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There's a 95 percent chance Senior Editor Christine Sarkis is thinking about travel right now. Follow her on Instagram @postcartography and Twitter @ChristineSarkis.

Christine Sarkis is an SATW-award-winning journalist and executive editor at SmarterTravel. Her stories have also appeared on USA Today, Conde Nast Traveler, Huffington Post, and Business Insider. Her advice has been featured in dozens of print and online publications including The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, and People magazine. She has also shared travel tips on television and radio shows including Good Morning America, Marketplace, and Here & Now. Her work has been published in the anthologies Spain from a Backpack and The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008. She is currently working on a travel memoir.

The Handy Item I Always Pack: The Trtl Pillow. It's easy to pack and comfortable, and makes it so I can actually sleep on flights.

Ultimate Bucket List Experience: Seeing the Aurora Borealis from the comfort of somewhere warm, like a glass igloo or hot spring.

Travel Motto: Curiosity is an amazing compass.

Aisle, Window, or Middle Seat: Aisle all the way.

Email Christine Sarkis at editor@smartertravel.com.

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My co-author, Josh Roberts, and I just found out Today in Travel has been selected as a finalist in the Best Informative/Practical Travel blog category of the 2007 Travvies, the travel blog awards from the Upgrade: Travel Better blog. It’s just a regular blog lovefest.

I tell you this because we’re excited about being included, and because if you’re so inclined, you can vote. I’m not suggesting early and often or anything like that, just mentioning the correlation between the voting window of right now to February 28 and the TnT (as we call it when we’re too lazy to write it out) name on the ballot. Also, and more selflessly, it’s a pretty interesting list of travel related blogs, broken into categories such as best destination blog and best photography.

And if we win, Josh promises not to pull a Sally Field. Right, Josh?

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