Travel/Geography Game

Purely by accident, I found out http://www.tripadvisor.com/ has a travel/geography game called World Challenge. You have to locate on a map various cities throughout the world (in some cases the map doesn't show the city and country as they are too small for the map so you have to click in the vicinity of where the city would be located) or in a certain part of the world such as Canada or Europe. You have less than 15 seconds to guess each one. The game has 12 levels with each level getting progressively harder. If you manage to score in the top 20, you get to be in the top 20 list where everyone gets to see your score, the level you reached (always level 12 if you want to be in the top 20) and your travel IQ Your travel IQ can be any where between 0 and 200. When you've finished playing you can save your score and see how you did in relation to others that played the game Ex. my best score was 570,037; level 12 with a travel IQ of 155. That put me at 1,674 on the list. My mind boggles at the folks that have scored 670,000 plus in this game. It is seriously hard and challenging. It'll definitely help you learn geography

Tripadvisor

I've been writing a few posts for a website called Tripadvisor. The sites features reviews on restaurants, hotels, and things to do by ordinary people like you and me. This means in theory that the reviews likely to be more honest. As far as I know, no one receives any kind of compensation for writing something nice about what they write about on the site. I was surprised to find out no one had written an article on the Maryland Renaissance Festival. In my opinion, this festival is one of best things Maryland has every year. I can't wait to go again this year.

Another thing I've done is provide information on the Baltimore/Washington D.C. Medieval Times. As I'm a semi-expert on the place, I thought I could provide lots of basic information on it that might be of use. The only annoying thing I've had with my article is I keep remembering things to add after the fact. I've edited the article something like 6 times.

If you're knowledgeable about sights in your area and would like to tell people about them, check out http://www.tripadvisor.com and write a few articles. Then, you can be something of an amateur travel writer which is kinda neat. Cheers!