questions

“I am currently studying design and as part of a recent brief am required to research a bit about backpacking. I have never travelled overseas before and would be interested to know, as a backpacker, what kind of things would you want to know about a city you have just arrived in from other backpackers who have already been there? If anyone could help with this it would be greatly appreciated”

“Where the grocery store is and a cheap place to crash for the night.”

“What items I can and can't travel with...”

“Traveling overseas, the term "backpacker" usually means a tourist who uses a single backpack as luggage, and usually travels cheaply. Overseas, the term "trekking" usually means hiking and camping on trails in the wilderness. I would guess Rmit Student's question refers to backpacking as traveling overseas cheaply.

The things I would want to know traveling cheaply overseas is:

1. Unpublished changes and/or errors in the commonly used, Lonely Planet Guide for the area.

2. Good Restaurants.

3. Locations of clean guest houses.

4. Wilderness locations to go trekking (backpacking).”

“sounds like rmit has a european concept of backpacking.

US version-City? We don't need no stinking city!”

“I am with pathman on this.

I had a dream about hiking last night. Very depressing.

I had hiked to a friends party and saw a bunch of old friends. I left the party to continue down the trail and the trail was a solid stream of people. Evidently this is a very popular trail this time of year. Well down the trail I realized I had lost my pack. I went up a hill and a girl called out that I would get lost. It is dark now. I go back to the sea of people and we are following a stream to a hostel or cabin area. More people. The trail goes through a building and I open the ladies toilet instead of the exit. Very embarrassing. I go out to another building and now I have to pee, but the john is filthy and crowded, so I go to a back porch and I see a pair of gloves. Someone approaches. I still have to pee, but someone tells me they saw my packs. (Now I had two). He said they were very near the edge of the water and the water was rising. I go back against the sea of people and it is like all uphill and sand. I can barely move it is so hard. A one legged man passes me in one step. It gets blurry from there, but I woke up exhausted.

You can put this in your paper. People who backpack have nightmares about it.”

“Join International Youth Hostels Association (Google it for your country). Can't be beaten.”

“Which pub has the coldest beer and best music.”

“I am with chili on this one!”

“LOL at MAT's dream”

“MAT does this have something to do with a bed wetting problem?”

“LOL at must hike.”

“It may have had something to do with the rock hard diamond cutter I woke up with. I had to stand on my head to pee this morning.”

“I thought women sat down to pee.”

“I hate it when that happens.”

“That might explain the difficulty walking?

Get yourself a dream book. You've got things to figure out.”

“I think I know where the one legged came from.”

“I had a dream I had my hand up an elephant's @ss.










Don't laugh, I was trying to pull you out.

8)”

“Depends where you are - first thing you need to know is where you're going to stay, get some advice from people there at the time. There are books for this, but as soon as a place is in the loneley planet books then they jack the price up.
The other things are if there's anything you should aviod, such as crime issues, good places to go, places to see, anywhere that you can pick up bargain. Other than that most of the information is out there.
Oh, also find out how much taxi rides and such should cost. Taxi drivers around the world will rip you off at the drop of a hat. Also other transport options for moving around are worth finding out about. But as I said, the first thing is finding somewhere good to stay, once you've done that then you can find out the rest as you go.”

“Plus you have to learn to speak French. That would suck.”