Travel Tips and Guides for the Alternative Backpacker

A look at when travelers send postcards from the edge and never quite come back.

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Learning a new language can be done for free. It will win you friends, deepen your travel experience and may…

Strap on a guitar, slip a blues harp in your pocket and if all else fails… there’s always the kazoo.

You’re like gold to the pickpockets, bag-robbers, and scoundrels of the world.

Hippies are alive and well in these gatherings in nature where travelers from all round the world come together.

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

A traveler’s best friend?

Just in case you think Road Junky is a bit too cynical at times, deep down we’re bright-eyed hippies and…