PHP: Hippy backpacking

Category: World War 1

April 28, 2009

Backpacking or camera backpack problem

Filed under: Backpacking equipment, Other travel, World War 1 - 28 Apr 2009

Most backpacks are primarily designed for backpacking - for storing travel stuff, rather than for storing cameras and camcorders. Other backpacks, often called camera backpacks, are primarily designed for storing cameras and camcorders rather than for travel stuff
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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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August 1, 2008

Battle scene comparisons

Filed under: World War 1 - 01 Aug 2008

When I was backpacking around the World War 1 battle scenes a strange thing happened, I started to compare the time it took me to travel a certain distance with the time it took the soldiers in WW1 to travel …

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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.