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IT—Inside Traveler
By Jessie Johnston and Emily King

March 2, 2007:

You Really Like Us!

If we could travel back in time to Oscar night, we would admonish our past selves for being so critical of people's acceptance speeches. As the recipients of the first-ever Best Travel Blog award from the Travvies, we now completely understand how hard it is to express gratitude in an articulate, brief, sincere, and non-tedious manner. (Especially since even if you do get it right, like Sally Field in 1985, you'll still be misquoted.)

Thanks are due, however, so we'll do our best and hope you won't reach for the remote: Thank you, thank you, thank you! We couldn't have done it without the support of all our readers, both old hands and those of you who discovered us because we were nominated. We hope you'll all keep reading (and telling friends, family, and strangers on the street).

We also want to offer our congratulations to all the finalists, against whom it was an honor to compete, and to the winners in all the other categories: Exposed Planet for Best Photography on a Travel Blog, The Cranky Flier for Best Single-Author Travel Blog and Informative/Practical Travel Blog, our friends The Lost Girls for Best Group-Written Travel Blog, and NewYorkology (a regular IT read) for Best Destination Blog. We'd also like to cordially invite all of the winners to contribute guest posts to future posts of IT. Stay tuned for their sure-to-be-awesome contributions.

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