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75 Ways to Save Money For Your Travels
Is it true that only people with high-paying careers can afford to save large sums of money for travel? Pamela claims that anyone can save large sums of money for travel, it just takes some creativity and planning. Here are 75 tips to help.
The Eat, Pray, Love Effect: Is Travel Really a Path to Self-Discovery?
Bestsellers like Eat, Pray, Love suggest that going on a long trip can lead to personal and spiritual discovery. Is this true or is it simply overblown hype?
Define Dangerous in 2018:
How do you decide whether a country is safe enough to travel to? Jenn Miller discusses how to weigh the pros and cons, consider the realities and check on the details before you travel, as well as how to minimize risks on the ground.
“I’m Taking Off to See the World!” How to Tell Your Parents
Breaking the news that you’re going traveling can cause a parental freak out of epic proportions. By preparing answers to the most common questions you can downgrade your parents’ concern from panic to everyday worry. Jo Fitzsimons shows you how.
How Travel Saved My Life
There is a whole world out there waiting for you to discover. There is a whole you out there waiting to be discovered. Travel to discover. Travel to recover. Travel to live. Travel for no one else but you.
7 Reasons Why Everyone Should Travel Solo At Least Once
It takes a great deal of courage to set off on one’s own into unknown territory, but there is growth and empowerment in doing so. Renee Lo Iacono shares a few things traveling solo can teach you about yourself and the world.
Gap Years for Every Student: How to Make the Most of the Opportunity
Jenn Miller discusses why students (and their parents) should consider a gap year between high school and college, and not just how to make it happen, but how to make the most of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Why I Travel: To Find Happiness? Nope.
We’re looking to start a conversation about “Why We Travel?” When did you first travel? What were your thoughts or perceptions about how travel would be before you began? What were your thoughts along the journey? How were you transformed by that first trip? What did it feel like while you were traveling? What did you learn? Where have you been since?
8 Reasons to Take a Gap Year
The reasons for taking a gap year – a travel break from school or work – can be many. Adam Seper offers eight of countless more reasons to take a break from normal life to pursue your travel dreams.
A Mother Finds Courage On a Zip-Line in Boise
A mother finds her courage on a Zipline in Boise with her son.
How Long-Term Travel Can Change You And Your Life (for the better)
BootsnAll Editor Jean Ciolli shares why getting hooked on short-term travel is only the first step and why even though in many ways long-term travel is harder, it’s worth the extra effort because of how it makes the traveler grow and change in unexpected ways.
Why Two Week Trips are Important
In the world of long-term travel, it can seem like the two week trip doesn’t matter. Lifestyle travelers scoff at anything less than “real” travel. Five and a half years in, Jenn Miller reminds us that big things often grow out of small beginnings and points out why, if two weeks is all you have, short trips matter all the more.
Welcome New Editor and Direction of Bootsnall
We’re re-energizing the Bootsnall community and we have big plans! Why? Well… we want to change the world.
8 Things that Separate Great Hostels from Average Hostels
Hostels come in all shapes and sizes with varying amenities. After a year of round-the-world travel, Adam Seper is comfortable declaring which 8 amenities separate the great hostels from the so-so hostels.
10 Awesome Snorkeling Spots Around the World
If you were going to take a round the world snorkel tour, these are the Top Ten Snorkel Spots.
Overplanning vs. Spontaneity
How much should I plan? How much should I leave open? Planning a long term, RTW trip can cause headaches for first-timers. Luckily Adam Seper is here to help you ask yourself the right questions to make planning that first RTW trip much easier.
Top 10 Tips to Stay In Shape While Traveling
It can be much harder to stick to a routine when you’re on the road. Your location keeps changing and chances are you’re jumping from one time zone to another, so you’ll need to get a bit creative.
Why I Hate Short Term Missions Trips
Jenn Miller dives into the turbulent and emotionally charged waters of voluntourism and faith-based missions trips, explaining why, often, these programs do more harm than good.
Rethinking Traditional Travel: 7 Tips to Break the Mold
If you’ve ever felt like your trips are starting to feel a bit too alike, you might be interested in Lauren Quinn’s advice for changing things up, inspired by an unexpected source.
Connect With Locals and Enhance Your Experience Abroad
Enhance your experience abroad by connecting with locals. Isabel Eva Bohrer gives tips on how best to do it.
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.
Honoring the Lessons Travel Teaches
The things we learn about who we are, who we were, who we are becoming, and how that fits with who we thought we were when we started our journey are some of the most profound realizations a traveler comes to on the road. The difficult part, of course, is what happens when we come home
How and Why to Learn a Foreign Language
There is no doubt that we travelers have a deeper experience of the place we are traveling when we are fluent in the local language. Without this fluency, much of what we experience in a foreign land is mysterious or misinterpreted. Thus, unless we learn the local language, we will continue comprehending only a small margin of what we could be, and our interpretations are bound to be distorted.
10 Things I’ve Learned From Life And Travel
Travel is an infamous teacher and Life a merciless school mistress. Jennifer MIller shares ten lessons gleaned from a gypsy life and asks, “What’s the road teaching you?”