Ex-army backpacking equipment has an air of reliability about it - if an army depended on it it must be reliable.
This attitude conveniently ignores the fact that armies are sometimes defeated, whether they have reliable equipment or not.
I mean, who …

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 …

Just about everybody in Turkey seems to be enthusiastic about Ataturk, and after a while you start to get enthusiastic about him too - at least I did
But the question is, was this really enthusiasm? Or was it just a …

Map of travel destination popular with backpackers
This is a map of Tully and district, in north Queensland, Australia, a town which was pretty popular with backpackers in the hippies in the 60’s era and still is. 
Working like a …

Backpacking with gun
It isn’t essential to carry a gun when you’re backpacking, it’s just insurance
I carried this rifle around with me when I was backpacking around Australia in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. It’s a  .22 rimfire Anschutz rifle, and …

Flight to Myanmar
`We flew with UBA, United Burma Airlines. This makes it seem like a conscious decision, as if we had plenty of choice, as if we’d thoroughly researched the world’s leading airlines for reliability and customer service and had finally …