with other travel freaks. She loves the planning part of travel as much as the traveling itself. Shannon's background includes working as a web developer and as a digital producer for an advertising agency. She lives in Texas with her husband, 2 kids and dog. New York City is her favorite city. She also maintains a personal blog at shannonalbert.me.

Colin Wright

Colin Wright is a minimalist, branding expert and serial entrepreneur. While running his blog Exile Lifestyle, his branding studio Colin Is My Name and his e-publishing business ebookling, Colin travels the world (moving to a new country every 4 months), meeting up with amazing people, giving talks (to audiences ranging from tech industry professionals to college students to Catholic school girls) and hunting down new and interesting experiences.

Bobby Laurie

Bobby Laurie is a lead flight attendant for a low-cost airline based in California and resides in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Technology with a degree in Mass Media Communication and now combines both his passion for writing and travel by blogging about his travel experiences and flying the friendly (sometimes!) skies. Besides Flightster, his work can be found on his flight attendant blog Up Up & A Gay and Examiner.com. Bobby also serves as co-host of The Crew Lounge podcast which invites listeners to take a peek behind the airplane's galley curtain. He has also contributed to various media outlets such as The New York Times, AOL's Find a Job and WalletPop.

Alan Perlman

Alan Perlman travels the world as an international cost-of-living surveyor. When he's not hunting for the price of female undergarments in places like Syria, Rwanda and Turkmenistan, he's hanging out in Boston, MA, dreaming up different paths for his life to take. You can read more about Alan and his plans to conquer life at his blog, The 9 to 5 Alternative.

Lauren Rains

Lauren Rains is a crazy, sexy, cool chick on a mission to live a life of abundant adventure, meaning, and substance. She is addicted to the following: WORLD TRAVEL: Experiencing new languages, cute boys, outdoor adventure, crazy transportation, variations on toilets, cultural differences and similarities, crazy food. Everything! WEB 2.0: Web design to social media, she's proud to be a dedicated geek. ENTREPRENEURSHIP: At 12 months she knew she couldn't work for the Machine. WRITING: Check out TheMadtoLive where she blogs about how to live the wild, crazy and meaningful life we're all meant to live! You can also start up a conversation with her about the meaning of life on Twitter at @LaurRains.

Jools Stone

Jools Stone is a journalist and travel blogger based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His blog, He Thought of Trains, chronicles the highs - and occasional lows - of travelling by train in an age of budget flights. His ambition is to see as much of the world by train as possible, or at least make it out of Europe before hitting 40. In doing so, he'd also like to persuade more people to travel by train more often. You can follow him on twitter @jools_octavius

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