Member Visits
Charles Beauzay
Date: March 16th, 2005 |
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Summer usually sees an up-tick in the amount of people stopping by the BootsnAll office. Portland has been experiencing an early summer this month with temps in the high 60’s and sunny, dry days. But as it so happened, the one day in March where it was drab, grey and rainy was the day Charles [...]
[read more]LiveNomadic: BootsnAll Intern
Date: December 22nd, 2004 | 9 comments
Chris, LiveNomadic and I are sitting around drinking beer, surfing the internet and talking about travel. We just checked out his 1st post of over 2000 posts. Funny stuff.
Chris is LiveNomadic’s given name. He is living in the BootsnAll Hostel for 1 month to intern with us. So far, it [...]
Seattle BnA Get Together
Date: November 23rd, 2004 | 6 comments
Chris and I scurried up to Seattle on Saturday for the Seattle BootsnAll get together. About 15 folks came along for a nite of travel chat, drinking, and a few laughs as well.
I had a blast listening to people’s past adventures and future plans. Some of the ones that I remember are:
Meredith sharing [...]
More special guests for Portland Party
Date: November 5th, 2004 | No Comments
Two more special guests have been added. Check out the bottom of this post to see who!
[read more]Free Beer and Cookies
Date: October 29th, 2004 | No Comments
Luka B stopped by the office last week to talk about her trip and buy a ticket to Bangkok from us. We had a good time drinking beers and talking.
She stopped by 30 minutes ago to pick up her ticket. She also gifted us a 6 pack of Red Stripe and some cookie [...]
Monday Party at the Office!
Date: October 18th, 2004 | 4 comments
So, randomly, at 1:30 on a Monday afternoon, we are sitting around the office, drinking beer. Lucca is from PDX and stopped by to discuss her upcoming trip to Bangkok. Ed is from Hong Kong and he was in town so he decided to swing by. Gabbing with travellers makes for a [...]
[read more]BootsnAll Magic
Date: August 9th, 2004 | 4 comments
I just got off the phone with Nick O’Neill. We talk once a week about what he is up to in Bali and how to keep things going and improving.
At the end of our weekly conversations, after the business stuff comes to an end, we find ourselves conversing like friends, not just [...]
EB is coming to Town and weekend activities
Date: July 14th, 2004 | 5 comments
EB is coming to the Pacific Northwest tonite and wrote a few interesting thoughts on this weekend on his blog:
It’s my party and I’ll puke if I want to
The $20 experiment
We will be going to Thirsty Thursday if you would like to join us tommorrow. Gorge Games on Saturday and maybe a float [...]
Stuff going on this week at BnA
Date: July 12th, 2004 | 4 comments
I haven’t posted here for almost a week. Ouch!
Donovan turns 30 this week. Welcome to old-manhood, mate!
This should be an exciting week for us. BootsnAll member EB will be visiting the Pac NW this week and next and will be around BNA HQ for a few days. He turns the big [...]
4th of July Fun!
Date: July 6th, 2004 | 3 comments
I don’t think that Sean is going to let me run the BootsnAll hostel anymore. This weekend, Katasia came into town. On Sunday night, I took her to a Fourth of July party, where this picture was taken. My friend Shannon is on the left, I’m in the middle, Marta [...]
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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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