Archive for: November 2008

November 3, 2008

Bangkok boat stop

Filed under: Thailand - 03 Nov 2008

I have no idea why I remember the name of my boat stop in Bangkok, Thailand

Maybe it’s because it was so unusual to have a boat stop instead of a bus stop or a train stop. Because …

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    Hippy Backpacking features articles and photos about backpacking in the hippies in the 60's era and more recent backpacking stuff. Like, post stone age. The posts cover - or will cover - cheap, ok, budget -travel in Australia, Singapore, Malaya, Thailand, Laos and Burma. There are - or will be - posts about travel in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, and the middle east, along with Europe. There will also be a couple of posts about New York City in the 60's.

    The hippy trail

    This was the overland route from Australia to (usually) England and vice-versa taken by backpackers. Only some of these countries were stops on the trail; Burma, the middle east, eastern Europe and (for geographical reasons) the United States weren't considered regular stops.

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It's a sticker that was handed out after a screening of the hippy movie `Easy Rider' at a movie house in Sydney, Australia, in the late 60's, and the profile in the banner is a profile of Dennis Hopper, the star of the movie.