Notes from Travelers

Travel Blog to Watch: One Year on Earth

Date: August 24th, 2007 |

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You know all those times when you find a really cool blog about a RTW trip, but the traveler is already midway through the trip so you have to spend inordinate amounts of time (at work, let’s be honest) catching up to then read along in real time? While it’s fun to have that kind [read more]

BootsnAll Traveler Makes Television Debut

Date: July 9th, 2007 |

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Every so often we at BootsnAll get phone calls or emails from reporters or writers who are doing stories about travel and are looking for some real-life travelers to speak with. Last fall, I got a call from a television reporter in the Washington, D.C. area who wanted to interview someone locally who was going [read more]

Ted Sabat - Notes from Guyana

Date: June 14th, 2006 |

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Ted Sabat, who lives in Guyana, dropped us a note, story and travel tips all rolled into one -
I must be one of your oldest active members at 61 years. Still active is the “Word” since I started my adventure travels in 1951, when my mother took me from London to spend a year [read more]

Kelly in Europe

Date: February 23rd, 2006 |

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Kelly Amabile has been doing some great writing on EurailBlog this past week. She’s going to be roaming around the country for the next 5 or so months, taking on life in the EU. You can follow her on her personal blo [read more]

Hong Kong Blog

Date: September 15th, 2005 |

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I think it was late 2004 when Ed Hahn dropped by the BootsnAll PDX office for a quick visit. We cracked open a couple beers and chatted about travel. Ed lives in Hong Kong and offered to share his knowledge about the place. Naturally we offered to set up a blog for him and it’s [read more]

How to Pack Light - Really, Really Light

Date: July 12th, 2007 |

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Every experienced traveler knows the value of packing light, but how light are we really talking about? Does packing light mean you’re bringing less stuff so it can all fit in one bag, no matter what it weighs? Or are we talking about putting stuff on a scale and making your bag not only smaller [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]

Patting Our Backs

Date: March 7th, 2006 |

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Ever since BootsnAll started in 1999, we’ve been approving all of our member apps by hand. Honest. We think it’s important - not only because it keeps away the spammers (mostly) but also because we like to welcome people personally. And sometimes, they even write back and say cool/random/neat things, like Nancy:
The [read more]

Response to our Bali focussed newsletter

Date: October 6th, 2005 |

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I am a concierge with a Best Western Hotel outside of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. I always look forward to your reporting and your comments. I am very appreciative of your trying to keep things in perspective for world travelers. We have over 5 million visitors in this area and a good portion of [read more]

Dhow Information

Date: September 1st, 2005 |

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Info from a BootsnAll member:
Dhow is a typical Arabic craft. It was originally employed as a cargo-ship by Arabian traders sailing the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. I had the chance of sailing by dhow [read more]