Our 2009 Dream Trip Contest is reaching the homestretch, with just three more weeks to enter for a chance to win a $25,000 vacation to wherever you choose. In some two-and-a-half months, we've had nearly 13,000 entries. For inspiration for your own entry, read our take on a submission that caught our eye:

Dream Trip entrant funksoulbrotha captured this image, an almost prototypical shot of a leisurely stroll in the City of Light.

"I remember being enchanted with the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris," funksoulbrotha writes in a Dream Trip entry. "The Paris of my imagination lived there, where children ran around, an old musician played an accordion, and oversize hedgerows made me feel like Alice in Wonderland."

Share your travel photos and memories in our 2009 Dream Trip Contest. You could be just a few clicks away from a $25,000 trip to anywhere you choose.