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Why You Should Always Use a Guidebook When Traveling
O-M-G! I recently bought my first guidebooks so I can plan our upcoming ’round the world trip! I’m just starting to read them but they seem so useful! I can’t imagine how anyone plans a trip without one — you should always use a guidebook when traveling! I bought three of them: Lonely Planet Europe […]
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The Best Hostel Games to Play in Hostels
When you’re traveling long term, you’re not going to want to leave the hostel every night or every day. There will be a lot of times when you’re just too tired or hungover or over it to want to leave your dorm to go somewhere else. That’s OK — you don’t have to go out […]
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How to Tell Your Parents You Want to Travel The World After College
Here’s the big question: how to tell your parents you want to travel the world after college and not sit at a desk? My parents don’t know yet that I’m planning to take a gap year between college and getting a job. They think I’m going to start a career once I graduate, but I […]
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Five Best Excuses to Drink Around the World
After high school I didn’t want to go straight to college like everyone else I knew, so I decided to take a year off to travel around the world in the my last years of being a teenager. By the time I was 21, the legal age to drink in the US, I had already […]
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My Dream ‘Round the World Itinerary
Zach and I are going to travel the world for a whole year: that’s about a whole year longer than I’ve ever traveled anywhere before! Since I’ve never even left America I plan to cram as many countries as possible into that year. My ’round the world itinerary is going to be jam-packed with exciting […]
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Why I’m Afraid to Travel Around the World
Zach and I are planning a year-long ’round the world trip where we’re going to backpack around Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. I’ve never traveled outside of America before so I’m S-C-A-R-E-D. I don’t know what to expect — as excited as I am, I’m still nervous! Zach says I have nothing to worry […]
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Top Five Places I Want to Experience Around The World
Zach had traveled EVERYWHERE but I’ve never ever left America before! I am excited to get my passport soon so we can travel around the world! There are SO. MANY. PLACES. to see out there, but there are a few that I’ve been DYING to see forever. So I compiled a list of the top […]
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How to Apply for Your First Passport
I just applied for my first passport ever! I don’t have it (YET!) and I won’t get it for a long time because it takes 4-6 weeks and will be delivered to my parent’s house not my apartment at school. BUT. I. AM. SO. EXCITED! I’ll hopefully get to hold my very first passport when […]
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Meet The Backslackers!
We’re Amy and Zach — The Backslackers — and we are L-A-Z-Y. This summer, after we graduate from college, Zach and I are going to set off on an adventure of a lifetime: a year-long ’round the world trip. On our gap year between graduating college and getting real-world jobs, we’re going to backpack through […]