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! One of the most difficult part of RTW travel is being away from family and friends. When the holidays come around, it makes it even tougher. Spending Christmas and New Year’s Eve away from loved ones, even though we were on the trip of a lifetime, was extremely hard. Even through all our travels, we’ve only spent one Christmas and New Year’s away from our family and friends. And luckily for us, we had a friend of a friend that one time we were away. We spent a month in Buenos Aires in December and January and had a little apartment. It was like home for us after living out of our backpacks for months. We were missing one thing from our home, though: friends and family. Enter Maru. A resident of Buenos Aires, Maru studied in my hometown of St. Louis when we were in high school. She stayed with a good friend of ours during her time in our city, and they kept in touch in the 15 years since. Fortunately for us, we were introduced to [...]
This week on BootsnAll As Thanksgiving is sneaking up on us, it’s already time to start planning New Year’s travel. If you’re still deciding where to go, check out our New Year’s travel deals and tips. Tuesday’s How I Travel is with Lonely Planet co-founder and iconic wanderer – Tony Wheeler! Later in the week, we’ll check out some of the best places to celebrate New Year’s, why you should go running while traveling, and travel innovations that you should care about. Some of the BootsnAll crew is at the PhoCusWright Travel conference this week, so stay tuned for coverage on what we think are the most exciting innovations coming to travel. Have you started planning for New Year’s yet? (photo by: tmab2003)
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! One of the most difficult part of RTW travel is being away from family and friends. When the holidays come around, it makes it even tougher. Spending Christmas and New Year’s Eve away from loved ones, even though we were on the trip of a lifetime, was extremely hard. Even through all our travels, we’ve only spent one Christmas and New Year’s away from our family and friends. And luckily for us, we had a friend of a friend that one time we were away. We spent a month in Buenos Aires in December and January and had a little apartment. It was like home for us after living out of our backpacks for months. We were missing one thing from our home, though: friends and family. Enter Maru. A resident of Buenos Aires, Maru studied in my hometown of St. Louis when we were in high school. She stayed with a good friend of ours during her time in our city, and they kept in touch in the 15 years since. Fortunately for us, we were introduced to [...] 
This week on BootsnAll As Thanksgiving is sneaking up on us, it’s already time to start planning New Year’s travel. If you’re still deciding where to go, check out our New Year’s travel deals and tips. Tuesday’s How I Travel is with Lonely Planet co-founder and iconic wanderer – Tony Wheeler! Later in the week, we’ll check out some of the best places to celebrate New Year’s, why you should go running while traveling, and travel innovations that you should care about. Some of the BootsnAll crew is at the PhoCusWright Travel conference this week, so stay tuned for coverage on what we think are the most exciting innovations coming to travel. Have you started planning for New Year’s yet? (photo by: tmab2003)