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The almighty GOOGLE!

Google again.

Once I knew that I'd be getting a nice settlement I started researching RTW trips and found my way here.

The site was listen in the this book as a resource about travel. I looked here and at some other sites most are too damn confusing to use especially lonley Planet. And here its nice and friendly. I like that.

Some link in a porn site...............................

Na, google.

one of my brothers...

I have been visiting this site often for a while. First found it thanks to the almighty Google. Finally decided it was time to apply.

I first came to Boots in early 2003 when I was toying with the idea of going to Nepal to teach English. Google came up with a few travel stories about the area. I really liked the idea, but ended up not having the money, so I joined a few months later when I started planning my working holiday to Ireland, which I did take in 2004 (though didn't find a job).

It's interesting - when I first started coming here, I spent a lot of time reading the travel stories, as well as spending time on the boards, but I don't think I've even looked at them in close to year.

Was Googling around for info on packs, found this, and immediately sat down to read all 2,439 posts on backpacks. Then I started appreciating the personalities.

I was looking for information on RTW trips and google brought me here! Although I explored a fair amount of the site before I came upon the forum... now this is the first place I come for anything travel related!

I googled a town in Costa Rica for information and someone had an interesting blog for that town and I noticed he was a member of BnA so i switched over and have been reading ever since.

i bought the book Vagabonding... by Rolf Potts last year and fell in love with it and everything he talked about, and then i went to the website, and then here i was! i like it, you guys have more of a community feel going on than lp does.

If I remember correctly, while living in Korea I was innocently browsing the internet looking for hostel information in Thailand and the rest is history.....

Have been addicted ever since.

Trekker

Googling innoculation req's for SEA

Same as JessieS. I saw BnA mentioned in a travel article in some magazine I was reading in a doctors office waiting room in San Diego. I have met several BnAers and have become good, dare I say lifelong, friends with a few. Amazing what can happen by picking up a magazine.

i don't recall exactly, but i think it was while i was researching places to go on my rtw trip back in 2003. might also have been to do with finding hostels. it wasn't until later that i discovered it was based in Portland (home). i don't think i actually registered 'til a while later (my forum ques while traveling usually went to LP).

I found out about this through a friend and had a few peaks at the info - didn't realise there were message boards at the time though. At a later date was googling something else and was directed to the boards here.

Now Addicted. This is how I escape from work - unfortunately work often interrupts though, but I persevere. This is one addiction I am keeping!! You can't make me give it up!!

I'm not sure. Think I came across it accidently. I was searching for info about NZ as I was travelling there.

It's a great site it's a fantastic site. Sometimes I wonder where the time goes to when I've logged on

Thanks heaps.


Have a nice day, Whistler.

If you can keep a sense of humour and see the funny side of life, you will never be old. SMC

Strange story coming up!

Where I study therer are a lot of International students, mainly from France and Germany, but also a large number from China abd Malaysia.

Well, at Christmas time, one of my flatmates went home to Germany (she was not returning after chirstmas like moany others have done) and she said she'd be back over in February to see us all again. Well she came back over yesterday and had something to show me in her passport.

When she went home and arrived at Frankfurt airport, she kindly asked the passport officer for a stamp (as a joke), not expectng to get one, she was very surprised when he actually obliged. Sure enough, she showed me it, and there it is...a German entry stamp in a German citizens German passport!

This got me thinking and I wondered how many EU stamps I could collect (living in an EU country means I am not entitled to any). I searched for other such stories and came across some posts on this forum... and here I am!

For the record I'm going to see if I can get a stamp out of Dutch immigration in April and Germany in July!

That's a great story, DonaldFisher - especially so for all the folks who lament not getting passport stamps anymore when they cross borders. Sometimes, all you have to do is ask!

I did that on the Germany-Switzerland border. Just ask for a stamp.