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Visit our Facebook page to see if you won the Return to Europe Giveaway! https://www.facebook.com/backpackforever?ref=hl

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Only 10 days left to enter our summer giveaway! Win a free trip to Europe with BF, Eurail + ExOfficio. Details here: http://www.backpackforever.com/return2europe/.

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This summer, we're giving away a return trip to Europe (includes airfare, Eurail pass, and Exofficio travel clothing). All you have to do is share one tip about Europe. All entries must be submitted via BackpackForever.com/Return2Europe. Contest ends Sept 21st. Whatcha know about Europe?

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Colourful Tanji | The Gambia (by oldt1mer)

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‎"Travel is never a matter of money but of courage” ― Paulo Coelho

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Travel is little beds and cramped bathrooms. It’s old television sets and slow Internet connections. Travel is extraordinary conversations with ordinary people. It’s waiters, gas station attendants, and housekeepers becoming the most interesting people in the world. It’s churches that are compelling enough to enter. It’s McDonald’s being a luxury. It’s the realization that you may have been born in the wrong country. Travel is a smile that leads to a conversation in broken English. It’s the epiphany that pretty girls smile the same way all over the world. Travel is tipping 10% and being embraced for it. Travel is the same white T-shirt again tomorrow. Travel is accented sex after good wine and too many unfiltered cigarettes. Travel is flowing in the back of a bus with giggly strangers. It’s a street full of bearded backpackers looking down at maps. Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was. It’s the rediscovery of walking somewhere. It’s sharing a bottle of liquor on an overnight train with a new friend. Travel is “Maybe I don’t have to do it that way when I get back home.” It’s nostalgia for studying abroad that one semester. Travel is realizing that “age thirty” should be shed of its goddamn stigma.

Nick Miller | Isn’t It Pretty To Think So? — Nick Miller you are so spot on. (via nat-filko)

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Bagno Vignoni (by klausthebest)

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“If I'd learned one thing from traveling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.” ― Alex Garland, The Beach

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Travel Made Me Who I Am Today -- Read More >>

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BF Costa Rica Travel Guide cover photo by Expert Vagabond. A coati in Corcovado National Park finds lunch, a Halloween crab....

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New BF Travel Guide cover photo for Ecuador!