As a backpacker, there are some things that friends and family at home just won’t understand: The partying, the hostel hookups, the 16 hour 3rd class bus tickets “because they were $5 cheaper.” You’ll share these stories with enthusiasm…
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With Soviet-style architecture, a swashbuckling array of stereotypes and seriously cheap food and drink prices, Eastern Europe may just be the best place to visit as a backpacker. “But is it safe?” people ask. “Can I get around easily? I heard…
With long stretches of sandy beaches, world-class surfing and hundreds of thousands of acres of unruly rainforest, it sounds like an exotic and tropical paradise. Except this location is found right in our backyard. Tofino may have started as…
Ambling along in a ramshackle boat through the still waters turned golden by the setting sun, backpack huddled between my knees, I felt an easy heaviness as I lazily smiled back at my travel companions. We instantly knew we…
Everyone loves to ask me if I have ever fallen in love travelling. It’s asked by my aunts at family dinners who worry I’ll die a spinster. It’s asked by colleagues and friends who have a hard time…
Nursing hangovers made harder by the rocking of the three-hour slow boat, we disembarked across a single plywood board held down only by shirtless locals. As we unsteadily got off the boat, we were hustled to the side as…
Having your garage painted, birthing a blood diamond, parting the Red Sea, massacre at the Y… All of these are code words passed down by generations of women used to mask the fact they’re on their periods. A secret…
Being in great shape was one of the worst things to ever happen to me. Hold on. Wait. Did she just say that? How – with “strong is the new skinny” and “love your body, love your life” mantras…