Jessie

I’m Going to BlogHer 2008 in San Francisco

Date: July 8th, 2008 |

I’m going to be attending my first blogging conference next weekend in San Francisco - BlogHer 2008, which runs from July 17th through the 20th. If any of you are going to be there, send me a note to let me know. It’d be great to meet some fellow travel bloggers in person! I’m not [read more]

Infecting Your Kids With the Travel Bug

Date: April 5th, 2007 |

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I’m not a parent, so I don’t know how this works first-hand, but it seems that if you loved to travel your kids could either be as excited about getting on a plane as you are, or they could be really peeved at you every time you showed them their tickets. I don’t know what [read more]

Letter to a Young Travel Writer

Date: April 2nd, 2007 |

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I saw this link on the BootsnAll boards today, and it amused me. So I’m sharing it with you. Yes, it would certainly appear that the job of “travel writer” would be a dream job - the life of leisure, and all that. While being a travel writer beats the hell out of some jobs [read more]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Date: March 17th, 2007 |

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Here’s wishing a Happy St. Patrick’s Day to Irish folk the world over, and all you Irish wannabes, too. Between your pitchers of green beer, be sure to check out the great lesson our Ireland Logue friends have given us on the history of St. Patrick. You might just learn something.
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Boot Baby #2 is Here

Date: March 9th, 2007 |

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Newsflash - the BootsnAll crew is growing up, getting married and (gasp!) having children!
Most of you know that Bali Blogger Nick got married a few years ago and is now the proud father to Jevon, otherwise known as Boot Baby #1. He’s an adorable kid who’s lucky (or unlucky, depending on how you look at [read more]

New Feature on the BootsnAll Boards: Tags

Date: June 15th, 2007 |

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I’m exceptionally pleased to announce that something we had talked about at last year’s year-end meeting has been rolled out today on the BootsnAll boards - tags. For all you bloggers out there, they’re the same kind of tags you already know and love. And for anyone who thinks I’m talking about those things in [read more]

Hey, does this office smell funny to you?

Date: April 3rd, 2007 |

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I’m back to working in the office for the next few weeks (or months, not sure yet) after having worked at home since last September, and it’s a nice change. I mean, I love my cats, but they won’t converse with me. At least my coworkers will. I think.
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Starting a BootsnAll Blog

Date: March 22nd, 2007 |

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A friend of mine who works at the local coffeeshop is leaving in a few weeks to begin her Peace Corps career as a teacher in Bulgaria. She’s all kinds of excited and nervous all rolled into one, and she stopped me this morning when I went in to get my warm beverage to ask [read more]

Why I Love What I Do

Date: March 15th, 2007 |

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I really do love my job, and yet there are moments when I’m apt to forget why what we do here at BootsnAll is so cool. Even saying we’re here to help out the independent traveler doesn’t come close enough sometimes. So when we get feedback from customers like the one I read today, it [read more]

RTW Travelers Popping Up Everywhere

Date: February 25th, 2007 |

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In my Italian 1 class this term, I’ve got two students who are trying to learn the basics of a few languages as they prepare to embark on an around-the-world journey. They’re both taking Italian and Russian this term, and have between them some experience also with French and Spanish. They tried to teach me [read more]