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April 25, 2009

Thai family life bathing

Filed under: Thailand - 25 Apr 2009

It was pretty strange to have a family around me after traveling alone for so long
It was like discovering a strange tribe, a tribe that had rituals, close relationships and mutual dependency - all the things that I wasn’t accustomed …

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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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September 10, 2008

Bizarre backpacking van

Filed under: Australia, Myanmar, Thailand, World War 1 - 10 Sep 2008

This is the old van that I used for backpacking around Australia - sometimes it felt as if I was driving an  advertisement around
The ad. on the side of the van is for a neon lighting company - a company called …

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  • About hippy backpacking

    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.

About the hippy backpacking header banner

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.