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Back from SF Roadtrip
Date: May 26th, 2003 |
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Chris and I returned today from a 3 day roadtrip to the SF bay area. I am a bit tired and trying to catch up. We have a bunch of photos and lots of stories, if we can find the time. With Chris getting ready to leave for a year (he’s [...]
[read more]Photo Gallery of Portland Move
Date: May 18th, 2003 | 8 comments
Well, it’s Sunday night and Chris and I are tapping away at our keyboards. Which is not that different, except, that we are in Portland. Here is a collection of photos and captions from the past 72 hours…
Andy and I have a beer on the Eugene porch on Thursday night. It was [...]
Portland Bound
Date: May 15th, 2003 | 20 comments
By the time you’re reading this newsletter, the BootBoyz will be down to our last 48 hours in Eugene, Oregon. It’s been our home for the last 5 years and served us well. The time has come to move on though, and Portland is the new HQ for BootsnAll. Even though we’re happy to [...]
[read more]Last Rituals in Eugene
Date: May 14th, 2003 | 1 comment
As our days in Eugene wound down, Sean and I tried to appreciate the little things about living in Eugene and savour things that had become part of our routine. That included laundry, and coffee at Starbucks on 18th at 7am. We took a few snaps to remember the occasion:
Loading up the BootBus
Last week in Eugene and other stuff
Date: May 12th, 2003 | 5 comments
We just had a helluva weekend, our last in Eugene. Susan Brady from Travelers’ Tales visited Jen Leo and we got to spend a bit of time with her as well. Great time.
This morning’s weekly BnA meeting had us all a bit sad to be leaving Eugene, but also excited to move to [...]
Sand in My Bra
Date: May 10th, 2003 | 1 comment
After various guerilla marketing efforts to promote the Sand in My Bra book event at Mother Kali’s last night, Jen Leo was optimisitic about how many folks would show up.
As it turned out, every seat was filled and the event went very well. Sean, Jen and I, along with Susan Brady from Travelers’ Tales met [...]
Sand in Your What?
Date: May 9th, 2003 | No Comments
If you’re looking for something to do in Eugene tonight, join the BootBoyz down at Mother Kali’s Bookstore for a book reading/signing for Sand in My Bra, a women’s travel humour book edited by Jen Leo.
We’ll be heckling from the back and guarding the cookies.
Mother Kali’s Bookstore
13th & Hilyard
7pm
The State of World Travel
Date: May 1st, 2003 | 13 comments
The last couple of newsletters we’ve talked about how travel has been affected by world events. September 11th, the war in Iraq, the Bali bombing, Middle East unrest, bombs in Jakarta airport, the SARS scare. Man, that’s some scary stuff. All the things that might make you think it’s a good idea to stay at [...]
[read more]Know when to hold’em
Date: April 29th, 2003 | 5 comments
Tuesday mornings I am part of a networking group call BNI. Every week, at the end of the meeting we do a little bit of gambling and here’s how it works.
[read more]UO Street Faire – Spring
Date: April 26th, 2003 | No Comments
In what is fast becoming a tradition of sorts, the BootBus again made an apprearance at the UO street faire. This faire was a little different to the others though in that it rained nearly the entire time we were down there. Our booth was leaking in places and folks who stopped to say hi [...]
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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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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).
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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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