RTW Travel Articles

 


The Lazy Traveler’s Guide to Trekking
The Lazy Traveler’s Guide to Trekking Do you enjoy hiking and the outdoors? Do you also love eating and drinking? Are you afraid that because of your eating and drinking habits that you can't accomplish your hiking goals? Adam Seper is here to tell you that you can have the best of both worlds with this guide.
12 Reasons Why Southeast Asia is the Best Place in the World for Backpackers
12 Reasons Why Southeast Asia is the Best Place in the World for Backpackers Forget Western Europe, Australia or Latin America. Stephanie Yoder explains why Southeast Asia is still the king of backpacker destinations.
10 Unspoiled Beaches For Your RTW Trip
10 Unspoiled Beaches For Your RTW Trip How far are you willing to go to find a truly unspoiled beach? Greg Banecker offers ten out-of-the-way beaches that may take a bit more time and effort to reach, but which are totally worth the trip.
How to Deal With the Post-Trip Blues
How to Deal With the Post-Trip Blues The first time I returned home after a big trip, I spent my first month back in the states weeping, reconsidering my life here and wondering how I fit into this whole job/commute/9-5 thing. Really, I think anyone who has ever taken a break from what we westerners consider 'Real Life' has had a painful reality check when they arrive home.
10 Important Life Lessons You Learn From Living Abroad
10 Important Life Lessons You Learn From Living Abroad Pulling up stakes and moving across borders can be exciting, embarrassing and unexpectedly educational. Whitney Cox writes about ten lessons learned from life in a new country.
How to Plan an Extended Trip in Southeast Asia
How to Plan an Extended Trip in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia has long been a major stopping point for backpackers around the world.  Exotic destinations, beautiful beaches and mountains, bustling cities, fantastic food, friendly people, a well trodden tourist trail, and super cheap prices all contribute to one of the top regions in the world for traveling. If you are thinking about planning a trip around the classic Southeast Asian loop of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, Adam Seper is here to give you all the information you'll need to know.
Make Meaningful Connections (and More Indie Travel Values We Love)
Make Meaningful Connections (and More Indie Travel Values We Love) At BootsnAll, our core values guide everything we do, including the articles we publish. We think these values not only fit the company brilliantly, they speak to many of the things we love about travel, too. Here are some of the best articles we've published in the last year that showcase one (or more) of these core values.
13 Ways to Beat the RTW Travel Planning Doldrums
13 Ways to Beat the RTW Travel Planning Doldrums Most people dive in head first when first making that decision to go on a big trip. You will devour guidebooks, travel websites, blogs, books, movies, and television shows, reading and watching everything you can get your hands on. The planning consumes and takes over your life. After a while, you feel confident in how your trip is shaping up, and there really isn't much else to do until those last few frantic weeks of getting everything finalized and taking off. So what do you do in the meantime? What can travelers to do to keep themselves occupied and excited about the trip in those months in between initial excitement and planning and those last couple weeks before departure?
BootsnAll’s Top 10 Best Articles of 2011
BootsnAll’s Top 10 Best Articles of 2011 We publish five (or more) articles per week, 52 weeks a year, on BootsnAll. That's a lot of great travel stories, tips, information, and inspiration to help you see the world on your terms. Here we highlight the year's very best content in a list of the top ten most read articles of 2011.
BootsnAll’s Top 10 Round The World Wednesday Articles From 2011
BootsnAll’s Top 10 Round The World Wednesday Articles From 2011 Over the past year, we have seen a renewed focus behind what helped start BootsnAll as a company - extended, RTW travel. Because of this new focus on RTW travel, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look back at our most popular articles having to do with extended, round the world travel. We looked at the numbers and chose the top 10 most popular articles and broke them down according to 5 of the most important aspects of traveling around the world.