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I just found out that I'll be on call from 8am - 8pm, 7 days a week (rotating days) at work, forever. And no, I'm not a Dr., just a measly real estate catch-all that is working for workaholic owners. Found out today I'm getting a Blackberry so that I can be accessible at all hours of the day. This is tough for me since I really love "losing" my phone, so that I simply don't have to deal with it. On top of that I'll be managing the L.O's and the processors and working as head processor as well as originator. Holy Crap.

Anyway, this is why I need Bootsnall, so that I can remember exactly what I am doing in 10 months and why I am going to put up with all this bull$h*t. I figure by that time my blog will completely change from sampling beers and beans into my utter and vicious escape from hell. If I didn't have Bootsnall, I would be one more lost, paper-pushing soul swimming in a sea of callbacks, emails & annoying clients.

Why do you need Bootsnall?

Hang in there! You'll be drinking Guinness in Ireland before you blink.

Ewwwwwww Guinness. They sell that here as well, I can't stand it.

anyone else want to comment on why they need bootsnall in their life??

I need Bootsnall...

To remind that I used to travel a lot, and even went RTW (as each year passes, it seems more and more surreal)

To remind me that I will travel long term again! With my kids this time - there are quite a few families out traveling right now who are posting and they are my inspiration.

And to connect with people who "get it" I'm stuck here in suburbia where the words travel and resort are linked. I would lose my mind if I didnt know there were other people out there who understood the desire and the experience of being a traveler.

I love Bootsnall!

This is a good topic. I'm relatively new to the forums (about a year or so) nevertheless I need bootsnall for the fuel. It gives me inspiration, hope and the ability to dream without limits.

No one I know travels the way BnAers do, and everyone thinks it is either impossible, too dificult, not worth the challenges, too dangerous, blah blah, the list could go on.

I need bootsnall to give this traveling passion feet, to get my desires turned into action.

i need bootsnall to pass the time during my classes at school...to spread my love of traveling to others and find out about new and exciting places to go...

I need it to keep me sane lol

Seriously, I can always find someone who's been to the hotel/hostel I want to go...so i know i can ask someone for recommendations. Can't beat that!

I need Bootsnall for continuted inspiration and support. I just love this place!

I need bootsnall to remind me that I am not a freak, and that I am not the only person out there who actually thinks it's "normal" to spend 30 hours on a decrepit bus, eat food cooked in a metal tin on top of a halved oil drum, and sleep in a hammock on the beach.

Kath

Without this board I would go insane before my journey!

Can't say I need Bn'A, but it's good to be reminded here that there is always another way to go a second option to my usually boring, money producing existence.

Am I the only one who feels... I don't know exactly how to put it... self-conscious talking about travel with people who have never traveled much or don't care to? I often feel like discussing the great places I've been in the past could be seen as bragging, while talking about future destinations is just plain uninteresting to people with no particular desire to see the world.

None of my friends are the backpacking/vagabonding type, and I'd definitely go insane if I didn't get to discuss traveling with anybody. That's why *I* need BootsnAll. It's such a great feeling knowing that there's a message board full of people who not only share my passion for getting out into the world but also have tons more experience than I do and can teach and inspire me.

It's good to hear from other people who feel the same way. It's so interesting the way some people just don't even get it, which is just so bizarre to me. Whenever I talk about travel w/ the majority of people i know (work folks & the like), they think it is absolutely insane to leave work and go off and see the world. Furthermore, and more disturbing is their complete disinterest in exploring new lands. They really think that people from Asia, Africa, Peru (insert anywhere besides the U.S.) are actually different from them. They, of course, think all those people must be miserable and that they are above them. Their ideas of vacations are Sandals in Jamaica and crap like that.

Someone at my work keeps saying they want to go to Europe. Of course I got really excited initally and I'm always offering different things/places i think they would like, etc. In the end, it's always too strange, too foreign, too unlike home. What they really want is just to vacation w/ people who are just like them. It just blows me away. I can't even relate on any level. Then I take a little break and log on to BnA. It's great to be part of community that sees this as normal and as a necessity instead of a big splurge and waste of time & money.

Why do I need BnA? I just had to sleep in my van in the office parking lot again. Having only 5 (non-consecutive) hours off of the last 40, I had to get some sleep between when I got "off" work at 7:30am, before I had to be back for a 9:00am meeting.
BnA reminds me that while I'm probably (literally) trading in years off my life for the work I do now, it'll give me the funds to do a few decades of travelling.

I needed it for a dose of philosophy and spirituality as to the purpose of long term travel. I decided to do a RTW before I found this website, and initially I was saying to myself (in what I think is stereotypical American fashion) "oh man I'm going to hit every continent and 500 countries!! It's going to be so awesome!!" Checklist traveling writ large.

That isn't me, and everyone's experiences here have made my path much clearer.

I need it because I just moved to be to Brazil to be with my Brazilian partner, and I'm scared, excited, overwhelmed, ALIVE, happy, clueless, wondering if I made a huge mistake, but going on Bootsnall kind of makes me feel like I did the right thing. Thank you all!!!!

I've been reading these boards for a while now and finally registered so I could ask some questions of my own.

I'm glad I found you all because you make me feel normal. You make me remember that I can do a long trip - it's more than possible. I need you all to help me hold on to those ideas for the next 18 months.

Oh, and you know, figure out where to go!

Because you guys understand. When I say I'm going to yank my kids out of school and plop them on a bicycle seat and pedal 20,000 miles from one end of the earth to the other - you believe me. And you don't think I'm weird and a child-abuser! (OK - maybe you think I'm weird, but that's not too bad, is it?)

Bootsnall is good for sharing my travel experiences. And more I read and share my tips, more my travel knowledge expands here.

ALso I go for travelling most times for work. Probably, missed some of the travel places and tips on those areas, so it is interesting to know other travellers opinion.