Happy New Year! We hope your 2011 was full of meaningful connections, working and playing with passion, embracing change and learning about yourself and the world. And we hope the coming year bring you even more amazing indie travel experiences.
This week, we’re kicking off the new year with a week dedicated to planning. We’ll suggest some great travel resolutions to inspire you to get out and go, and help you cope when you’re in between planning trips.
We’re also kicking off a new weekly event, called the Indie Travel Challenge, that will last for all of 2012! If you enjoyed participating in or reading the responses to our 30 Days of Indie Travel project, you’ll love what we have in store for you this year.
Rather than doing a prompt every day, we’ll post a prompt, question, or challenge (are you up for it?) every week for all of 2012! Similarly to the 30 Days of Indie Travel, we’ll ask you to respond to the prompt on your own blog, and link back to BootsnAll so we can find and highlight the best submissions.
For the very first week, we’re talking resolutions!
Many of us use the New Year as a time to make resolutions that we think will improve our lives. We plan to eat better, spend less, call our parents regularly, travel more. But rarely do we achieve these goals, because they’re too vague. We don’t have a plan on how to achieve them and so we forget about them by February.
This year, let’s not just resolve to “travel more” let’s resolve to have amazing indie travel experiences. Resolve to see the sunrise over Angkor Wat. Resolve to walk on a glacier in Patagonia. Resolve to eat your weight in cheese in Provence. Resolve to dance the tango in Buenos Aires. Resolve to seek out experiences that immerse you into a new culture, challenge your beliefs, push your comfort zone, delight your senses, and make memories that will last a lifetime.
So we’re issuing a challenge: share with us your indie travel list – part resolutions, part bucket list, the list should help you focus your travel plans so you can take concrete steps to achieve your travel goals this year (and beyond). Put together your list of experiences you want to have this year and link it back to our list of travel resolutions to keep (you can also add a link here, or share it on twitter with the hashtag #indie2012 so we can share it with the community). At the end of the month, we’ll use your ideas in a mega-list of amazing experiences to inspire travelers from around the world!
Comments on This Week on BootsnAll: Planning for 2012
Stepping out of my comfort zone in 2012 « Brave New World Traveler
03 January 2012
[...] post was inspired by BootsnAll’s 18 Travel Resolutions to Keep This Year and their 2012 Indie Travel Challenge. Share this:TwitterFacebookMoreStumbleUponLike this:LikeBe the first to like this [...]
Join BootsnAll’s Indie Travel Challenge 2012 | BootsnAll Travel Articles
03 January 2012
[...] weekly challenges and prompts will be posted on the BootsnAll blog (here’s the first week’s prompt). You can check there for it every Monday morning, or sign up for the Daily Dose newsletter (using [...]
Esha
03 January 2012
My one and only travel resolution for 2012 http://blogs.gonomad.com/milestogo/2012/01/travel-resolution-for-2012.html #indie2012
Join BootsnAll’s Indie Travel Challenge 2012 | Go Time Travel Blog
03 January 2012
[...] be posted on the BootsnAll blog (here’s the first week’s prompt). You can check there for it [...]
BootsnAll’s Indie Travel Challenge 2012 – Week 1
04 January 2012
[...] here, at the birth of a new year, BootsnAll wants us to talk about our travel resolutions, about Planning for 2012. And no, “Travel More” is not acceptable. BootsnAll made their own list, which you can [...]
12 for 2012 « Erin Hutton, Writer
04 January 2012
[...] is back with a new challenge for travel writers: Indie 2012. A full year of writing prompts, challenges, and such sent to bloggers each week. I had so much fun [...]
2012: The Year of Endless Possibilities. « The World Wanderer
04 January 2012
[...] the first week of January, the prompt is all about resolutions. Not those about traveling more or signing up for the gym, but instead to, “Resolve to seek [...]
Julie Dawn Fox
05 January 2012
Here are my travel plans within Portugal for 2012, inspired by the Indie Travel Challenge. http://wp.me/pWYDB-bN
Heather Tamara Munoz
05 January 2012
In honor or #indie2012 we’ve posted these Resolution Solutions … http://turtlestravel.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/resolution-solutions-2012/
Martha
05 January 2012
Trips to trivets in twenty-twelve (do over)
The 2012 ‘To Do’ List - Viaggiatory
05 January 2012
[...] designed to push bloggers to reconsider their traveling experiences, expectations, and futures.Week one’s assignment? Resolutions. Travel resolutions, on particular. But since I dislike the word [...]
Adelaide
06 January 2012
I am a new travel blogger so my first post was about my 2012 resolutions.
http://travellingadelaide.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/2012-resolutions/
Indie Travel Challenge 2012: Week 1 – My 2012 Travel List « Katie Going Global
06 January 2012
[...] prompt for Week 1 of the Challenge [...]
Our 2012 Travel Goals - Australia - Asia
06 January 2012
[...] first weeks prompts is all about New Years resolutions. So now that you know our travel goals, lets get down to our travel resolutions. Another [...]
Jane Stanfield
07 January 2012
My first 2012 Travel Resolution is to spend more time in local markets when I travel to learn, to experience, to eat! Travel in Safety. Jane Stanfield
2012: Banishing the lazy traveller | food travel bliss
07 January 2012
[...] I hope this will increase my motivation to stick to them. This post came about as part of the Boots ‘n’ All Indie 2012 Indie Travel Challenge and the 18 Travel resolutions to keep this year topic for week one of the [...]
Toni DeBella
07 January 2012
Here is my contribution to the first challenge. http://orvietoorbust.com/2012/01/07/the-resolution-revolution/
Shannon
08 January 2012
My travels goals for 2012 http://shockey1.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/taking-the-next-step-2012/
Red
09 January 2012
It’s a bit delayed, but here’s my piece for WK01. http://www.thefuriouspanda.com/2012/01/09/travel-resolutions-2012/
Suzi
11 January 2012
With a big year of travel ahead for two and a half travellers, it was great to take a few moments to think about what I want out of the experience. Here’s my contribution: http://twoandahalftravellers.blogspot.com/2012/01/travel-resolutions-for-2012.html
arizona lynn
11 January 2012
Thought about going to Antarctica for the big 6-0 this year… but may have to adjust that to going to the Galapagos. What to do? What to do?
Adrian Vultur
26 January 2012
This is a great blog, and gives some really useful tips and information for travellers. I have been writing travel articles for the past four years, and I live in the south of Spain. If you would like me to contribute to your site, please can you give me an e mail address where I can contact you.