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Biggest Baddest Bucket List Countdown

Newtown Woman in final countdown for bucket list competition.

The My Destinations Biggest Baddest Bucket List Competition will select one person to travel around the world for six months and write about their experience as a travel writer/blogger for them. It is my dream job.

I will be graduating from Western Connecticut State University in May with an MFA in creative and professional writing. Multimedia writing and historical fiction have been my primary focus of study at WestConn. You can find out more about me at www.amcannon.com.

It seems like this contest has been going on forever. I submitted my entry to the My Destinations Biggest Baddest Bucket List competition just around two months ago and have weathered the roller coaster ride of campaigning to get votes for my travel video, photos and blog post. At 6017 votes and out of hundreds of entries, I am currently in thirteenth place. Once voting closes on March 31, the contest people will select 10 finalists to fly to London in the middle of May for a vigorous final competition round. The ten finalists will be comprised of the top five for votes and then five more selected by the judges based on a combination of quality of their travel video, blog and photos; and popular vote, which is why I am still vigorously campaigning for votes. 

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Some of the points that give me a leg up in the competition include: the contest people found my writer's profile online and suggested that I enter, thus I was already on their radar; another is that I am a decent writer with multimedia writing experience, which is just the type of background needed to fulfill the six month position of travel writer; and last, but by no means least, I am a seasoned world traveler.So I am appealing to you, my community to:  A) to vote for me (or continue to vote for me) by going to my Biggest Baddest Bucket List: My Destination: Hampshire page and, if you haven’t already, watch the destination video I produced, read my blog post I paused in April on a Footpath, and enjoy the breathtaking images from that hike, B) spread the word that you know someone who is in hot pursuit of her dream and tell them how they can help (people like to help, especially when it involves passion and dreams, it gives them permission to think about their own dreams)

P.S. You vote by clicking on the social media share buttons in the green box next to My Destination: Hampshire video

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