Backpackers On The Road: Round The World Travel Blogs
All around the world there are backpackers on the road, writing about their travels in trip journals as they go. These journals can be incredibly inspiring, and are often very informative, giving insights that one doesn’t get from reading a destination guide.
Today we’re featuring round-the-world traveller, ‘Bootsmade4wlkin’, from Arlington, Virginia (USA) who though no longer travelling, spent about a year (2005/6) wandering the globe.
Her travel blog, entitled ‘Because it’s the only thing I know for sure that I want to do…’ will take you on a journey that starts in Australia, on into Asia, through Russia and into Europe, before her return home in September 2006.
It’s a blog full of insights. The joys of travel, the excitement of new places, the good times and the bad times, and the challenge of going back to a normal life once you get home.
Here’s an excerpt from her last entry before she returned to the States:
Back to reality… a reality that is more foreign to me than the squat toilets of SE Asia. Sitting here in a cafe crammed with little tables, the smell of smoke wafting around me, I find myself paralyzed in time. I can’t go forward or backward. If I look to the future, a black hole looms. The big ‘What next?’ question is so overwhelming and unknown, I can’t begin to face it. (link)
If you’re looking for inspiration and insight on round the world travel, read this blog!
Posted in Cool Travel Blogs, General Travel, Travel Community
November 5, 2006 at 9:40 pm
(out of context …)
I look at what’s a perfectly good site and wonder why people don’t comment more often.
And then I think – if these people had the patience to comment, they wouldn’t really be travelers in the first place ..
I love the tagline Lonely Planet uses: “therefore I travel” … captures the spirit of the eternal traveler
November 6, 2006 at 5:13 am
Takes up precious internet cafe time! Though I do think a few comments here and there could get a conversation going.
Suppose maybe people go to the forums for that sort of thing… dunno.
November 30, 2006 at 5:17 pm
I can partly appreciate your feeling at the end of the Global Jourey. Everybody has a blackhole waiting for himself, somewhere , sometime in the future. Me 2. haha.
I guess you should take a deep internal “Adventure Tour” in your next step. I am very much attracted by the acient Chinese religion and Philosophy, such as Buddha, ZhuangZi, Lao Zi.. .. e.t.c
Well, worth a shot. I am planning to help more and more foreign friends to come to China to experience such kind of beautiful and everlasting mystery. Anyway, hope my blablabla…….. is something for you.