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...

As we noted in this month's post about the RTW ticket deals for November , one aspect of planning for a RTW trip that people often forget about is planning for the re-entry - in other words, preparing yourself for a return to life at home after your trip is done. This month's RTW Ticket...

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...

The question of taking mini-breaks at home between legs of a RTW trip came up on the BootsnAll boards (and consequently here on Vagablogging) earlier this year, so when I saw this thread on the boards I thought it was an interesting follow-up. BootsnAll member K2 is currently in Johannesburg and, he says, feeling a...

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...

Not long ago I mentioned that one of the most common questions that comes up among people planning a RTW trip is "is my itinerary okay?" That's a broad question, obviously, and it can break down into several smaller questions easily. One of them, and the topic if this month's highlight from the BootsnAll travel...

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...

This month's Round the World Ticket Watch newsletter from BootsnAll focused on the topic of how to narrow down a route for a RTW trip. The post about this month's RTW ticket deals earlier this month talked a little bit about picking an itinerary. And itinerary questions remain the most common ones on the BootsnAll...

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...

We all know what it feels like to have the travel bug - to begin planning your next trip on the way home from the one you're on (if you can even wait that long). Most of the time, planning a new adventure brings feelings of happiness - but sometimes that travel bug, the need...

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...

Round the world trips have retained their catchy moniker over the years, even though many people on RTW trips don't actually go around the world in one continuous loop (especially if they cleverly booked a multi-stop ticket that doesn't require movement in only one direction). This can make planning an itinerary easier, as you can...

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...

One of the traditional hallmarks of vagabonding is the idea that you'd arrive in a new destination having done the minimum required when it comes to advance planning. Maybe you've got a place to sleep for the first night, maybe you know a few things in that city or country that you definitely want to...

There are far more entertaining and sexy subjects when it comes to long-term travel than what it takes to stay healthy on the road, but there are also few things that can screw up a RTW trip more than getting sick when you're far away from home. This isn't to say that there isn't going...

The RTW trip lasted about two years and three days. It started in Pokhara, Nepal, and ended while traversing a pile of ceramic teacup shards this morning in Mirzapur, India. My left sandal has called it quits. In the moment before I accepted its passing, the sandal's life flashed before my eyes. A life of...

When you're planning a RTW trip it's easy to look at all of those places you'll be going as exotic, exciting, and far away (in more ways than one) from your current life. But sometimes when you actually get there, you find that it's a bit more like life at home than you were hoping...

With only a couple of months to go until kick-off of the first games in the 2010 World Cup tournament, the footy fanatics in the BootsnAll office are almost literally salivating over the countdown. Two of my colleagues will be in South Africa for the duration of the games, and luckily they made their travel...

There is no shortage of words written about travel, either on blogs or paper, that detail the fantastic things seen and done, the delicious things eaten. It's probably not a huge surprise that most travel tales don't include a basic "here's what my average day is like" entries, since they would likely seem a bit...

Generally speaking, questions about how much money someone makes or what they spend on a trip might seem like they're a tad too personal - but when you let on that you're planning a RTW trip, for some reason decorum goes out the window. People are so fascinated by the notion of traveling long-term, especially...