There are just two days left in our 2009 Dream Trip Contest! You have only until July 31 to enter for a chance to win a $25,000 vacation to wherever you choose. So far, we've had more than 17,000 contenders. For inspiration for your own entry, read our take on a submission that caught our eye:

In travel, as in life, sometimes you start out looking for one thing and then end up (happily) finding another. So it was with Dream Trip entrant normans, who traveled near Oaxaca, Mexico, to find the Tule Tree, one of the world's biggest plants.

"While I was concentrating on how to photograph this giant biomass, a local father and son duo of musicians came over to serenade me," writes normans in the Dream Trip entry "The Musicians". "Their performance was distracting, so I gave them a few pesos and asked in my poor Spanish that they stop playing. They misunderstood and played even louder until I tried with more vigor and pesos to persuade them to stop. Receiving money to cease playing was beyond their comprehension; the boy's face melted into a look of frustration and bewilderment. My photo of his expression is more memorable to me than all the photos I finally took of the Tule Tree."

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