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I’ll be at BlogWorld Expo in Vegas next month, will you?
Date: September 22nd, 2009 |
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If you’ve been paying attention to this blog, you may remember my recent posts about how I’m not the biggest Las Vegas fan in the world - and then how I found out I was speaking at a conference in (of course) Las Vegas. What I failed to mention then was details about the conference. [...]
[read more]From the “Duh” Department: More Travel Experience Makes You a Better Traveler
Date: August 27th, 2009 | No Comments
It feels like only yesterday I was packing up and returning back home after spending a month house-sitting for a friend in Milan… And yet here I am back again, subjecting myself to the torture that is Milan in August, so that I could sign a few papers and add to my Italian red tape [...]
[read more]Las Vegas: Focusing on the Positive
Date: July 24th, 2009 | 1 comment
A few weeks ago I made a mistake on this blog. I expressed gratitude to the Travel Gods that I, for the various work-related conferences I’ve attended, hadn’t been asked to go to Las Vegas.
See, I’ve been to Sin City before, but it’s really not my thing. I don’t like gambling, I can’t handle the [...]
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]Turning Online Friends into Real-Life Friends
Date: May 25th, 2009 | 3 comments
Not that long ago, my mother still looked at me with a deer-in-headlights look when I said the word “blog.” She knew I was working for a web company, and she knew what the internet and email were, but blogs were just something she’d heard someone mention on NPR - she didn’t actually know what [...]
[read more]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]Featured Adventure: Thailand + 5% off!
Date: March 4th, 2009 | No Comments
Looking for some adventure? Our featured adventure trip this week is East Coast Island Hopping, a nine day very flexible trip among the islands of Thailand’s east coast - including Koh Pha-ngan and Koh Samui.
As an added bonus, in recognition that times are tight, mention this post when you call or email us and we’ll [...]
Featured Adventure: Morocco
Date: January 27th, 2009 | No Comments
Looking for some adventure? Fancy channeling your inner Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca? Want to rub shoulders with the fortune tellers and snake charmers in the main market of Marrakesh?
If any of this sounds appealing, why not check out the Magical Morocco adventure trip. 9 days covering a broad spectrum of Moroccan cities and highlights.
Call us [...]
BootsnAll’s Top 10 Destinations in 2009
Date: January 6th, 2009 | No Comments
We asked the question of what are the top destinations for independent travelers to visit and the BootsnAll community responded. The result is the Top 10 Destinations for Independent Travelers in 2009.
This is not a list of the most hardcore places on earth to travel to, places that you can brag to your mates [...]
Get Freaky in North Queensland
Date: November 14th, 2008 | No Comments
A friend sent me a recent news item (I’m not going to think too deeply about why) that cracked me up and it has some slight travel relevance in that it takes place in beautiful far north Queensland. In an effort to combat the global credit crunch, a resort near the Daintree National Park is [...]
[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
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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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