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Being a Good Resource Isn’t About Knowing Everything
Date: July 13th, 2009 |
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You know how sometimes you learn something so gradually that you don’t realize how much you know about it until someone asks you a question and you blurt out an answer without realizing you had that information in your brain at all? I’ve begun to feel that way about travel in general, and specifically about [...]
[read more]Moving to Italy: So Close, but So Far
Date: July 8th, 2009 | 7 comments
As some of you know, I spent a month in Italy not long ago. And if you’ve been following along for awhile, you’ll also know that I spent six weeks in Italy last Spring. Nearly every time I get my hands on an airplane ticket it’s got “Italy” as the destination. Since I’m the author [...]
[read more]Go figure, business travel isn’t what I thought it’d be.
Date: June 30th, 2009 | 3 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 [...]
[read more]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 [...]
[read more]“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 [...]
[read more]“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, [...]
[read more]What can change in 14 years? In Prague, quite a bit.
Date: May 21st, 2009 | 4 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 [...]
[read more]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 [...]
[read more]Travel Writers We Like on Twitter
Date: March 9th, 2009 | 36 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, [...]
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BootBlog is the company blog of the BootsnAll Travel Network, a company that has been connecting travellers since 1998. Our goal is to inspire, educate and cultivate an organic community of independent travellers. But what does that mean? Well, we love to travel and we love to connect other travellers who have the desire to get out and see this great world of ours. BootBlog will showcase what is going on around the office, around the company and within our community of travellers.Top Categories
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BootsnAll Travel Network is launching a Facebook application to connect travelers. Portland, Oregon June 21, 2010 -- BootsnAll Travel Network has created a Facebook application -- BootsnAll Traveler Connect -- that helps connect travelers. The app lets you find other travelers going to the same place you are, or connect with locals living there. Users can ask travel questions, arrange … [Read more]
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It's been awhile since we had a BootsnAll member stop by the office. However, thank to a recent post on the message boards wondering where the Boots Crew were these days, we managed to arrange lunch with Bideshi, aka Mike (blue shirt below).
With a couple of stints working in South …
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Awhile back I posted here about getting into the Boston Globe Travel Show for free. Turns out that was for the trade conference during the day on Friday Feb 19th, not the travel show for regular consumers like you and me that runs from the evening of Friday, February 19 to …
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