How I Travel

What travel actually looks like for people who do a lot of it - the packing, the rituals, the things they get wrong.

43 interviews by Steve Bramucci, who asked chefs, authors, surfers and one professional Santa Claus the same question: how do you travel?

How I Travel: Anthony Bourdain

Any traveler who lives to eat or foodie who loves to travel knows Anthony Bourdain – an opinionated former-chef with a penchant for pork who delivers delicious doses of snark in every episode of…

How I Travel: Santa Claus

Plain and simple, Santa Claus is the most widely traveled man alive, bringing joy to children wherever he goes.

How I Travel: Dan Levy

Comedian and obsessive airline miles collector Dan Levy talks about American Airlines, his packing philosophy, and sitting next to Britney Spears’ Mom in this week’s “How I Travel.”

How I Travel: Mark Twain

In this week’s How I Travel series, we examine the travel style of Mark Twain, one of the world’s best travel writers, through his own words.

How I Travel: Andrew Evans

Andrew Evans has packed a lot into his short lifetime—he’s a writer, an endless wanderer and even took a bus from Washington D.C. all the way down to Antarctica.

How I Travel: Kelly Liken

Kelly Liken knows her way around the kitchen—and she proved it on season 7 of Bravo’s hit show Top Chef.

How I Travel: Chris Carrabba

Chris Carrabba is the type of musician that’s a treat to behold: he’s thoughtful, friendly and deeply grateful for where his songs have taken him.

How I Travel: Zane Lamprey

Zane Lamprey is one of the few travel hosts on TV who doesn’t mind letting loose, drinking what’s handed to him and making good use of the international language of laughter.

How I Travel: Kyle MacDonald

This week’s “How I Travel” profiles Kyle MacDonald, who took one red paperclip and eventually traded it up to a house.

How I Travel: Justin Kredible

In this week’s How I Travel, we talk to entertainer Justin Kredible, who travels the world while making people laugh, and never leaves home without a deck of cards.

How I Travel: Claire Bevilacqua

Claire Bevilacqua is a thoughtful, a ripping surfer and a true travel aficionado. The 2003 Australian Juniors champ made the jump to the pro circuit as a 22 year old and hasn’t looked back since.

How I Travel: Andrew McCarthy

Andrew McCarthy’s inner vagabond wasn’t satisfied with a successful career as an actor and director – so when he met National Geographic Traveler’s editor Keith Bellows at a party many years ago, he…

How I Travel: Tony Wheeler

It could easily be argued that Tony Wheeler is in the running for ‘Most Influential Traveler Alive.

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.

How I Travel: Priscilla Levac

Priscilla Levac is a professional snowboarder, clothing designer and raw food expert.

How I Travel: Andrew Shelley

At age 27, Andrew Shelley quit his engineering job with a plan to travel the world.

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 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.

How I Travel: Ellen Hopkins

This week’s How I Travel profiles Ellen Hopkins, the New York Times best-selling author.

How I Travel: Franz Wisner

This “How I Travel” profiles Franz Wisner, a highly accomplished writer who got dumped at the altar and turned it into a career.

How I Travel: Don Wildman

This week’s “How I Travel” features The History Channel’s “Cities of the Underworld” host, Don Wildman. You may be surprised at how un-wild his travel style is.

How I Travel: Holly Beck

Pro surfer Holly Beck is addicted to adventure. Read all about her and her approach to traveling in the latest installment of our “How I Travel” series.

How I Travel: Rolf Potts

We’re kicking off a new series about how real people approach travel with this article – a profile of travel writer & vagabonder Rolf Potts.

How I Travel: Year-End Love Fest

At BootsNAll we love travel and we love people who love travel. This year, amidst our own wanderings, we found time to interview more than forty career vagabonds about their respective travel styles–…

How I Travel: Dhani Jones

Dhani Jones has it all—an NFL career, his own travel show and a pretty sharp line of bow ties. Needless to say he’s a busy man.

How I Travel: Amanda Pressner

Amanda Pressner is best known by the quasi-pseudonym she shares with two of her closest friends: The Lost Girls.

How I Travel: Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean is more than a travel writer—she’s a storyteller, who happens to tell lots of stories about foreign and exotic places. To date she’s published seven books, including “The Orchid Thief.

How I Travel: Robin Benway

A few years ago, Robin Benway was working in an office while harboring dreams of quitting her day job to write a novel.

How I Travel: The BootsnAll Writers

With BootsnAll set to make the next call for writers for our Travel Writers Platform, we thought we’d check up on each of the first five and ask them to share some of their favorite gems of road-worn…

How I Travel: Amee Donohoe

Amee Donohoe travels and surfs, and when she misses home she holes up near a secluded beach in her native Australia.

How I Travel: Twitter Edition

This week we turned to the travel experts on Twitter to get their best tips for smooth, safe, and memorable travels.

How I Travel: David Farley

This week, with An Irreverent Curiosity, hitting bookstores in paperback, David Farley made time to share his travel philosophy with BootsNAll.

How I Travel: Peter Shankman

Peter Shankman is the founder of HARO (Help a Reporter Out) a site that connects journalists under deadline with credible sources around the globe virtually in a matter of minutes.

How I Travel: Joey Harrington

This week, former footballer, sports broadcaster, philanthropist and family man, Joey Harrington gives us a look inside his carry-on, sharing the insights he’s gained through his trips to Indonesia,…

How I Travel: Kelsey Timmerman

Kelsey Timmerman wrote the book “Where Am I Wearing? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes,” a narrative that is both a deeply intriguing look at globalization…

How I Travel: Courtney Scott

In this week’s How I Travel we talk to cubicle refugee, travel writer, tv personality and full-time vagabond Courtney Scott.

How I Travel: Susie Floros

In this week’s “How I Travel” we talk to Susie Floros, who manages the Burton Snowboards women’s team, and travels around the world seeking snow and surf.

How I Travel: Sam Mehan

In this week’s “How I Travel” we talk to Sam Mehan, a native Australian who travels the world to connect with and learn from indigenous cultures.

How I Travel: Hosea Rosenberg

For this week’s How I Travel, we’re talking to Top Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg, about connecting with the locals, sampling street food, and bus trips gone awry.

How I Travel: Leon Mobley

This week’s How I Travel follows drummer Leon Mobley as he globe-trots with Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Nas, Damian Marley, and his own band, Da Lion.

How I Travel: Best of the First Ten Weeks

We’ve rounded up some of the best, funniest and most insightful thoughts on travel from the people profiled in our “How I Travel” series.

How I Travel: Stephanie Izard

“How I Travel” this week puts the spotlight on an up-and-coming celebrity chef, Stephanie Izard, who won Bravo’s Top Chef and is opening her own restaurant in Chicago.

How I Travel: Steve Bramucci

Want to learn more about the man behind BootsnAll’s new “How I Travel” series? Then let us introduce you to Steve Bramucci.