This isn’t to say this here BootsnAll blog will go to waste. Since it’s actually linked to my BnA member name and not my moniker “The Global Trip,” I’ve decided to use it as an insider’s look to my life as a backpacker, Bootie, blogger, and freelance travel writer. Rants, raves, slips, and tips — whatever I want to publish on-line that’s travel-related but doesn’t necessarily fall into the story style of my trip blogs.
Hang tight, and I’ll get to this blog once I get back from Timbuktu. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of the Mali blog…

It was exactly one year ago from today, on March 5, 2005, when I had completed a grand sixteen and a half month trip around the world, which took me to across 95,000 miles in thirty-seven countries in South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. To make a long story short, in the past year I have slowly acclimatized back to normal society after being “traveled out” — working, partying, and playing video games — and one year later, I have to say, my life is “normal” again.

This of course means I should probably get back on the road.

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