We know the 30 Days of Indie Travel Art Project is over, but we had so much fun getting to know you all and making connections with like-minded travelers, that we wanted to highlight our month of fun one last time.
We had so many great submissions throughout the month of April, we decided to showcase our favorite post and tweet from each day.
So without further ado, here is the Best of the #Indie30.
Day 1. A Changing World View
Best Post: @CannoliColie – How Travel Has Ruined Me. And in all the best ways.
Best Tweet: @ConfusedJulia
.@BootsnAll Travel made me treasure people, not possessions. People and experiences make us happy, not money. So few realise it. #indie30
— Julia (@ConfusedJulia) April 1, 2014
Day 2. You’re Travel Origin
Best Post: @GloriousCurious – Child Detectives Sent Me Overseas, where she admits, “I decided I would be a traveler because of five fictional children and their jet-setting adventures.”
Best Tweet: @ChewyTravels
Like many Americans with immigrant parents, my travel started with a quest to learn my mother tongue + visit China! @BootsnAll #indie30
— chewy travels (@ChewyTravels) April 2, 2014
Day 3: You’re Travel Style
Best Post: @lindseyhodder – On Travel Styles. Travel is unique and she made her own travel style infographic manifesto.
Best Tweet: @DaraMDenney
Hey, @BootsnAll! This is my travel style; adventure, mountains, and great friends! #indie30 pic.twitter.com/vTVoTYXuoB
— Dara Denney (@DaraMDenney) April 4, 2014
Day 4: Overland Travel
Best Post: @spankyandsarah – Cribs: Campervan Edition. We love this MTV Cribs style spoof of the campervan they travel in.
Best Tweet: @BudgetTrvlTalk
@BootsnAll #Indie30 Love Trains- Friend awoke on an Indian Train with a warm wet face-Cow’s head through the bars licking his face #Surprise
— Budgettraveltalk (@BudgetTrvlTalk) April 5, 2014
Day 5: Your Other (Non-travel) Passion
Best Post: @filipachatillon – Aula Ragga/Dancehall. She showed us her other passion with this youtube video of her with her actual dance troop.
Best Tweet: @loismiddleton
Day 5 – Passion? Adventure – here’s my first skydive. #indie30 pic.twitter.com/K3LAKVsUDs
— Lois Middleton (@loismiddleton) April 6, 2014
Day 6: Saving Money
Best Post: @cselkie – How To Pay For It?. This is a great post on how to save money to travel, even when living below the poverty level. (No excuses!)
Best Tweet: @AnanyaTales
@IndiaTrvlrsClub #indie30 I save by spending less on stuff like clothes, jewelry and blow it up on travelling. pic.twitter.com/3G57HtPuQC
— Ananya (@AnanyaTales) April 7, 2014
— Ananya (@AnanyaTales) April 7, 2014
Day 7: You’re Packing Style
Best Post: @Nellou – Backpack Travel. Nellou shows us her style by unpacking her actual backpack in this cute Youtube video.
Best Tweet: @DelishDirection
.@BootsnAll I’m a moderate packer, that’s me in Trento on our 40-day Italy/Austria trip #indie30 | pic.twitter.com/8J4aDyqHA7
— Prachi Joshi (@DelishDirection) April 7, 2014
Day 8: Worst Travel Experience
Best Post: @BurkhartAndrea – Origins-A Lesson Injustice. This is a powerfully moving story about an incident that unfolded involving them, a thief, the police, and an unfortunate innocent boy.
Best Tweet: @MarjiStevens
@BootsnAll #indie30 A mastrubating, swearing in her sleep, Wicca roommate in a hostel. Hands down worst experience!
— dogsloveshushi (@MarjiStevens) April 9, 2014
Day 9: Best Travel Experience
Best Post: @4WornPassports – No Regrets! Bungee Jumping in New Zealand. That’s right. Do what you fear and fear can’t win!
Best Tweet: @slomadstravel
@BootsnAll #indie30 VERY 1st time overseas, suitcase broke (wheels AND handle!) and I had to carry it through rush-hour Tokyo station D:
— Slomads Travel (@slomadstravel) April 10, 2014
Day 10: Strangest Food You’ve Eaten
Best Post: @CannoliColie – Iceland:Expect the Unexpected. Icelandic food sounds like a strange, interesting brew we now want to try!
Best Tweet: @BoboandChichi
@bootsnall The strangest food we’ve ever eaten – Bundegi – Silk Worm Larva https://t.co/bc5N1XCXTl #indie30 pic.twitter.com/CynBsRnYTw
— Scott and Megan (@BoboandChichi) April 10, 2014
Day 11: Misbehaving
Best Post: @goingnomadic – Stupidest Things I’ve Done While Traveling. Yes, sneaking into the back of a zoo to pet a lion is not smart, but makes a great video story.
Best Tweet: @travelnavywife
#indie30 OMG My husband’s LPO just texted him about this https://t.co/7WsuTTPcEa Could/should have used this instead: pic.twitter.com/BJmH7b1aMT
— Traveling Navy Wife (@travelnavywife) April 12, 2014
Day 12: Random Acts of Kindness
Best Post: @TaraLowryPhoto – Have you ever been helped by a total stranger when traveling? And sometimes that stranger is a dog whose life you saved.
Best Tweet: @womenontheroad
Helped by a total stranger? Yess! Mozambican drove me to Zim border for free after I’d been robbed. Day 12 #Indie30 @BootsnAll challenge
— Leyla Giray Alyanak (@womenontheroad) April 13, 2014
Day 13: Foreign Language
Best Post: @withoutalicense – Languages (And how Much I Suck At Them). Being bilingual in two opposing languages, learning something like Spanish should be easy. But not to her, and this video is hilarious!
Best Tweet: @surbhiarora330
The only reason I want to learn spanish is so I can confess my eternal love for Messi, in his own language! @BootsnAll #indie30
— Surbhi Arora (@surbhiarora330) April 13, 2014
Day 14: Travel Poetry
Best Post: @chris2x – Flanders Field Revisted – My Thoughts on Remembrance Day in Flanders. Chris writes a poem about a place that has a famous poem written about it. But his version does Flanders just as much justice.
Best Tweet: @furnessmk
@BootsnAll suitcase in hand, camera over shoulder; Light in her eyes; She looks ahead, always to distant shores. #travel #poetry #indie30
— Mary Furness (@furnessmk) April 15, 2014
Day 15: Travel in Asia
Best Post: @travelnavywife – If you Could Pick Any Country in Asia to Visit, Which Would it be and Why? We loved the countries she picked, because they are more off the regular path.
Best Tweet: @BudgetTrvlTalk
@BootsnAll asked my favourite Asian Country for #Indie30. Laos wins first place for the People + laid back lifestyle pic.twitter.com/9gequ8Djt5
— Budgettraveltalk (@BudgetTrvlTalk) April 17, 2014
Day 16: Europe Travel
Best Post: @yqtravelling – What city in Europe would you like to visit the most? We never said that your dream destination had to be real….
Best Tweet: @ManRuiTian
@BootsnAll Paris is always my favorite. Old books, rainy days, hot coffee, and crowded sidewalks. Literary Paradise. #indie30
— Kristen Mankosa (@ManRuiTian) April 16, 2014
Day 17: USA Travel
Best Post: @withoutalicense – ‘Murica! And she explains it perfectly with, “What I love most about America is that it you can go to all 50 states and have 50 different experiences”.
Best Tweet: @furnessmk
@BootsnAll Find the STATE parks! Missouri has lovely ones reflecting our natural & cultural history! WVA and VA too!! #indie30 #travel
— Mary Furness (@furnessmk) April 18, 2014
Day 18: World Wonders
Best Post: @AradInfo – What one thing, when you see photos of it, make you just want to just pack your bags and go? All these photos do!
Best tweet: @surbhiarora330
I see a treehouse, and I go bonkers. #indie30 pic.twitter.com/fFOIJAeDI1
— Surbhi Arora (@surbhiarora330) April 18, 2014
Day 19: South America
Best Post: @philatravelgirl – The Magic of the Moai of Easter Island. These are some great photos of such majestic statues.
Best Tweet: @suzie_somewhere
@BootsnAll #Indie30 #RTWChat South America’s unique nature and landscapes like Salar de Uyuni in #Bolivia https://t.co/sdftyOqwIo
— Suzie Prince (@suzie_somewhere) April 20, 2014
Day 20: Africa Travel
Best Post: @travelnavywife – Africa: Dream To Be More. This is an amazing post about the Lost Boys and the charity that made her fall in love with Africa.
Best Tweet: @AdlibTraveller
.@BootsnAll for me, Ethiopia. I’m intrigued to learn about the beginnings of humanity. Unmissable. #Africa #Indie30
— Colleen Williams (@AdlibTraveller) April 20, 2014
Day 21: Travel Plans for 2014
Best Post: @loismiddleton – Walking the Camino with Janice. This is a beautiful and sad story, and we will be thinking of you during your pilgrimage this fall.
Best Tweet: @LooseBall00n
@BootsnAll I have an annual #Bangkok addiction so il be back there soon, #Bhutan #japan #southamerica are on my to do list! 😀 #indie30
— LooseBalloon (@LooseBall00n) April 22, 2014
Day 22: Your Hometown – A 24 Hour Travel Guide
Best Post: @FreshAirTravel – America’s Caribbean Island. We still can’t believe this is your first post. We can’t wait to read more. And visit Key West!
Best Tweet: @serenity007
Day 22 #indie30 My Hometown in 24 Hours – #Sacramento, anyone? https://t.co/AItH6uxXdu @BootsnAll pic.twitter.com/oQeSgyAaG9
— Serenity Thompson (@serenity007) April 23, 2014
Day 23: Best Road Trip
Best Post: @truebluegin – Road Trip – The Ultimate Adventure With 8 Kids Under Age 16. “Four adults, eight juveniles and two little white dogs of indeterminate poodle lineage”. Awesome opening!
Best Tweet: @kaushiva
@BootsnAll #Indie30 Best #roadtrip Oct 13′ Delhi-Bundi-Udaipur-Kumbalgarh-Deogarh-Delhi The Rajasthan Highways offer a smooth drive!
— ADITI KAUSHIVA (@kaushiva) April 24, 2014
Day 24: Worst Accommodation
Best Post: @BurkhartAndrea – Buddha Calling. Any hotel nicknamed “The Floral Breeze” HAS to have an interesting story behind it.
Best Tweet: @AmandaCLong
@BootsnAll a hostel I stayed at in Budapest smelled like kitty litter…everywhere. #indie30
— Amanda Long (@AmandaCLong) April 26, 2014
Day 25: Travel Photos
Best Post: @Filipachatillon – Travel Photos. These are some unbelievably beautiful photos from her trips around the world!
Best Tweet: @yobecbec
Mmm, mud baths are trending in Vietnam. @BootsnAll #indie30 pic.twitter.com/Ckha3GJggL
— Rebecca Podesta (@yobecbec) April 25, 2014
Day 26: The Perfect Trip
Best Post: @womenontheroad – My Perfect Trip. All these trips sound perfect!
Best Tweet: @BoboandChichi
@BootsnAll a motorbike, clear skies (with awesome clouds of course), my camera, gf & sense of adventure is what makes a good trip #indie30
— Scott and Megan (@BoboandChichi) April 27, 2014
Day 27: Holidays Abroad
Best Post: @loismiddleton – Are Birthday’s Considered Holidays? I Say Yes! And so do we. Your son is very lucky!
Best Tweet: @BoboandChichi
Korean Valentine’s Day. 2 part process. Pt 1 women makes chocolates. Megan’s attempt https://t.co/XnznDplxZK #indie30 pic.twitter.com/YQZMigdsv9
— Scott and Megan (@BoboandChichi) April 27, 2014
Day 28: Music and Travel
Best Post: @spankyandsarah – Melting into the Music: How Tunes Compliment Travel. Great explanation of how music and travel blend together.
Best Tweet: @Filipachatillon
Song for promp#28 #indie30.For obvious reasons it. And because I used to listen to them a lot, in SA https://t.co/cyf99rFYPt
— Filipa Chatillon (@Filipachatillon) April 28, 2014
Day 29: Design Your Own Hostel
Best Post: @travelnavywife – Design the Perfect Hostel. We hope to be invited to the opening of this hostel!
Best Tweet: @womenontheroad
My perfect hostel? Rural near city, trees, hot tub, quiet areas, hi-speed wifi, rent-a-cat for cuddles! @BootsnAll #indie30 #hostels
— Leyla Giray Alyanak (@womenontheroad) April 29, 2014
Day 30: Best Travel Advice
Best Post: @goingnomadic – Best Advice I Ever Got. We love this advice. No regrets!
Best Tweet: @ManRuiTian
Don’t wait for the right time, the right amount of money, the right person, the right reason-it’ll never be just right. Just go. #indie30
— Kristen Mankosa (@ManRuiTian) April 30, 2014
#Indie30 may be over, but you can always join in on the fun and use any of the 30 prompts as ideas for articles on your blog or website. Check out all prompts and each ‘best of’ roundup from the project:
Photo credits: Christopher Michel