Broke Backpacking: Getting the Important Stuff Sorted

 You have about one month before you’re trip! Exciting! So, not its time to kick it into high-gear and start fine-tuning your travel plans. I’ve already written a blog post about making a detailed, yet flexible plan, so after you have that down its time to start your research. Traveling into a foreign country requires…

Broke Backpacking: How To Be Detailed Yet Flexible on a Budget

 You’ve set a date, picked a route, and gotten you’re tickets. What next? I hope you gave yourself a little time to relax, because now we’re going to start the real work. The greatest thing about backpacking anywhere is having the flexibility to do and see whatever you want at your own pace. You’re not…

Broke Backpacking: Planning a Spontaneous Trip Overseas 

 Backpacking Europe is both a fun and daunting task. Almost on a whim, my roommate and I decided that we wanted to spend our summer backpacking throughout Europe since we [1] just graduated university and [2] were about to embark on real-world, adult stuff. Within a week we had our tickets purchased and we started…