As I was writing this post, the 2010 Bloggie awards were being announced.  A beautiful, and always interesting read, Camels and Chocolate won in the Travel Blog category.

The overall winner also won best writing and best design. Needless to say, The Pioneer Woman is a worthwhile stop on your daily blog tour. Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to the Bloggies.

Here’s our February count-down.

Most Popular Posts

1. On a travel Tuesday, I went to a museum in Sweden and learned that King Gustavus Goofed.
2. The movie Julie and Julia. People debated the merits of the book and the blog that led to the movie.
3. For our first stop on our Great American Road Trip, Massachusetts, I talked about a new book, Dogtown–an offbeat and rather spooky destination.
4. In 4P we talked with writer and photographer Peter West Carey about his fund raising efforts for an ambitious trip and he shared some favorite travel literature. (He hit only 1/3 of his goal, but is currently in Africa for a month.)
5. Our fourth stop on the Great American Road Trip, Maine , meant lobster and lobster fishing. Everybody had an opinion about lobster ice cream.

Readers Who Comment (A Lot!)

In the past, I have named 5 readers who comment 5 or more times.  I am happy to report that the chat-level has risen considerable in the library–and this is one library where there is no shushing of conversation.

In February, the following community members contributed more than TEN times:

• Anjuli made the most comments in the past month, and claims she is getting buried by all the books I recommend. She blogs at bhulbhulaiyan (which I have not asked her to translate.)
• Jessie Voigts, of Wandering Educators, made the new, bigger number list. Thank you loyal friend.
• Alexandra Grabbe always gives us a shout from out on the edge of Cape Cod where she runs a green bed and breakfast, Chezsven, and blogs about it.
• Richard Mussler-Wright doesn’t have a blog, but that is okay, ’cause he has plenty of interesting things to say right here.

And these folks posted five or more:

• Laura Baran, the luckiest person I know, won the Hotel Monteleone trip in the Passports with Purpose drawing and then won Three prizes in the Great Travel Literature Giveaway that launched the year here. Happily she commented 7 times, even without the promise of prizes.
• Kerry Dexter, my partner on the Great American Road Trip, who suggests Music for the Road over at Music Road, paid us five visits. Always glad to see you Kerry, because you always have good information–like where to get Lobster Ice Cream!

I was thrilled to see a bunch of people commenting three or four times, and lots of brand new faces this month. Please come back next month, all of you.

People Who Send Traffic Our Way

I’m skipping over the obvious referrals that come from Google searches, photo searches, Facebook, Twitter and Stumble Upon.  Here are some people who helped A Traveler’s Library in February, and how they did it:

• The Bloggies Yes, when we were nominated for best travel blog, it meant that lots of people got curious.  Thank you Bloggies for sending nearly 500 viewers, mostly new! (To put that in perspective, the other top referrers total just over 100 visitors.)
• Lonely Planet A Traveler’s Library shares much of its comment with the Lonely Planet site as a selected Blog Sherpa.
• FoXnoMad Anil did a lovely guest post for A Traveler’s Library, and then talked about it on his site, so people came back here for a look.
• Travel Blissful Erica Johannsson mentioned the post, Piano Shop on the Left Bank in one of her “Must Read” posts and her readers dutifully came here.
• Wandering Educators, where I do a guest column each month.

And, finally, three who sent ten each:

• Music Road, where each Wednesday, we trade links to promote the Great American Road/Music Trip.
• Mothering, where I left a comment sent some traffic here.
• Mother of All Trips has A Traveler’s Library on the blog roll.

I hope that you can find something of interest here, and if you are a blogger, you can learn something that will help you in the future. Meanwhile thanks to ALL the readers, and to ALL the contributors and commenters, and special hugs to those whose links drive traffic to A Traveler’s Library.