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BootsnAll’s Most Read in September
Date: September 30th, 2008 |
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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]Should I travel solo?
Date: September 26th, 2008 | 1 comment
Two articles caught my eye in the last few days on the pros and cons of traveling solo. Kristy of Nerdy Nomad is a frequent solo traveler, but rediscovered the joys of traveling with others in Good Things About Travelling with a Friend. Amanda, over at Vagabondish, makes the case for Why Everybody Should Travel [...]
[read more]Our Favorite Travel Links, 9/24/08
Date: September 24th, 2008 | No Comments
Flea markets are always a fun way to experience local culture, especially at one of these 8 Great Flea Market Destinations.
Indonesia Logue counts down Five Great Reasons to Visit Indonesia.
Cast your vote in Travel + Leisure’s poll of America’s Favorite Cities 2008. Round One saw the surprising upset of Honululu over Los Angeles (and [...]
Our Favorite Travel Links, 9/22/08
Date: September 22nd, 2008 | No Comments
Here’s what caught our eye in the travel world today:
You don’t have to go far for a great vacation destination this winter–check out Mexico Logue’s take on the top 10 reasons to visit Mexico during the winter.
Everything Everywhere gives us seven great reasons to visit Australia: The Seven Wonders of Australia
Want a trip to Fiji? [...]
Rolf Potts Virtual Book Tour - Win Free Book
Date: September 11th, 2008 | 45 comments
Thanks to everyone who submitted a question! Read the final interview: Rolf Potts Answers Your Travel Questions
Independent travel guru Rolf Potts just released his newest book, Marco Polo Didn’t Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer.
Rolf has been a long-time friend of BootsnAll, and his first book, Vagabonding: [...]
15% Discount for First-Time Advertisers on BootsnAll
Date: September 10th, 2008 | No Comments
If you’re interested in advertising on BootsnAll, but have been waiting for the right opportunity, here it is! For a limited time, we’re offering a 15% discount for all first-time advertisers through our self-serve badge advertisement option. Each “badge” is a 125×125 pixel square and appears in the right-hand column of the site. You can [...]
[read more]What’s New at BootsnAll
Date: September 4th, 2008 | 1 comment
We’re always coming up with so many new ways to serve independent travelers that we can hardly keep track of them ourselves. For all of you, the best way to stay on top of what’s new is to subscribe to our newsletter. The second best way is to check BootBlog, as we’ll be making What’s [...]
[read more]Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro this New Year’s Eve
Date: August 14th, 2008 | No Comments
We’ve offered a huge variety of adventure trips and tours for a while now, including our BootsnAll Exclusive Trips to places like Thailand, Morocco, and Nepal.
We just put together a new trip to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro this New Year’s with BootsnAll’s very own Africa expert and professional regional mountain guide, Peter Baxter. This is [...]
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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
Featured Post
One of the things that tends to happen when I talk to people about my job at BootsnAll is the, "Oh, you're so lucky!" moment. I do consider myself extremely fortunate to be able to write about travel every day - to do something I love so much that work doesn't feel …
[Read more] Member Spotlight
Those of you who read the BootBlog may remember my recent musings on how online friends become real-life friends. What some of you who read that article may not know is that I heard from several BootsnAll members after it was published who said, "Yeah, that's interesting and all, but we've been doing that for years now." And it's … [Read more]
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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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