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You can earn up to 5 SBD per accepted submission for guest curating The Daily Sneak. Submission requirements are published at the bottom of each edition of The Daily Sneak.

Today's guest curator is @viking-ventures.

Lori is a photographer, author and student-of-the-world who takes delight in finding undervalued bloggers and helping them find love from the Steem community. Lori's main project on Steem at the moment is serializing her fiction series, A'mara Books.

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The Sneaked Selections

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Cascadia to Aztlan - Crossing Bridges When We Get There

Today, I get to start with the area I grew up in! These bloggers are on a bike trek and in this section, they're biking from Aberdeen, Washington to Oregon. To get there, they cross the mighty Columbia River to get to Astoria, Oregon, the area that I spent the best years of my upbringing! It's a real pleasure to get to share this one with you!

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Switzerland - First Impressions

Next, we go to Switzerland, land of beautiful mountains. I found this article very interesting, especially the observation of how strikingly different Liechtenstein was from Switzerland as they crossed from one country to the next. Fascinating journey and breath-taking pictures here!

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The Tale of Alfie the Armadillo - Not a Children's Story

Next, we have a story. I don't often feature fiction here, but this one is presented like a folk tale (but not one for children!) with a good old fashioned moral. The animals give some good advice, but is the armadillo willing to learn from the experience of others?

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Istanbul and I

Finally, we visit Istanbul. We are treated to a wonderful photoblog of scenery and architecture. I found the interior mosaics to be exquisite and well worth a look and visit. @cristinaaa appeals to all our senses, even our taste buds! Yet another place to visit some day! Thanks for tagging along on this fun adventure!

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Conclusion

Great thematic focus today, though now I need to calm my wanderlust again... Amazing commentary and selections from @viking-ventures! For submitting these excellent articles and commentary, @viking-ventures earns 4 SBD.

Each of these highlighted articles receives full upvotes and resteems from @thedailysneak. In addition, @thedailysneak sponsors featured writers for Steem Basic Income!

Submission Requirements

On to the submission requirements for The Daily Sneak:

1. You can choose from 2 to 5 articles for your entry. Submissions with only one selected article will be ignored.
2. All articles chosen for curation need to have been published within the last 5 days before your entry. It may take time for me to publish your curation, and curated articles need to be within the reward window when your submission is published.
3. You cannot submit your own post for curation. Selections from nsfw will not be accepted. We also check for plagiarism and only highlight original content.
4. Selected posts should have less than $50 in total rewards and have not previously been curated by The Daily Sneak.
5. We try to spread the love around, so while selections from authors that have been highlighted before are welcome, they might not be included if the author's last inclusion was recent. Similarly, if you include two articles from the same author in one submission, we will typically highlight only one of the two.
6. Be sure to include your personal bio for me to introduce you to readers, and make sure that each selection has commentary. This can be just a few sentences about why you think the selection is worth our attention, or what is great about it - something that will make people want to click through the headline and check out the actual article. English is preferred, but other languages will be considered as long as English translation is included.
7. Please use this web form to submit your entry. https://goo.gl/forms/VH2MGIMEgqZmd9ef1
8. Including image links to the source article is not required (and we prefer to leave some mystery if photography is highlighted and the article has only one photo.) However, we like to include images in The Daily Sneak, and not including any image links may decrease the likelihood of your submissions being published.

If you include more than 2 articles in your submission and not all are approved for publication, your submission may still be published into an edition of The Daily Sneak, as long as at least 2 articles are approved. This could happen for several different reasons. If you are unsure why an article was cut, please review the submission guidelines again. If you are still unsure, feel free to ask politely why it was cut.

Submission Reward

A brief biography of each guest curator will be included in the edition that uses their submission. In addition, each guest curator will receive 1 SBD for each article from their submission that is highlighted in The Daily Sneak. That's up to 5 SBD for each accepted submission!

Right now @thedailysneak's upvote is not worth as much as we are paying for guest curation. Why do we pay so much for guest curation? We believe that quality curation is very important to Steem. Paying our curators well encourages them to spend more time reviewing content and picking out the best pieces!

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