Sean Keener, CEO of Boots-N-All is a friend of mine and one of the most passionate people I know when it comes to developing resources to empower and encourage independent travel. A few months ago he let me in on the Beta testing of the ace up his sleeve, and today I'm as excited as...

Back in the spring, we at BootsnAll published our first version of the Around the World Airfare Report. The purpose of this research project was to outline the various flight options available to round the world travelers and price out several real itineraries for comparison purposes. We not only recorded the difference in prices, but...

Generally when RTW and other long-term travelers begin mapping out an itinerary for their trips, one of the first considerations is cost. Sure, it'd be great to hop from London to Paris to Rome and spend several weeks in each one, but those are incredibly expensive cities. Start crunching the numbers and you'll see that...

As we've mentioned in the past, the RTW ticket deals we post each month here at Vagablogging are rarely literal round-the-world trips. We call them "multi-stop trips" around the office, but that's not really a common enough term for people to know what we mean immediately, so we default back to "RTW tickets" just to...

Every month we bring you the latest RTW ticket deals from BootsnAll - and we routinely call them "RTW tickets." If you're paying attention, however, you'll notice that they almost always don't technically circle the globe. What gives? Instead of being traditional RTW tickets, the tickets we sell on BootsnAll are a series of one-way...

The cost of traveling is in a near-constant state of flux, and most people who take the usual annual vacations know that certain times of year are more expensive for traveling than others. We're heading into one of the busiest seasons for several popular destinations, including Europe and the U.S., and we're seeing airfare costs...

As we turn the calendar over to another page (and quietly wonder how three months of the year can already be behind us), many of us will be moving ever closer to our next trip. For some, that will simply mean finally clicking the "buy" button on those airline tickets to Mexico that we've had...

One of the many issues that round the world travelers need to think about before they set off on their trip is related to health. Even a young and healthy traveler can be hit by a food- or water-borne illness, or suffer an injury, while on the road. If making sure you're prepared for an...

We usually talk about the air ticket deals we post each month as "RTW trips," because that's the most common shorthand for long-term travel. At the same time, we call them "multi-stop tickets" in the title of each post - because that's really all they are. Some round-the-world tickets you can buy do require you...

We've mentioned several times before how common budget questions are when talking about long-term travel. Unless you've got a means for making money as you travel - whether through a web-based business or by taking odd jobs along the way - you'll need to save up whatever you plan to live off of before you...

February is, to many, the dreariest month of the year. Couple that with more-brutal-than-normal weather in January and it's like the perfect storm of reasons to start planning your next trip. Of course, there are plenty of places that aren't in the depths of winter in February. Heading south at this time of year isn't...

Budget questions are among the most frequently asked when it comes to planning just about any trip, but especially long-term trips. When you feel ready to hit the road, the time spent waiting until you've saved enough money to travel can be agonizing - so what about taking out a loan and traveling now ?...

It's still difficult to believe it's already 2011 (although so far I haven't made the mistake of writing January 2010 as the date anywhere), but time keeps chugging forward. And you may not be surprised to learn that this is one of the most popular travel planning times of the year. As soon as the...

Time flies, whether you're having fun or not. But just because you've gotten older, settled into a good job, and started a family doesn't mean your long-term travel days are behind you. Sure, you might have already taken a RTW trip 10+ years ago, and the idea of bunking in 10-bed dorm rooms might not...

Obviously the most fun part of going on a RTW trip is the travel - but for many people, the planning stages hold their own appeal. Unfortunately, the vast majority of planning energy goes toward planning the trip itself, which leaves many people unprepared to handle the pressures of returning home again after the trip...

We hope you've been following along with Rolf's recent round-the-world trip, the No Baggage Challenge , and that it's served as some kind of inspiration to you in planning your own adventures. It's unlikely that most of you will travel in an extreme style like Rolf - with not only no luggage but on such...

There are fun parts of planning a RTW trip, and then there are the not-so-fun parts of trip planning. Unfortunately, despite the fact that budgeting falls into the un-fun category, it's one of those necessary evils of making sure your RTW trip is a successful one. Budgeting well for a RTW trip means more than...

One of the most common questions any vagabonder has to answer is "what route will I take?" The number of requests for feedback on a person's RTW itinerary on the BootsnAll travel message boards is staggering, especially after so many years of relatively similar questions being answered already. But if a RTW trip is something...

It's not like anyone who's on a long-term or RTW trip has to have a travel blog - after all, plenty of people blazed the vagabond trail long before computers were even a thing. But these days it's hard to find a RTW traveler who doesn't have some method set up for keeping track of...

Almost everyone who's planning a round-the-world or other long-term trip comes upon one part of the process that serves as their stumbling block. For some, they're paralyzed by the different options for multi-stop tickets and can't figure out which one suits them best. For others, settling on just one itinerary and knowing they'll skip some...