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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I'm the kind of traveler who hardly can contemplate a trip to the store without tossing a small camera in my bag - so the concept of setting out for a long-term trip without a camera is inconceivable to me. Yet that's just what BootsnAll member circusoflife is planning to do . Circusoflife is currently...

It seems like the idea of traveling without somehow documenting your adventures online is a pretty uncommon one these days - so the question of how to document a trip has morphed somewhat from "should I keep a blog?" to "what kind of blog should I keep?" The question on the BootsnAll boards that we're...

An article that was published recently on BootsnAll got people talking. In his article, " Is flashpacking killing the art of backpacking? " Paul Dow draws a pretty sharp distinction between what I'll call "old school" backpacking and the kind of backpacking that more travelers are doing these days - the kind that involves things...

All long-term travelers have to start somewhere, and dreaming of a life of travel is certainly a reasonable beginning. But what if your dreams don't match what you'll find when you actually get out on the road? That's where experienced travelers come in. BootsnAll member Kadiri is 18 years old and lives in Australia. He...

Taking a long-term trip takes commitment - the same kind of commitment, one could argue, that a long-term relationship with another human being takes. So, if you've got one, can you have the other at the same time? Or does one of them have to suffer? BootsnAll member benleb is in a tough situation ....

Ask just about any long-term traveler why they've turned to the camaraderie of like-minded internet friends, and they'll probably tell you it's because their "real-life" friends just don't understand why they're so intent on hitting the road for so long. To a certain extent, that kind of confusion is understandable. Long-term travel isn't for everyone....

When you're just dreaming about a RTW trip, it can feel like anything is possible. When you move into the planning stage, that's when the rubber meets the road. Pricing out round the world tickets can be alternately exhilarating and frustrating, especially if you find that not everything is as it looks. BootsnAll member wanderingnotlost...

There are typically two schools of thought when it comes to taking long trips - either people save up enough money to just go and do the kind of trip they want and home when the money runs out, or people plan to work along the way to support an even longer trip than they...

One of the most common questions asked by people who are planning a RTW trip is, "Is this budget adequate?" Long-time visitors to RTW forums have no doubt seen this question in various forms countless times - but for the person who's asking, it's absolutely critical to their planning process, which is why I'm always...

Planning and then taking a RTW trip is often talked about in sweeping generalizations. It's all about the big picture, about embarking on an adventure of either very long or even perhaps unknown duration. But it has to start somewhere, right? BootsnAll member Skylab is hitting the road for his first RTW trip in a...

For some people, the research they do before a trip is part of the fun of travel. Poring over piles of guidebooks, asking question after question on message boards, whiling away the hours reading travel blogs... There's no end to the places where you can find information, and no end to the time you can...