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Matador is sponsoring the Roads Scholarship.

04/22/09

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Q: What’s better than a road trip? A: A road trip funded via scholarship. Photo: wili_hybird .

Everyone at Matador has been so amped on community member Pat the Digital Vagabond’s Roads Scholarship that we decided to sponsor the event. Look for chapters from the winning writer’s travelogue here at the Notebook.

If you haven’t yet heard about the Roads Scholarship, here’s the basic outline:

The winner will be paid a stipend of $1,200 a month to travel North America this summer (June through September of 2009).
The winning writer will get to share their travel articles and photo essays on Digital Vagabonding.com and here at Matador.
The winner will also get a ticket to the Burning Man Festival, which is held during the last week of August in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
Two runner up winners will also get free tickets to Burning Man.
Winners will be chosen in May 8, 2009 and their journey will culminate the first week of September at Burning Man where the Digital Vagabonding tribe will welcome them home.

For more details, as well as how to apply for the scholarship, please check Digital Vagabonding’s Road Scholarship. And if you’ve never heard of Burning Man, that alone is worth checking out.

We can’t wait to see who gets this first scholarship. There are also rumors floating around of some kind of crazy launch party. Whoever gets this thing is going to be stoked.

Tagged under: Burning Man, Digital Vabgabond, matador, the roads scholarship

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David Miller is Founding Editor of the Traveler's Notebook and Senior Editor at Matador . His personal blog is here.

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Pat the Digital Vagabond replied on June 1, 2009

Announcing the Digital Vagabonding Roads Scholars – Class of 2009

This spring we received 101 proposals from aspiring travel writers seeking to road trip North America this summer on a “Roads Scholarship”. It was tough to choose just one winner, so we chose five.

To see who’s been chosen, view their proposals and register to follow their adventures, visit Roads Scholarship at http://www.digitalvagabonding.com/road-scholarship. This years scholarships are being co-sponsored by the outstanding travel community – Matador Travel. Special thanks to Matador and their talented team for helping us promote this scholarship.

Given the talent and vision of these Roads Scholars, I expect they will take us all on an amazing journey.

Whether you travel or not, be well and live large.

Pat the Digital Vagabond

The Ultimate Trip is the Journey Within.

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catherine replied on August 21, 2009

hello,
I stumbled on your website today as I searched for travel destinations. I love to travel, especially to unconventional destinations. How does one acquire the road scholarship for 2010. Is it open to non US citizens?
Thank you

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