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Maybe Organized Tours Aren’t So Bad After All?

As an self proclaimed indie traveler, I should have an open mind about all types of travel, yet I’ve always been kinda snotty about organized tours. Then I met Laura, who got me to re-think my stance.

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5 Trip Ideas To Inspire Your Planning

You’ve decided to do it! You’re taking off on a RTW adventure. But the world is huge! How do you begin to decide where to go? Vickie Lillo is here to offer 5 ideas to plan your big trip around.

Vickie Lillo

Do You Live an Extraordinary Life?

While reading a travel blog the other day, Adam Seper came across a quote that made him pause and reflect on his current life. He asked himself, “Am I living an extraordinary life?”

The Importance of Community

Eight years after beginning to plan her family’s first big leap into long term travel, Jenn Miller reflects on the importance of community and invites you to join her in building it, here at Boots-n-All

Letting Go of Fear

Are you anxious about traveling long-term? Read on to discover ways to calm your fears and finally take the next step to make your travel dreams a reality.

59 Questions to Ask Yourself

Are you constantly questioning your life decisions and wondering if there is more out there? If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, you’d be a perfect fit to join our community.

5 Reasons to Add Overland Travel to Your Trip

Overland travel is the epitome of independent travel – only you make the rules! Rachel Denning writes from the road about the advantages of this distinctive form of exploration.

Dream Big and Travel Far

Melissa Bannigan did what few single mothers have the courage to do: she quit her job so that she could educate her own child and travel the world. She’s created a business out of her passion and now works to inspire and empower other women to follow their dreams and live passion driven lives. And now, she’s inviting girls to join her on life changing adventures in Peru!

Jennifer Sutherland-Miller

Seven Unique Ideas For Summer Road Trips

Summer is road trip season! Pack your bags, grab your kids, tie Grandma on the roof, and buckle up as Jenn Miller offers some “twisted” road trip fun that even the most jaded traveler (even a fourteen year old one) is sure to enjoy.

Jennifer Sutherland-Miller

The Long-Term Traveler’s Guide to Love on the Road

Travel is not just about the places you see and the things you experience, but also the people you encounter along the way, and of these characters, none loom larger in memory as the lovers. For those new to long-term travel, and even for those who are no strangers to romance on the road, here is some advice to make the most of these peripatetic love affairs.

Travel Burnout as a Couple

Traveling with a partner is great, but what happens when one of you is burned out and the other isn’t? Writer Aimee Cebulski looks at the issue of travel fatigue mis-match and how to deal with it.

Aimee Cebulski

How to Make Friends in a Foreign City

Spain is a terrific country to visit, but what happens when carefree traveler days turn into antsy expat months, and you realize that “making friends” isn’t as oh-so-breezy as your teenage self believed? Manal A. Khan recounts her hunt for congenial companions in the adopted home of Madrid.