Backpacking Tips

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How to Easily Pack Clothes in Your Backpack

June 27, 2010

Packing your clothes in your backpack may not sound like the most challenging thing in the world to do, but ask anyone who’s done it and undoubtedly they’ll admit it’s one of those things that’s harder than you would think. For the last couple of years I followed the methods on the OneBag site which [...]

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Big Bad Quito

June 21, 2010

“You’ll get robbed” they said. “Quito is a hell hole full of mugs, low life’s and degenerates.” “You’ll be lucky to leave with both kidneys intact, let alone your laptop.” Everyone seems to have an opinion about Quito, and it’s generally not pleasant. ‘The most dangerous place in South America’ had been bandied about while [...]

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Digital Nomad Lifestyle – Can you work & travel?

May 31, 2010

It’s 7:30am and the town of Boquete, Panama is just starting to wake up. But there I am, first up in the hostel, sitting with my MacBook Pro on my lap in the open-air dining area. I’m enjoying the refreshing breeze coming through the walkway, but more importantly I’m writing a client back in the [...]

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Your Path to Earning Serious Airline Miles & Free Travel

May 12, 2010

Hopefully you’re familiar with super-traveler & blogger extraordinaire Chris Guillebeau but if not, now’s the time to start. But this post isn’t just to kiss his butt, it’s to share his great eBook titled Frequent Flyer Master. I don’t buy many eBooks because I’m one of those stubborn fools who would rather spend 30 hours [...]

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Melbourne as a Backpacker

April 4, 2010

This post is supposed to be about doing Melbourne, Australia (my home town) as a backpacker. I wanted to write something on how those of us with itchy feet who want to be travelling but can’t (work commitments, saving money etc) can still do the little things to get that ‘on the road’ feeling back, by [...]

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Difficulties Traveling as a Vegetarian

March 8, 2010

Last year I was visiting Beijing. For my last dinner before an early train trip to Mongolia in the morning I went out to small restaurant around the corner from my hotel. Chinese food is amazing, in no small part because of the creative titles given to their dishes. There was pimple soup, wonderous pork [...]

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Traveling Without a Guidebook

March 3, 2010

I‘m writing this post in Northern Thailand, the city of Pai to be exact.  I find myself quite inspired by this trip I’m taking along with resident guest poster Shane Brown.  See we showed up to Thailand with only one thing planned, to rent motorbikes and ride through the northern mountains from Chiang Mai to [...]

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Some Destinations Aren’t as Glorious as Advertised

February 15, 2010

I’m so sick of the travel section of most mainstream newspapers. The Saturday ‘Traveller’ section of my local paper is pretty much pages and pages of advertisements thinly disguised as destination reviews. I’ve noticed that it’s pretty rare to find a less than flattering review written journalists that travel as ‘guests’ of the tour groups, [...]

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Travel Gadgets – How Many is too Many?

February 4, 2010

A funny thing happened to me the other day.  I was looking at all my lovely tech toys that could accompany me on my trips – and then I started hyperventilating. It was a sensory overload – a freakout over the simple task of surfing the net, but the conundrum of  what do it on? [...]

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How to Fly Like a Professional

January 31, 2010

If you fly routinely you’ll begin to pick up on a few things that the people who breeze through the airports do.  Most importantly, they probably ignore most of the people surrounding them which would make life easier, but is difficult to do.  It seems when people fly, they lose half of their IQ points. [...]

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