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Slow Travel in the Loire Valley
Slow Travel in the Loire Valley Contrary to popular belief, indie travel isn't one long vacation and slowing down from time to time can help re-energize your travels. With leisurely sights, award-winning food and wine and natural beauty, Jo Fitzsimons explains why the Loire Valley in France is the perfect place to slow down.
Give Memories, Not Things: Using Travel to Celebrate Milestones
Give Memories, Not Things: Using Travel to Celebrate Milestones After living out of a backpack or bike panniers for over five years, Jenn Miller discusses why she'll take making memories with the people she loves over tangible gifts every single time.
Educational Travel: How to Get Permission and Justify the Experience to Your Local School
Educational Travel: How to Get Permission and Justify the Experience to Your Local School Have you ever been tempted to just take your kids out of school and hit the road? Maybe you worried about getting permission or how to demonstrate what your child would learn while traveling. Jennifer Miller skipped most of third and eighth grade because her family was traveling. Those were the best two years of her "schooling," and she went on to become a teacher herself! She will show you how to craft a pitch to your school administrators and how to quantify the learning for your child, and perhaps even benefit every child in your kid's class!
Why and How to Embrace Long-term Slow Travel
Why and How to Embrace Long-term Slow Travel A vacation is good, a summer's travel is better, a RTW journey is a classic, a gap year can be epic, but why stop there? People all around the world are embracing a life of Longterm Slow Travel; Jenn Miller, in her fifth year of full-time travel, introduces you to a few of her friends, introduces you to the how and the why, and gives you ten good reasons you should just keep going.
Travel is Not a Contest (& Other Reasons to Embrace Slow Travel)
Travel is Not a Contest (& Other Reasons to Embrace Slow Travel) Planning to cram three countries and five cities into your two week vacation? Stop right there. Jennifer Miller shares five very good reasons to resist the urge to "see it all" in favor of developing a depth of experience that just might change your life.
Lessons from the Bartender
Lessons from the Bartender Three things I learned from suspending my trip across Africa and becoming a bartender.
Going Abroad in Your Own Country
Going Abroad in Your Own Country Kristen Kuchar sets out to discover if she can really have an Indie travel experience in her own country.
5 Steps to Simplify Family Travel
5 Steps to Simplify Family Travel Most travelers trade their backpacks for a diaper bag and assume that their free-wheeling travel days are over. Jenn Miller shows that travel with children does not have to mean Disney World and it doesn't have to mean misery either.
Amazing Indie Travel Experiences for 2012
Amazing Indie Travel Experiences for 2012 To celebrate the launch of the Indie Travel Manifesto, we present a list of incredible experiences to inspire you to be an indie traveler this year!
How to Be an Indie Traveler Anywhere You Go
How to Be an Indie Traveler Anywhere You Go You can be an indie traveler anywhere you go - even at home. In fact, indie travel isn't all about traveling. We know. It sounds weird. It looks weird. But hear us out.