After two months and almost 12,000 entries, our 2009 Dream Trip Contest is just hitting its stride. For inspiration for your own entry, and a chance to win a $25,000 vacation to wherever you choose, read our take on a submission that caught our eye:

Author Isabel Fonseca captures Barbados's many facets--and its British charms--in her article "This Earth, This Realm, This Little England," in the July issue of Condé Nast Traveler, on newsstands now. In another take on Barbados, Dream Trip entrant iolaiola focuses on the island's bucolic side and meditates about the importance of human connections.

"This cow is alone in this field and appeared content," iolaiola writes in the Dream Trip entry "Cow in Solitude," a study in misty skies, green grasses, and brown bovine. "Why is it that animals don't need the company of their own, but humans do? Taking this picture, I recognized how we must appreciate all human company; we couldn't survive without it."

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