When you’re a backpacker, you’ve dedicated yourself to a limited wardrobe, amount of necessities and overall lifestyle. Most likely, you’re probably sick of the songs on your iPod as well. If you hear Lady Gaga’s Poker Face one more time, you just might poke someone’s face. While you’re on the road, these tunes should get you pumped to be on the road less taken.
Gear
Through extensive research, I’ve put together a list of what I think are the best budget Point and Shoot digital cameras for backpackers. A few things were kept in mind: price, weight, quality, resistance, and size. These five things are essential to all backpackers.
I’m often pointed at for carrying such a small towel for after showering. This is because I travel very light. By light, I mean my backpack is carry-on acceptable on most flights and this is the same backpack I used to travel one year around the world. In the backpacker community, we have a common ground of packing light and having little negative impact on our planet. Everything on our back and perhaps even in the front is all we own for many of us, and we love it that way. It goes without saying then, what we carry and how we carry it is the single most important thing for backpackers.
I’m flying Avianca going from Lima, Peru to Bogota, Colombia for a few hours layover then to my final destination being New York City. From what I’m aware of, I don’t have anything that shouldn’t be in my carry on backpack. I’m passing the first bag check and following the usual orders of putting my backpack on the belt including everything in my pockets. I’m then pulled to the side and figured I may have forgotten to take something out. It’s my shaving cream
If you thought our Top 10 list of unusual items to pack was strange, get a load of this additional 5. Luckily, many of you appreciated the strange items you might want to bring along on your next trip. Upon recent travels in South America, this list has been compiled by actual backpackers like you. (and me!)
Its becoming the norm to travel with an iPhone. I seem to see more and more at each hostel I go to. It´s a conviently small device that can do so much. As a matter of fact, this article itself is being written on my iPhone while sitting next to the pool in the beautiful weather of Mancora, Peru.
With tons of backpacking lists online giving you recommendations on what to bring, getting ready for your big trip can be overwhelming. You’re trying to pack light, but you also need convenient and helpful things you won’t want to purchase abroad There are plenty of typical items we need to bring such as clothes, toiletries, and entertainment items. But, there are plenty of odd things that might come to good use.
As travelers, we have the option of bringing our portable electronics. In our daily lives, cell phones, iPods and laptops are attached to the hip. Recently, I wrote about how technology is taking over the Backpacking world. On my recent trip to Barcelona, I encountered the vigorous battle against technology. Getting lost in a city without Google Maps or Unlimited iPhone Data.
“What advice can you give me about cutting down the contents of my backpack?” That’s the question that my wife, Nicky and I, are often asked by those about to go travelling. Nicky and I first met in Latin America on a round-the-world trip so we are old hands on the backpacking scene. We know the crippling shame and crippled spine that you can endure as you realize you’ve over-packed your backpack compared with other travelers.
