Go figure, business travel isn’t what I thought it’d be.

Date: June 30th, 2009 | 2 comments

There was a time back when I was young and foolish when I thought I knew what “business travel” looked like. It looked like men in business suits carrying leather briefcases. I’ll admit to being old, but I’m not old enough to remember the 1950s firsthand - and yet that’s kind of the image I [...]

Travel is Good. No, Really.

Date: June 24th, 2009 | 1 comment

On my last Sunday in Italy during my most recent visit, I spent six and a half hours having lunch with some new Italian friends. (And as an aside, if anyone had any remaining questions about why I love Italy, let me reiterate that one lunch lasted six and a half hours. Case closed.) The [...]

“Budget Travel on the French Riviera” - Julie’s Radio Interview

Date: May 27th, 2009 | 1 comment

I wasn’t the only one who got interviewed on the radio - our resident Francophile, Julie, was asked to divulge her best secret spots on the French Riviera. Places that are both less expensive than the more famous spots, and also less crowded. She may regret giving up state secrets like that eventually, but for [...]

“Using Twitter for Travel” - Jessica’s Radio Interview

Date: May 26th, 2009 | No Comments

If you follow me on Twitter, you probably saw me mention that I was being interviewed by a local Portland radio station’s travel show about the article I wrote a month or so back, “To Use Twitter for Travel or Not to Use It: Is That Really the Question?” They wanted to talk about Twitter, [...]

What can change in 14 years? In Prague, quite a bit.

Date: May 21st, 2009 | 3 comments

When I was in college and preparing for my semester abroad in England, I remember talking with a friend about a side-trip I was probably going to take with my Swiss cousin to Prague.
“Prague is depressing,” she said. “Pretty, but depressing.”
Turns out, she’d visited the city during a high school summer trip to Europe, back [...]

How Working in the Travel Business Changed How I Travel

Date: May 12th, 2009 | 3 comments

Whenever those of us at BootsnAll tell people what we do for a living, one of the first questions we get is, “Ooh, do you get to travel all the time?” It’s one of those questions where no matter how you answer it you’re kind of screwed. If we say, “Why, yes, we travel all [...]

BootsnAll Staff on Twitter

Date: March 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve highlighted the travel Twitter accounts that we particularly like - travel companies on Twitter and travel writers on Twitter - and along the way, we’ve been mentioning various BootsnAll Twitter accounts as well. But for this final Twitter-related post, here’s a list of all the BootsnAll Twitterers. Not [...]

Travel Writers We Like on Twitter

Date: March 9th, 2009 | 33 comments

Last week, I wrote about some of our favorite travel companies on Twitter - and while I love seeing companies in any industry embracing Twitter, I think most of the great travel Twitter conversations are happening between the travel writers themselves.
Whether these people write for their own blog, a group-maintained blog, or someone else’s website, [...]

Travel Companies We Like on Twitter

Date: March 2nd, 2009 | 3 comments

While some people say that Twitter has already gone mainstream, until I can tell my mother I saw something on Twitter and have her look at me with anything but a blank stare I don’t buy it. Still, it’s definitely growing like crazy - and at BootsnAll, we’re big fans of Twitter. So much so, [...]

Time Waster Fridays

Date: February 20th, 2009 | No Comments

A few different videos to help you waste away a Friday afternoon this week.

Fan rocks out to Bon Jovi on the Jumbotron
Letterman makes the best of an ‘absent’ Joaquin Phoenix
Time lapse video of a walk from Beijing to Germany. Pretty cool

Thanks to the Good Experience Newsletter and @ben_coop for the finds.
And don’t forget to check [...]