Date: Saturday, December 5th, 2009 Time: 6-9pm (to start with) Place: Emanon Café, NW 17th & Lovejoy The annual BootsnAll Holiday Party is back! Join us as we talk about travel with fellow Portland travellers and out of town guests. After we blew out all the stops last year for our 10 year anniversary we’re going a little

, and to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa – and one of the most climbed mountains in the world. Anyone who is reasonably fit can climb Kilimanjaro and trek for one week up to see the actual fabled snows of Kilimanjaro, which sits just south of the

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As a follow-up to Monday’s article about proper hostel etiquette — a must-read for first-time travelers — BootsnAll has this list of the “7 Deadly Sins of Travel,” which, I guarantee, even the most seasoned travelers have partaken in the past. (Given to any beggars during your trips?) Regarding #1, “Taking budget travel too seriously” — something I ...

... a peek into a small subculture I knew nothing about, and still don't entirely understand. Geography of Bliss author Eric Weiner explores the backpacker ghetto of Thamel, a district of Kathmandu in Nepal. Over at Bootsnall, Eileen Smith details the ins-and-outs of wine tasting in South America. I'm not much of an oenophile myself, but when I tried the Carménère in ...