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17 February, 2012
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Challenges

Islands in the Sea and Sky – Indie Travel Challenge

This Week’s prompt for the Boots’N'All Indie Travel Chellenge revolves around islands as travel destinations. I quite like islands. Actually I really like boats, but islands and boats seem to hang out together. In the past few years, I have island hopped in Greece and Croatia on cruises and spent a day on Hong Kong Island on the way to New Zealand, also islands.

9 February, 2012
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Traveling to Asia – Indie Travel Challenge

I’m keeping up (almost) with the BootsNAll Indie Travel Challenge. This week’s prompt is about travel in Asia.

If you’ve traveled in Asia, what’s your favorite destination? Share a story of one of your best experiences in Asia, or tell us about a place you love.

30 January, 2012
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Winter Is For Hibernation – Indie Travel Challenge

Here is the Week 4 Prompt in BootsnAll Indie Travel Challenge.
When the weather gets cold, do you prefer to head to sunnier locales or do you love the outdoor adventures or off-season prices of winter? Warm or cold, what’s your dream winter travel destination, and do you have any travel plans for the coming months?

24 January, 2012
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Learning Through Travel – Indie Travel Challenge

Week 3 Prompt: Have you ever studied or taken classes on a trip? What did you study, and perhaps more importantly, what did you learn while on that trip? What would you like to learn on your travels this year?

20 January, 2012
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Indie Travel Challenge – Week 2 : Indie Traveler

Week 2 Prompt: Are you an indie traveler? What do you think makes someone an indie traveler? Week two of the BootsNAll Indie Travel Challenge asks about the meaning of indie travel and whether I feel I am an indie traveler.

16 January, 2012
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Indie Travel Challenge – Week 1 : Planning

Over at Boots’n'All they are running a year of Indie Travel Prompts. One of my year’s resolutions is to write more and practice more at it. This includes blogging as well as the book that I have been chipping away at for nearly a year. This seems like a decent enough challenge, so here goes. The first week is about travel planning, so here is my entry.