About WhyGo

WhyGo is a daily source of travel inspiration. It is not a question, Why Go? Rather, it highlights the reasons why we travel.

WhyGo is cultivated by the travel-obsessed folks over at BootsnAll, a website dedicated to independent travel. WhyGo’s purpose is to inspire, encourage and foster dreams of travel.

WhyGo is also fueled by traveler submissions. We are currently accepting photographs and short story submissions for the site. If you’d like to contribute to WhyGo, please review our submission guidelines.

To contact WhyGo, use our email form.

And if you’re in the mood for a laugh, you may enjoy our April Fool’s Joke from 2005:
Don’t Go!

Meet The People Behind WhyGo

Barrie

Barrie is a freelance writer who started his nomadic steps at an early age travelling through Europe, Central Asia and the Pacific. His love of Australia saw Barrie hitchhiking around the country and then sail across the Tasman to New Zealand where he explored the country on a motorbike. But, it was the Indonesian archipelago that mesmerised him and for the last few decades has spent a considerable amount of his time there ever since. He has written extensively about Bali and its culture and is always on the lookout for a good story or photograph. A graduate from West Coast College in Perth with Honors in Languages, he continued studying Anthropology and Cultural Studies at Edith Cowan University and considers himself a bit of an oddity who live on the edge of insanity. When he is not out researching and immersing himself in the numerous cultures of Indonesia you will find him trekking or climbing to the extreme.

Cristina Dima
Ever since she wrote her first travel article for the school’s newspaper more than 10 years ago, Cristina fell in love with writing travel stories. Years passed and later she found herself a travel agent dealing with Greece enthusiasts and she slowly, but surely, fell in love with this magnificent country.

For the past 5 years Cristina had some sort of a connection with Hellas, either writing about Greece or sending people on a Greek vacation. Her dream is to overload her memory cards with photos from her Greek vacations.

Daved Brosche
Daved likes to tell people he travels around the world looking for new adventures. Really what that translates to is that he is too cheap to want to live in the United states full time. Instead, he travels and lives in countries where he can make his American dollars go far.

Currently Daved is living in Costa Rica where he can cash in on the decent exchange rate and live it up for as cheap as possible. What’s not to love about a country where you can get $1 beers at a bar on the beach? If you are a budget minded traveler or backpacker, you are sure to find some useful information on just about all of Daved’s posts. This is especially true for Central and South American destinations, which Daved is quite fond of.

Jessica Spiegel
Jessica Spiegel has an unnatural obsession with Italy. The good news is that she found a job that actually encourages said obsession - she’s the writer behind WhyGo Italy, and she’s your go-to gal for any questions you have when planning your trips to the Bel Paese. In fact, she likes talking about Italy almost as much as being there. (Almost.) She’s currently working on a visa application that will let her stay in the country longer than the usual three months, and has not-so-secret plans to move there the instant it comes through.

In addition to WhyGo Italy, Jessica contributes to WhyGo Paris and WhyGo Spain, and she also maintains the daily travel inspiration part of WhyGo.

Julie Blakely
With French blood pumping through her veins, it is no wonder writer Julie Blakley fell in love with France at an early age (though the baguettes, pastries, and cheese certainly didn’t hurt either). With several trips to France with her family under her belt before she could legally drive, Julie set out on her first solo French adventure at 16, spending the summer in the Alps town of Annecy on a Rotary Club exchange. A stint living in Paris in 2005 while studying at the Sorbonne confirmed her deep love for France—a passion she tries to share while writing for WhyGo France.

However, Julie’s travel experiences and loves don’t stop in Europe. After a road-trip with the family to the tip of Baja when she was young and a recent 5-week backpacking trip through Panama, her love of Latin America (and fish tacos and mole) is almost as palpable as her love for France—giving her plenty of inspiration when writing for WhyGo Mexico and WhyGo Panama.

Michelle Snow
A life-long traveler and author of several guidebooks and blogs, writer Michelle Snow first became mesmerized by the lights, sights and sounds of Las Vegas in 2004 after visiting there on the whim of a dart on a map. Since then, the thrill of discovering what makes Sin City tick and charting its ever-evolving landscape has become an addiction she’s not ready to shake anytime soon. When not gambling on the Star Wars penny slot machines or finding the best place to enjoy a shot of tequila with a great view, she’s off exploring the city with camera in hand or grilling her contacts for the latest information.

Read Why Go Las Vegas for her latest tips and discoveries about America’s adult playground.

Peter Baxter
On an aging Honda 2-stroke Peter Baxter hit the road in 1979 and toured Zimbabwe for a month. It was the end of the long civil war that brought independence to the country that he had lived in since childhood and never been able to see. The following year he put his thumb out and hitchhiked 2000km to the Cape, and emerged from the trip with a clearer understanding of just how much there was to see.

Since then he has been an avid African traveler, punctuating long trips through the motherland with occasional overseas adventures, and eventually drifting into professional travel and guiding in Africa as the fever continued to burn. Peter has covered most of the countries and all of the mountains of sub-equatorial Africa, and written widely on the subject of Africa and African travel.

Roger Wade
A pair of family trips all over Europe by the age of 8 didn’t mean much to Roger at the time, but they ended up setting him off on a life of world travel and adventure. He continued to jump at any chance to visit a new place, whether it was a new city near home, or in a different part of the world.

Working as a freelance entertainment writer a few years ago, Roger realized he could work anywhere he took his laptop computer with him, so he set off on a full-year round the world trip that ended with four months living in Amsterdam. He’s visited around 45 countries, in almost every corner of the globe, and now he writes about Amsterdam, London, and many of his other favorite destinations for Why Go, in between dreaming about where he’ll set off to next.