About Pam

Pam Mandel is a freelance writer who loves a road trip as much as just about anything, if not more. She’s an avid car camper, a better than average campground chef, a reasonably skilled photographer and oh, yeah, she’s been blogging about travel for nearly 10 years, which makes her ancient in dog years. She’s headed to Chicago on the TBEX road trip because she’s reading at the BlogHer Community Keynote, presenting on a panel of travel bloggers at BlogHer, and speaking at the TBEX conference. Plus, hey, she LOVES a road trip.

Pam was shortlisted for the Lonely Planet Microblogging Awards. She’s presented at SxSW, the Oregon Governor’s Conference on Tourism, and the Adventure Travel Show. She’s worked on guidebooks, read stories for National Public Radio, and published her travel writing in a handful of print and web publications. She’s currently the contributing travel editor for BlogHer, she’s on the Blogger Advisory Board for Uptake, and she’s a co-founder of SCOOT, the Seattle Consortium of Online Travel. She’s also one of the four bloggers that launched Passports with Purpose, a travel blog driven initiative that raised 7000 dollars for Heifer International.

Pam’s obsessions include the pursuit of extremely high quality baked goods, the ukulele and all things Hawaiian — including the islands themselves, and travel, of course. You can read more about Pam and see her photo work (and that of her sharp-eyed husband, an understated Austrian guy who shuns the limelight) on her blog at Nerd’s Eye View.