After our visit to Franz Josef Glacier yesterday, we’ve got two days of transport before arriving in Queenstown. Today we traveled to the hamlet of…
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Flashpacking
Woke up early this morning on the off chance there would be a dawn skydive in the works, but the sound of rain and outside…
May 4th marks the 2nd anniversary of my having left home to go on this big flashpacking adventure. A few of the things I’ve seen…
It’s a standard topic for many travel blogs: you should travel. We all know you want to, but there’s something holding you back. Whether it’s…
The Panjiayuan Market (aka. the Dirt Market) is a huge flea market held on the weekends that should be visited by all travelers and flashpackers…
Close the guidebook and open your mind – the first step to choosing a destination is to spend some time thinking about what kind of…
If you go flashpacking in Japan, you’ll undoubtably run across a Buddhist monk asking for alms. Â This monk was standing outside a temple in Osaka,…
Hostels are the ideal place for the flashpacker to lay their head. However, instead of sleeping in a dorm room with five other people, flashpackers…
I am writing this post from the ferry that is taking me from my home for the last year to exotic new locales. I didn’t…
Everyone, and I mean everyone, says they wish they could travel more. Travel means many things to many people, but regardless of which definition you…