Travel Tips and Guides for the Alternative Backpacker

Remember ‘Across the Andes’? The chronicle of two people – Deia and Gregg – traversing the Andes on foot, it…

Peace, love and crystals. Headlice, bhajans and brown rice – god bless the hippies.

Here at Road Junky we often spend hours at a time dreaming what would happen if we found a bag…

In a homogenous world of multinational symbols and tired old tourist cliches, the question might be asked: is travel dead?…

So it’s open season on backpackers – you’ve got your guidebooks and cheap banana pancakes as bait, so where do…

Searching for our tribe.

Love ‘em, hate ‘em, they still beat expensive hotels.

Across the Andes hikers Gregg Treinish and Deia Schlosberg have completed the inaugural trek across the continent of South America.

The Lonely Planet sells out for how many millions? Tell us, Tony.