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You like travel deals?
Date: October 22nd, 2008 |
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We’ve got some for ya. And if you don’t like to remember to go look for ‘em, we’ve got you covered too.
Cheap Ticket Links is the place to find fantastic deals being offered by a large variety of travel companies. And if that’s not convenient enough for you, you can also subscribe via email and [...]
Lure of the Open Road: Road Trip USA
Date: October 14th, 2008 | No Comments
The words “Road Trip” conjure up images of summertime, wide open spaces and possibly a mildly trashy movie. It’s been a few years for me, the last being a road trip down memory lane with Sean to Yellowstone National Park, revisiting the sites that helped us shape the original idea of BootsnAll.
Summertime may be [...]
Armchair Traveling
Date: October 9th, 2008 | No Comments
Traveling can be a frustrating hobby sometimes. For most us, there just isn’t enough money, time, or freedom or take all the trips we’d like. What’s a traveler to do, with big dreams and a small bank balance? Live vicariously, of course. The next best thing to traveling is to watch or read about others [...]
[read more]It’s all Happening on Twitter
Date: October 7th, 2008 | 2 comments
If you’re on of those super tech-savvy people, you’ve probably been on Twitter for ages. It’s a fun tool to keep your friends, family, colleagues, and the public at large updated about such important things as the weather, your mood, and your YouTube discoveries. It’s also great to stay on top of the latest travel [...]
[read more]Planning a Trip is Half the Fun
Date: October 6th, 2008 | No Comments
Christine at Almost Fearless posted a wonderful article last week about travel planning. In Planning Travel, Almost as Good as the Real Thing, she writes
The expectation of travel can be a rewarding pursuit in itself. The side benefit is that well-researched trips not only go off smoother, but seem richer. A course in Art History, [...]
Traveler’s Toolkit 2.0
Date: October 3rd, 2008 | No Comments
Every traveler has questions, whether it’s the first big trip or not. What makes a good hostel? How do I eat well on a budget? How do I get some sleep at the airport? All these questions and more have been answered by travel experts on BootsnAll over the years. Now they’re all in one [...]
[read more]Travel and the Economy
Date: October 1st, 2008 | No Comments
I’m sure we’ve all seen our share of news about the current economic crisis, and some of us have worried about how it will affect our travel plans. But there are many good reasons why now is not necessarily a bad time to travel.
Christine at Almost Fearless lists six of them in The Economy [...]
BootsnAll’s Most Read in September
Date: September 30th, 2008 | No Comments
September was a busy month at BootsnAll. We launched our Travel Deals search. We hosted Rolf Potts’ Virtual Book Tour. We started a contest to win a $500 airfare voucher for writing a hostel review (which you can still enter through March 2009). We made a lot of progress planning our 10th Anniversary Party, including [...]
[read more]BootsnAll 10th Anniversary Party – December 6, 2008
Date: September 30th, 2008 | 14 comments
Yer Baby! I can’t believe it. 10 years that BootsnAll has been at it. Chris, Nick and I literally started BootsnAll in a little crappy house in Eugene, Oregon in late ‘98, early 1999 and we are still at it today.
We are pulling out all the freakin’ stops and props [...]
BnA Travel Deals Featured in This Just In
Date: September 29th, 2008 | No Comments
If you’ve been following BootBlog, you know that we launched our new Travel Deals search to the public a few weeks ago. Since then, we’ve made some improvements and added lots of new deals from across the net. The good people over at Budget Travel’s This Just In noticed all our hard work and just [...]
[read more]What is BootBlog?
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
Featured Post
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]
Member Spotlight
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 …
[Read more] Events
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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