It sure is!

You don’t know what to write down when asked for your permanent address.

You don’t know what to write down for occupation on the customs forms.

:)))

great reading, as usual!
cheers Matt and team 🙂 and happy travels!

Not only do you ask someone where they’re from before asking their name, but you also ask “where have you been”, “where are you going” and “how long have you been traveling”?

And I’ll add that you find yourself doing things that you wouldn’t even dream of doing back at home. Like taking a spontaneous 2 day/1 night tour on the back of a motorcycle with a guy you literally met five minutes earlier when he approached you on the street, but he seems nice and trustworthy. Then it ends up being one of the best experiences you had in Vietnam.

Yup, I’m a backpacker and love it!

yes ! “travel bores” are still bores..some can talk about NOTHING but their travels & are so into one-upmanship trying to list obscure places others in the group haven’t been to..

“What? you’ve never woken up on the side of Mt. Kilimanjaro with a goat in your sleeping bag? you haven’t LIVED” lol

But one I’d argue is done all over the world is that you know you are a backpacker if you are constantly reorganising your pack because you can never get it quite right!