Outdoor Vacation – Taking A Beach Trip

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For the fortunate few, life isnt complete without a backpacking trip through Europe. This right of passage is believed to further the maturation process of college students, according to sociologists. Of course, others have opined that copious amounts of alcohol, sun and Amsterdam have something to do with it. Regardless of your purpose, you still have to figure out what to take.

Backpack – Getting In Touch With Your Inner Mule

Obviously, the first critical item is your backpack. While one doesnt need to buy the $10,000 Himalaya Turbo Pack, you should also avoid the $12 blue light special. So, how do you pick a happy middle ground?

The best method for picking a backpack involves three phone books. Select/swipe/borrow three yellow page books from neighbors/friends/enemies and hit your local sporting goods store. With the books, head to the backpackapalozza section of the store and pick out a few sturdy/cool/outrageous rigs. Stuff the phone books in, adjust the straps and go for a walk. Now break out into a run to simulate future dashes for trains/ ferries/ toilets and make the sales people nervous. These steps should quickly reveal the perfect pack.

Now, you may have read other publications suggesting highly technical ways to select a backpack. Trust me, until you have run for the last ferry from Italy to Greece, you have no idea how to pick a pack. The three phone book test solves this nicely.

What To Take

There are a few mantras that every person should chant before packing for Europe. These chants were developed originally by the little known, Oh-My-Back Monks of Southeast Asia. The OMB Monks were known for traveling half way to far off cities, turning around, returning home and then traveling the full way to said cities. Religious experts opined as to the deep metaphysical meaning of such trips. They were later embarrassed when the monks revealed the back and forth nature of the trips was due to forgetting something, often whether they had turned off the iron. Nonetheless, such chants have become the guiding light of experienced backpackers.

Let us slowly and clearly chant together,

I will pack only that which will not result in me being hunched over like a Sherpa.

Remember, I can pick it [(lower voice) toothpaste, book, soap] up over there.

I will not stuff thy pack to the point of bursting, for thy damn zippers always break/get snagged/refuse to work.

I will learn humility through wearing incredibly wrinkled clothes and shall not bring an iron.

I shall bring only one guide book, not one for each country that I MIGHT see.

I accept that I will come home wearing something I didnt take and will have lost/traded/burned much of what I did take.

For female travelers and, okay, the occasional male,

I will not bring high heels or a gaggle of make-up.

Admittedly, chanting these mantras will not bringing you immediate enlightenment. Fret, not. You can always throw items away or send them home in a box to your parents/friends/parole officer. For the resourceful backpacker, it is not unheard of to send particularly smelly/discolored/toxic clothing to an ex-girlfriend/ex-boyfriend/little brother. Follow these practical guidelines and you will soon happily be speaking in a loud voice to make foreigners understand you.

The Evidence

This is the hard part for most travelers to wrap their minds around. You will forget those special moments of your trip when you met the hunk Sven or babe Svenetta from Sweden and had a romantic evening/danced the night away/got arrested in Ios/Ibiza/the airport. Maybe not immediately, but you will eventually forget.

You will also forget or lose the contact information of people you meet, despite meticulously writing it down on the back of a coaster/napkin/your hand in a bar/poetry reading/jail at three in the morning. Surprisingly, said coaster/napkin/hand often survive the night/day/weekend and get deposited in your already trashed backpack. Of course, their presence is often forgotten when you later put a Oktoberfest mug/wet towel/toothbrush in. The extra padding at the bottom of your pack is specifically designed to deal with the decomposing result. Still, the information is gone and so is your future with Sven/Svenetta.

To properly record the magical moments of your trip, you must take a diary or journal. Dont worry, you can burn it later before you get married/your parents get nosey/you have kids. You want a journal in a water/beer/sweat resistant case. Of course, I prefer a Nomad Travel Journal, but just make sure you take something. When you have some extra time in the bus/train/jail cell, you can record how you got there and the people you met.

Trust me, when you, Sven/Svenetta and your nine children are sitting on the porch, you will greatly enjoy reading your journal.

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Traveling is a compelling pastime from time immemorial. Humans love traveling; they get restless if they stay put for too long a time in one place. Traveling answers to the quest for knowing more about other people, other cultures, other customs and traditions, other ways of living, other religions, and the list goes on.

All this makes traveling thrilling and one of the greatest ways of relaxation of all. Everybody loves traveling, but those who simply thrive on it are the students. Students, all over the world, undergo most trips in their pursuit of fun and adventure.

What Makes Student Travel so Special

Student travel is special simply because it is totally carefree. They have no worries to carry with them, they have their youth to support them, and they have the greatest possible discounts to encourage them. In short, student travel is actually the best travel experience you will ever have in your life. So, if you are a student, make sure you make the best of this opportunity.

The best way to get the most out of student travel is to seek out the special offers at different times of the year offered by different destinations and airlines. Work out an itinerary that would keep entertained for as long as you want – from one week to one year or more. Of course, the fun would be multiplied to no end if you decide to travel in groups. Groups are offered even better prices, and being together enhances the joy of any vacation trip to anywhere in the world.

Some Great Ideas for Student Travel Destinations

If you are bitten by the travel bug, you will do good if you indulge in it as much as you can during your student days. Once you leave the education stream and step into the world, the “free rides” are over. You have many, many choices, just make the best and the most out of it as soon as you can.

Visit all historic places in a continent, such as Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and so on. This type of a student travel trip is best endeavored with a group of colleagues and friends for three major reasons: traveling in group is great fun, traveling in group is safe, and traveling in a group gets the best discounts.

Volunteer with the UN Forces or any other world-famous volunteers, and travel wherever you are sent to help the fellow human beings out of economical, political or health problems. All over the world, students make for more than 75 percent of volunteers in development work, which is extremely commendable.

You might have learned to climb a mountain and you want to experience your prowess and strength. You might want to find out what it is like to raft down the rapids of a river, or the thrills that a Safari in an African jungle offers. The list is endless, because every day new quests are introduced by these youngsters, making impossible to know about everything all the time. However, the best thing is that you have some great choices waiting for you.