Hurry! Today is your last chance to bid on great items in Global Traveler’s online charity auction! Through 9:00 p.m. EST, one auction item will close out every 10 minutes. Join in the high-stakes, last-minute bidding excitement. Several great items are still up for grabs — airline tickets on SWISS, Lufthansa, Emirates and more. Tons of hotel stays are available plus luggage, original artwork and more. As Fran reported in his Monday blog, Loretta Jitner and the Pencils for Kids team are on a mission in Thailand, supplying needy children in the Golden Triangle with much-needed school supplies and other provisions. One hundred percent of the proceeds from our auction will help fund several similar future PFK missions. According to reports from Thailand, the mission has been going well, and it has been an amazing week. The people were welcoming and supportive of Pencils for Kids, and it has been a wonderful experience, one that will stay with volunteers long after they leave the country. You can help create future amazing weeks for children across the world by donating today. It will make all those exotic trips you win that much sweeter. Another exciting opportunity for readers is our Journal Photo Contest. After five years of sharing our favorite photographs from trips around the world on our Journal page, we have decided to open the page up to reader submissions. This is your chance to have snapshots of your favorite memories published in the pages of Global Traveler! -Kimberly Krol, eFlyer editor, circulation and public relations executive