Real-time travel guides written by backpackers. www.backpackforever.com.Tumblr (3.0; @backpackforever)http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/<p>Visit our Facebook page to see if you won the Return to Europe Giveaway! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/backpackforever?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/backpackforever?ref=hl</a> </p>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/33010265532http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/33010265532Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:56:21 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma86p6APH61qii7doo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Only 10 days left to enter our summer giveaway! Win a free trip to Europe with BF, Eurail + ExOfficio. Details here: <a href="http://www.backpackforever.com/return2europe/"><a href="http://www.backpackforever.com/return2europe/">http://www.backpackforever.com/return2europe/</a></a>.</p>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/31442362673http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/31442362673Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:57:57 -0500giveawaycontestfreesummereuropebackpackingtravelttot<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6a7v7gAUW1r6sq2ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/29472095167http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/29472095167Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:09:07 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7xxp5zJzZ1qii7doo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>This summer, we’re giving away a return trip to Europe (includes airfare, Eurail pass, and Exofficio travel clothing). All you have to do is share one tip about Europe. All entries must be submitted via BackpackForever.com/Return2Europe. Contest ends Sept 21st. Whatcha know about Europe?</p>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/28286278760http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/28286278760Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:15:05 -0500travelbackpackingeuropegiveaway<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1s0zs3qVx1qjvnc4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://travelingcolors.tumblr.com/post/27619716129/colourful-tanji-the-gambia-by-oldt1mer">travelingcolors</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldt1mer/5602462711/in/photostream/"><strong>Colourful Tanji | The Gambia </strong>(by oldt1mer)</a></p> </blockquote>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/27625332387http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/27625332387Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:33:24 -0500africagambiatravelfishingcolorswillseethis<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6k1dn3pLm1qbvqopo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/26881411981http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/26881411981Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:44:43 -0500travelwaterdivingsnorkelingnaturebeauty“‎”Travel is never a matter of money but of courage” ― Paulo Coelho”http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/26420064531http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/26420064531Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:34:46 -0500travelquotes“Travel is little beds and cramped bathrooms. It’s old television sets and slow Internet connections. Travel is extraordinary conversations with ordinary people. It’s waiters, gas station attendants, and housekeepers becoming the most interesting people in the world. It’s churches that are compelling enough to enter. It’s McDonald’s being a luxury. It’s the realization that you may have been born in the wrong country. Travel is a smile that leads to a conversation in broken English. It’s the epiphany that pretty girls smile the same way all over the world. Travel is tipping 10% and being embraced for it. Travel is the same white T-shirt again tomorrow. Travel is accented sex after good wine and too many unfiltered cigarettes. Travel is flowing in the back of a bus with giggly strangers. It’s a street full of bearded backpackers looking down at maps. Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was. It’s the rediscovery of walking somewhere. It’s sharing a bottle of liquor on an overnight train with a new friend. Travel is “Maybe I don’t have to do it that way when I get back home.” It’s nostalgia for studying abroad that one semester. Travel is realizing that “age thirty” should be shed of its goddamn stigma.”<br/><br/> - <em>Nick Miller | <em>Isn’t It Pretty To Think So?</em><br/>—<br/>Nick Miller you are so spot on.<span class="quote"></span> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://nat-filko.tumblr.com/">nat-filko</a>)</em>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25928798423http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25928798423Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:06:00 -0500travelquotes<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5yj8zaOzC1qg0k8no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://evysinspirations.tumblr.com/post/25912715999/bagno-vignoni-by-klausthebest">evysinspirations</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Bagno Vignoni (by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/klausthebest/4994014396/">klausthebest</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25912775505http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25912775505Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:22:23 -0500travelbackpackingadventureitalysummerwater<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4tkhqk5Kl1qjkapko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25648424326http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25648424326Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:19:47 -0500travelbackpackingjourneyadventurewatersummer““If I’d learned one thing from traveling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don’t talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.”<br/> ― Alex Garland, The Beach”http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25595246269http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25595246269Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:27:19 -0500travelbackpackingadventuresquotes<a href="http://www.danielbaylis.ca/travel/price-cost-one-year/">How much does it cost to travel the world for a year?</a>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25517794816http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25517794816Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:40:41 -0500travelbackpackinggap yearcareer breaker<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5tz8kClSY1qii7doo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Travel Made Me Who I Am Today — <a href="http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/12-06/travel-made-me-who-i-am-today.html" target="_blank">Read More »</a></p>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25384645702http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25384645702Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:50:44 -0500travelbackpackingjourneyspainlongreads<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/43727426" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25159448692http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25159448692Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:26:03 -0500travelbackpackingjourneyasiavideo<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5mu524ZBK1qii7doo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25125065290http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/25125065290Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:17:26 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4edu8xbp01qii7doo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>BF <a href="http://www.backpackforever.com/knowledge/central-america/costa-rica/" target="_blank">Costa Rica Travel Guide</a> cover photo by <a href="http://www.expertvagabond.com/" target="_blank">Expert Vagabond</a>. A coati in Corcovado National Park finds lunch, a Halloween crab….<br/><br/><br/></p>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/23511078388http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/23511078388Mon, 21 May 2012 19:10:00 -0500traveltravel sitesbackpackingcentral americacosta ricarainforesttravel tips<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xlflACRQ1qii7doo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>New BF Travel Guide cover photo for Ecuador!</p>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/22930119657http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/22930119657Sat, 12 May 2012 17:35:45 -0500travelbackpackingecuadorphotoportraitfamily““The sight of the world put mad ideas into me; as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other.” ~ CS Lewis”http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/22874999472http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/22874999472Fri, 11 May 2012 20:44:24 -0500travelquotesjourneyadventure<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3vqjw9b4m1qii7doo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>5 travel videos to soothe your itchy feet » </p>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/22863073312http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/22863073312Fri, 11 May 2012 17:31:06 -0500travelbackpackingvideos<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m09upctW6K1rqpa8po1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://exp.lore.com/post/18615054217/a-visual-anthropology-of-the-worlds-last-living">explore-blog</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>A visual anthropology of <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/10/14/jeroen-toirkens-nomad-book/">the world’s last living nomads</a> from Dutch photographer <strong>Jeroen Toirkens.</strong></p> </blockquote>http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/21848523267http://backpackforever.tumblr.com/post/21848523267Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:28:26 -0500nomadstravelphotos