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About GoGirlfriend.com

GoGirlfriend.com is a niche blog that focuses exclusively on travel for women, products and tips. Highbrow or budget, hot spots or off the beaten path, eco-friendly, sustainable and smart travel choices, we're the place to:

  • Be Informed - Imagine, learn and sort through travel dreams
  • Get Inspired - Create solo, family, dream and business trips
  • Get Connected - Share memories, photos and videos with our gal pals

It's a place to gab with the girls, kibitz about silly stories and find little ways to live our travel dreams - if only on our desktops.

Freedom to travel is multi-faceted. It can mean timeCrater HikeCrater Hike away with friends, days filled with laughter, nostalgia and new experiences. It can be seeing the Pacific Ocean for the first time, shutting the Blackberry off to enjoy a lung-busting hike up El Capitan or a quiet walk along a Barbadian shoreline.

Travel at GoGirlfriend.com is an attitude - it's a girlfriend thing.

About Julia Rosien

Editor Julia Rosien began her travel writing apprenticeship as a child. Her fondest memories involve stale cheesies, flat orange pop and squabbling with her brothers in the backseat of a station wagon. Gogirlfriend on a Princess CruiseGogirlfriend on a Princess CruiseFormer senior editor of a national pregnancy magazine and correspondent for newspapers like the Boston Globe and Chicago Sun-Times, Julia has visited every Canadian province and almost every American state. She's as comfortable submitting to Watsu therapy as she is revving her ATV for mucky trek through the Northern Ontario or soaring above the Rio Grande in a hot air balloon.

While Julia leaves extreme adventuring to her intrepid travel cohorts, she'll do just about anything to experience a story for her readers. Especially when she's rewarded with a spa treatment at the end of the trek.

When Julia's not jetting her way to her next greatJulia RosienJulia Rosien adventure, she's a social media strategist and communications director for a natural and organic mattress manufacturer.

  

 

Julia Online

Julia Offline

  • Former college-level writing instructor
  • Former writing instructor at a Canadian women's prison
  • Contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul, Chocolate for a Woman's Soul
  • Contributor to national publications including Health, Women's Health, Wedding Style, The American Bar Association Journal, CBC Radio, Conceive, Chicago Sun-Times, The Christian Science Monitor and The Boston Globe.

Social Media Reach

Our Audience

As a travel site dedicated to serving the needs of women making travel decisions, we're committed to bringing real travel stories about real people to life online.

Dude Ranching for GirlsDude Ranching for GirlsWomen travelers today demand "real" experiences - from immersion into local cultures to personal access and privileges beyond the ordinary. Call it "luxury-off-the-beaten path." Experiential travel is the hot ticket and "authentic" is the prevailing buzzword in the industry.

Go Girlfriends Demand

  • Smart, sexy and sophisticated articles
  • Community that shares travel info on health, safety, fitness and wellness, shopping, destination hot spots and tourist traps
  • Fresh, energetic content that enriches, educates and entertains

Pitch Policy or Do's and Don'ts

  • Get my name right. Seriously. My name is Julia, not Julie, Jules or Julian. If you send me an email with my name wrong, it goes into my virtual circular file.
  • Read my pitch policy before reaching out to me. A generic press release is of no interest to me and a waste of time for you. Instead, send me an email with a brief summary of your product or idea and let me know why it suits GoGirlfriend.
  • And while we're here, you have read a few posts, haven't you?
  • If you send me a free sample I will only blog about it if it adds value to GoGirlfriend - and I'll let my readers know it was a freebie.

If you think we share common interests, I'd love to hear from you. Email me!

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