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So in all my extensive free time, I’ve self-nominated to re-write Wikipedia’s entry on Backpacking. I’m not sure why I want to do it, other than its uselessness is driving me nuts – that a good reason? I’ve come to realise it needs to be blown up rather than re-written but I’m struggling to get [...]

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I *know* I’ve added “backpacking” as a category more than once now, yet it never shows in my category list. It’s under “Travel and Tourism” but for some reason, sub headers don’t show here. Weird. Anyway… The other day, GoBudgetTravel asked “Is the Backpack Even Necessary“, which followed a post from this summer ” What [...]

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Once again, Peter Moore’s blog is the source of the Ozbus update. The main Guardian article has disappeared for some reason, but the message and response from Moore in the blog remain. While I agree with Moore in that the unexpected is very much a major part of independent travel – and related very much [...]

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No, not flying. I *like* flying. I don’t like packing so much. I pulled the backpack out of the attic this morning this afternoon — I was long overdue for a long sleep — and started to at least think of what I needed to bring. I wasn’t going to bring the backpack, but I [...]

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I was doing some research for my research design paper and in the process came across an article entitled Backpackers as a community of strangers: the interaction order of an online backpacker notice board (freely accessible PDF). Apart from piquing my curiosity as an interesting read, it seemed vaguely related to the issues surrounding buzz/currency and [...]

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via West of Mars, I found out about Kailana’s Ten Books you Cannot Live Without… Now I learnt back when I used to play the Relays that I had some weird tastes in books, so I’m not expecting this to be anything different… 1. Take Me With You – Brad Newsham – I love the [...]

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