BootsnAll Travel Community

The url came to me in a bad acid flashback. Trippee sheet mon....

What brought me to BnA? The Ladys here.......Duh

(my sister)


but isnt that obvious?

Trying to plan my trip. I haven't left for it yet. But i'm hell addicted to these boards already....

I heard about BnA from a fellow university student in Chicago. She is friends with the founders and knew I was moving to Poland to teach after finishing my elementary ed.studies. She figured I could benefit/share from/with ya'll. So that's what I've been doing! I'm itching to partake in one of the trips, but still saving (teachers salary and all...).

The hand of google

It was the cheese.

Jim Paris

Pretty much the same as most folks -- I was researching for a planned trip and found myself here.

I was looking for info on traveling RTW and kept ending up on the site!

I was reading lots of travel books on my exercize bike ( that is now sold..boo hoo ) and one of them was an interesting one from the library, Rolf Pott's Vagabonding.

He mentions bootnall in his links..so I checked it out & have been enjoying it ever sense.

I was trying to find out about travel from Manila to Hong Kong. Sometimes it's really cheap here. Then I found a neat article. There weren't any links on the page, but up at the top in the url, the main URL was bootsnall...so I came here. That's my story. Exciting.

I stumbled across Rolf Potts Vagabonding book and enjoyed reading it immensely - in which he has many great resources, and what do you know I found this little gem.

I just stumbled across it while googling for info on round-the-world trips. Thank god I found it. I'm not sure I would've taken the leap (my extended travels start in January) without it. I knew people took gap years based on my previous travels, but I thought those types were few and far inbetween. I was thinking (as were many of my colleagues) that I must be the craziest person in the world to leave a steady job, career, life just to check out of here to check out the world. Then I found bootsnall and realized that, while I am surely insane, there are many, many, many more like me out there. Thanks!

I went through a period when I would just read travel stories all the time, trying to make up for the fact that I can't leave on my tip til next year. I stumbled across BnA a few times, then discovered the RTW section, then on to the forums.

Before I found BnA, i didn't even know that people travelled with carry-on bags on long trips. I'm still nervous about next year, but hearing about other people doing adventurous things has really helped with the confidance thing, if only i could convince my friends and family it was a good and safe idea.

So I suppose I'm just the same as most people, stumbled across it.

My first solo trip, four days in London. Nothing incredible, but I was anxious about it because everyone kept acting astonished that I would travel alone... So, that fed into more anxiety.

Between the travel articles and advice on the boards, I had a great first trip, and tho I can't shed my job and do it up proper, I have traveled solo to Scotland, London again, and to Italy.

And boots-n-all has been part of all that. =D

Pretty much like everyone else... I was surfing for porn information about an upcoming orgy trip and I needed some lubrication info.
The rest is STD history.

Back around 1995, I was a avid member of the AOL travel boards and used them extensively to plan my trips. By '98 or so, I had weaned myself off AOL (plus their boards started going downhill) and resigned myself to surfing the spammy boards of rec.travel.europe. Occasionally, I'd find a few other boards, but nothing like what I was looking for. Then, just the other day, someone on the newsgroups gave a link to here and said it was an awesome travel board. So I came and I'm hooked...

I googled somewhere I was going and an article from here popped up, and it wouldn't let me read it until I registered. So I did.... and the addiction began....

Googled 'hostels' and this site came up. Joined up straight away and am having the best time reading through all the previous posts and finding out about everyone's adventures.

i thought about it for a few minutes...have no idea how I came about this fantastic site...I actually think i was looking for hostels like the person said above and this site came up...I think...

regardless i'm glad i did!