We all think we can be travel writers if we just had more time to travel. After all, schoolteachers have asked us to write "what I did on my summer vacation" for years. So what's so hard about doing it again?

Truth is, sharing your experiences in a meaningful and entertaining way is pretty darn tough. Believe us - we wade through hundreds of letters and emails that, frankly, you don't want to read. Meanwhile, we`re looking for the next great travel writer - someone who has an original way of seeing the world and bringing it alive on the page or the screen.

So give us a great story and we`ll give you a great trip - and, perhaps, a new career.

We`re asking students all over North America to send us a 300-word essay on a travel experience that moved you, excited you or changed you. The author of the winning essay will travel on assignment to Mongolia with National Geographic Traveler`s Editor-in-Chief Keith Bellows, courtesy of Travcoa. Even better, the winner will have his/her story published on the National Geographic Traveler website.