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Backpackers as a Community of Strangers

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 use of travel guides, etc.

It found that backpackers constituted a heterogeneous group with respect to the diversity of rationales and meanings attached to their travel experiences.

I found that statement to be one of the most crucial that applies to working with backpackers. At the same time, . . . → Keep Going: Backpackers as a Community of Strangers

Working Abroad

The Pros and Cons of Working Abroad (via Backpackers’ Travel Blog).

Now this isn’t a topic I know anything about When I was in high school and college I said that my dream was to live and work abroad. I’ll never forget when a student told me, during my first time in Japan, “You need a new dream, you did that one.”* Of course I knew I was living and working in Japan, but it hadn’t really hit me-if that makes sense. While I enjoy the occasional quickie vacation that’s just that, a vacation, I tend to want to travel . . . → Keep Going: Working Abroad