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How I Travel: Tony Wheeler
It could easily be argued that Tony Wheeler is in the running for ‘Most Influential Traveler Alive.
The Definitive Report on Around the World Airfare – Fall 2014 Update
BootsnAll released the Around the World Airfare Report this week. Sean Keener, CEO of the BootsnAll Travel Network breaks down the what and why of this report. Why should you care?
How I Travel: Food, Glorious Food
Food is an integral part of the travel experience and over the course of 33 “How I Travel” interviews, food has come up almost every single time.
12 Career Skills That Travel Will Improve
Ever think of traveling as a way to build your resume? Mabel Lee shows you how career break trips can actually improve your skills on the job or prepare you for your next big step in the professional world.
Dreams Deferred
Life is tough sometimes, isn’t it? It’s not as simple as a rah-rah session of, “Anyone can live their dreams, go, go, go!” Sometimes, there are real reasons that a dream gets deferred. Good reasons. Then what?
Planning Your Kenyan Safari
Is one of your travel dreams to go on safari? Join Dani Blanchette as she offers all you need to know about planning a safari in Kenya.
Traveling by Motorbike
Ever wondered what it’s like to travel through India on a motorcycle? Join David Joshua Jennings in Ladakh, India, for a day in the life of a long-term traveler.
How I Travel: Priscilla Levac
Priscilla Levac is a professional snowboarder, clothing designer and raw food expert.
Swapping Your iPhone For a Backpack
Taking a career-gap for long-term travel can involve more lifestyle adjustment than you might think. Jo Fitzsimons shares her tips on how best to adapt in the early weeks.
Five Shoulder Seasons to Plan Your Trip Around
Shoulder seasons:those delightful wedges between high and low seasons that offer decent weather, smaller crowds and a healthy potential for deals on hotels and airfare. Shoulder seasons indicate a drop in tourism demand, but not in intrinsic value. Melanie Waldman offers up tips for booking shoulder season deals in five regions around the world.
Live the Life You Want to Live
Recovering tax attorney Amber Hoffman shares how she moved from talking tax to talking travel as she continues to search for her authentic self.
How I Travel: Andrew Shelley
At age 27, Andrew Shelley quit his engineering job with a plan to travel the world.
You Can Travel After the Kids Are Gone
Travel is for twenty-somethings and retirees. Kids don’t need the mind-expansion or exposure to things outside their little corner of the world. Keep them home; you can travel once they’re gone.
Questioning Oneself During Long-Term Travel
Join David Joshua Jennings choose these few days to chronicle because they are representative not only of the opportunities one finds oneself drifting into as a result of many months or years on the road, but also of the random love affairs, intoxication, loneliness, and relentless self-questioning that travel often inspires.
How I Travel: Coleman Collins
This “How I Travel” profiles Coleman Collins, a basketball player with a serious case of wanderlust, a nose for adventure, and an insatiable thirst for life. We should all be so lucky.
How One Woman Discovered her Independence On the Road
When Tina and her boyfriend left Germany for Australia, they thought they’d settle down and live there forever. But after their breakup, Tina decided it was time to discover herself through traveling the world.
How I Travel: Johnny Jet
This week’s “How I Travel” profile is the frequent-flying Johnny Jet – who, believe it or not, was once afraid to fly. Rest assured, he got over that fear a long time ago.
Long-Term Travel vs. Short Vacations
Find out why we at BootsnAll think every person should take a long-term trip at some point in their lives, and how long-term travel differs greatly from a shorter vacation.
The Role of Pain in Travel
Travel often has an element of suffering intrinsic to the process, but what about pain as a catalyst for travel? What about the value of suffering physically for the greater journey, both internally and externally? Should we, as indie travelers, be seeking to make the journey more comfortable, or intentionally making it more difficult? How much notice should we take of the pain and discomfort of a journey? What is its proper place, mentally and physically, in an adventure?
How to Use a Guidebook Without Letting it Ruin Your Trip
Some travelers are very against using guidebooks on the road. Steve Bramucci is one of them, but here he shares advice on how to get a lot out of the things in spite of the potential pitfalls.
Meditation in Nepal
Ever wondered what life in a meditation camp is actually like? Join David Joshua Jennings in Kathmandu, Nepal, to see what goes through the mind of a traveler when he’s not allowed to communicate for 11 days.
How I Travel: Ellen Hopkins
This week’s How I Travel profiles Ellen Hopkins, the New York Times best-selling author.
12 Reasons to Create a Travel Lifestyle
Travel can be a lifestyle, a genuine life routine. Vickie Lillo will show 12 reasons to travel and how you can start planning for that round-the-world adventure, even if you have to take it a few days at a time.
First Hand Experiences
Indie travel is all about having first hand experiences… so what happens when a seasoned traveler decides there’s one she doesn’t want to have?