A big part of long-term travel is traveling overland. What is your preferred method of overland travel? Do you have any awesome/hilarious/horrifying stories to tell us?
Prompt #4: What is your favorite method of overland travel and why?
Week 1 theme: Getting to know you
How: Respond to the prompt – through a blog post, picture, video, drawing, tweet, comment at the bottom of this article – however you want to express yourself. Then tweet and link your response @BootsnAll with the hashtag #indie30
Week 1 theme: Getting to know you
Details: See below
There is one guiding question/prompt each day, followed by a series of questions, ideas, and comments meant to help you dig deeper. These aren’t meant to be answered directly, just to help (feel free to address any, all, or none of the guiding questions below).
What is your favorite method of overland travel and why?
- Maybe you have a hilarious/unbelievable/horrifying overland story you’d like to share – this is the place to do it!
- Do you love trains?
- Buses?
- Boats?
- What method of overland travel do you enjoy most?
- What is the longest overland journey you’ve ever taken? Where? How was it?
Tools and inspiration: Each day we’ll add a few links having to do with that day’s topic. If you’re experiencing a creativity block, maybe these can give you a few ideas:
- Overland Travel on Your Long-Term Trip
- 12 Tips for Surviving Public Transport in a Developing Country
- Overnight Bus Trips from an Expert
- 5 Great Reasons You Should Travel Overland
Week 1: Getting to Know You
Each week will have a different theme, and since the entire idea behind this is to make meaningful connections with each other, every prompt this week will have to do with getting to know each other a little better by finding out more about we all travel.
How to participate
We’re inviting anyone from around the world who has a passion for long-term travel to participate in our month-long art project.
You can respond to each day’s prompt however you see fit – through a blog post, a photograph, a video, a painting, a tweet, a Facebook or G+ comment, commenting below – it’s completely up to you!
We’ll share our favorites each day on Twitter, Facebook, and Google +. At the end of each week we’ll round up our favorite responses and write a blog post linking to each.
It’s never too late to start – find out the nitty gritty details here!
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5 Reasons to Add Overland Travel to Your Trip
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