And we’re off! Welcome onboard and thanks for an awesome first week

There was much to be thankful for during this Thanksgiving weekend. On behalf of my co-founders Michael and Fred and the whole team at Busbud, we’d like to thank you for your wonderful response to the site during our first week.

We’ve received hundreds of emails with kind words, feature requests, new routes to add, and ideas for the blog. We thought we’d be launching the site to an audience of a few friends this week, but we’ve received feedback from new users halfway around the world in Costa Rica, Switzerland, Brazil, Israel, Spain, Mexico, UK, Australia, France, Italy and Turkey. Thanks for visiting the site and taking the time to write in.

I also wanted to thank the travel bloggers who’ve submitted feedback this week, it’s been nice to hear from you. Special thanks goes to Wandering Earl, who kicked off our Q&A series with a great message about the power of independent travel. Check out that post and stay tuned for more inspiring interviews on the blog with nomads, adventurers and travelers. In addition, many of you liked our site on Facebook, followed us on Twitter and shared the posts that we published this week. Thanks for that!

We are building the site in the hope that it can become a useful resource for independent travelers around the world. In fact, we envisioned from the start that this would be a community built for travelers by travelers. After almost one week, I can already say: it’s been great meeting you so far, community!

Keep the feedback coming, we love hearing from you!

You can email us at info@busbud.com. If you have a suggestion to share, you can also consider using the blue Feedback tab directly on the bottom right of the Busbud site.