We focused on the topic of cultural experiences this week at #rtwchat and had a superb time. Let me know if you are injoying these and what topics you want to see in the future. Recap of the chat after the jump
This is part of BootsnAll’s 30 Days of Indie Travel project, a daily blogging challenge with a prompt for every day in November 2011. Check out the prompt at the bottom of this post to find out how you can participate! The last two years have been pretty interesting for me when it comes to travel. We arrived back in our hometown of St. Louis a little over two years ago, in October 2009, after a year long RTW trip. That trip changed so much about us – our priorities, our view of the world and the people in it, how we live our daily lives, and how we travel. Only I didn’t realize how much the trip had changed my travel style until we left the country again this past September. Since we returned from our epic journey with no jobs and little money, 2010 was very light when it came to travel. We simply didn’t have the time or money to devote to our one true love. We vowed to make changes in 2011, and nearly two years after returning from our RTW trip, we finally got out of the country again for a 16 day trip to Europe. I have to admit that I was a bit worried about several different aspects of this trip. After traveling [...]
Fall is coming, along with back to school, so it seems fitting that this week is literary week around BootsnAll. We’re kicking off the week with World Travel Through Literature: 8 Authors Who Take You Places — for when you’re short on time and money but still aching to travel the world — from Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist to Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk. In Tuesday’s How I Travel feature, we’ll learn why one famous travel author (hint: she’s published seven books, one of which was turned into a Spike Jonze movie) is so in love with life on the road. We’ll also take a peek at kid-approved literary locations and a guest post about your travel fetishes and obsessions. And if you missed last week’s How I Travel feature with author Anthony Bourdain, it’s a must read! What is your favorite literary destination? Sherlock Holmes in London? Hemingway in France and Spain? (photo by: arcsi)
This is part of BootsnAll’s 30 Days of Indie Travel project, a daily blogging challenge with a prompt for every day in November 2011. Check out the prompt at the bottom of this post to find out how you can participate! The last two years have been pretty interesting for me when it comes to travel. We arrived back in our hometown of St. Louis a little over two years ago, in October 2009, after a year long RTW trip. That trip changed so much about us – our priorities, our view of the world and the people in it, how we live our daily lives, and how we travel. Only I didn’t realize how much the trip had changed my travel style until we left the country again this past September. Since we returned from our epic journey with no jobs and little money, 2010 was very light when it came to travel. We simply didn’t have the time or money to devote to our one true love. We vowed to make changes in 2011, and nearly two years after returning from our RTW trip, we finally got out of the country again for a 16 day trip to Europe. I have to admit that I was a bit worried about several different aspects of this trip. After traveling [...] 
Fall is coming, along with back to school, so it seems fitting that this week is literary week around BootsnAll. We’re kicking off the week with World Travel Through Literature: 8 Authors Who Take You Places — for when you’re short on time and money but still aching to travel the world — from Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist to Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk. In Tuesday’s How I Travel feature, we’ll learn why one famous travel author (hint: she’s published seven books, one of which was turned into a Spike Jonze movie) is so in love with life on the road. We’ll also take a peek at kid-approved literary locations and a guest post about your travel fetishes and obsessions. And if you missed last week’s How I Travel feature with author Anthony Bourdain, it’s a must read! What is your favorite literary destination? Sherlock Holmes in London? Hemingway in France and Spain? (photo by: arcsi) 