#backpacking life

[batgirlbrit]

I found some new hiking trails and I really need to go get out and unplug

I miss trekking for hours on end and sometimes having to campout bc I’ve climbed too high or wandered farther than I intended

Nature: I’m coming for ya

Anyone is welcome/encouraged to join me

[teecrush]

Sunset Wanderer Pullover Sweatshirt

[andcovermewithdirt]

After managing to catch my flight just by divine intervention (aka movie scene where I'm crying to the security guard to let me jump the queue as my gate is closing and emerging from the security checks as "final call" is flashing on the screen, followed by a ten minutes lame excuse for a run to the farthest away gate I've ever had to head in my life), I landed in Malaga at 11.30pm last night and managed to reach my stay by midnight 😎.

The city is hot and gorgeous, I'm loving the south Mediterranean vibe ❤️ I'm enjoying it so much that I'm indulging in a post lunch siesta right now, as a proper local 🥵😅

As for this Andalusian adventure, I'd say I'm off to a great start 👌😎

[nerdwayoflife]

I cried when I first glimpsed Sydney from the airplane window. And I cried the minute I saw an illuminated Melbourne from my bus window. Seeing these new cities fills me with crazy amounts of emotional joy. I did it. I made it happen. I left the safe and comfort of every day life to experience new things.

Sometimes I think about the people I wished things could work out with relationship wise. Guys that I was torn up over because it didn't work. And then in moments like this I am so grateful it didn't work. Sure, I could be happy back in Minnesota building a life there. But I know for sure I wouldn't be doing the things I am now. We have to trust life. There are so many paths, so much potential for a happy life, whatever that may look like to you.

I'm just proud of myself. I'm proud that I grew up in the smallest Midwest town and now I'm here. Exploring gorgeous new places 10,000 miles from home.

[blessedsojourner-blog]

To adventure 🍻

[legyta]

Hitchhiking and chicken-busing through Central America in 136 days

It is 11th of August, 2015 when I get my passport stamped saying “entry to Mexico”. No real plan, very small budget, with one direction - heading towards south - I start yet another adventure in my life. 5 cars and 1 bus later I find myself at the border of Belize having £150 less in my bank account and almost one month into my travels. Another month, £100 down, 6 cars, 1 bus and 1 boat - I’m entering Guatemala. Having volunteered in self-sustainable community, eco-hostel and recycling project I now decide to spend some time with the children. Guatemala holds me for 6 weeks spending another £120. This time only 3 cars and 0 chicken-buses and I keep on expanding passport stamp collection - “entry to El Salvador”. Short 2 week visit, only £20 down, 5 hitchhiked cars, quick stamps of only 2 hours’ visit through Honduras and I enter Nicaragua. Beach time it is which holds me here for 6 weeks. Number of glorious chicken-buses: 2, hitchhiked cars: 3, decrease in my bank account: £150, increase in my tan level: huge; I’m getting stamped into Costa Rica. Oh, 6 hours waiting time at the border (not very wise to travel just after the new year), but luckily no one fines me for overstaying by over 2 weeks the permitted amount of 90 days in so called C4 block countries. I continue with the beach, but this time on the Caribbean side. 3 weeks, 4 cars, 1 bus, £50 and I collect my last stamp of Central American countries. Only 3 days, just 1 car and 1 bus to reach the Panama City on 25th January, 2016. £30 more gets used (£15 of which is for the one and only taxi taken in the case of emergency, by having become a really irresponsible traveller and arriving at the wrong airport). This is it. All in all, it took me 136 days, 27 hitchhiked cars, 6 chicken-buses and 1 boat to cross 8 countries in Central America (I’m including Mexico as it’s start of my travels). How much did it cost me? £620 including paying the border fees, buying more than half a litre of mosquito repellent, a little less of sunscreen and soap. I even managed, thanks to bargaining skills, to buy some cheap clothes. How much did I earn? 53 magical moments, 33 breathtaking sceneries, and it’s too hard to count how many beautiful and interesting stories from locals and fellow travellers met along the crazy, adventurous road.

[brucethespruce-blog]

Today was a pretty good day I didn't even have to use my ak

Icecube

[twomonkeystravel]

How travel changed my life, it can change yours too!

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