by SilverBackpacker | The Silver Backpack, Thoughts
Truth Seeking Journey “Don’t wait around. Don’t get old and make excuses. Save a couple thousand dollars. Sell your car. Get a world atlas. Start looking at every page and tell yourself that you can go there. You can live there. Are there sacrifices to be made? Of...
by SilverBackpacker | Philippines, The Silver Backpack, Thoughts
The Joy of Slow Travel Sittin’ in the mornin’ sun I’ll be sittin’ when the evenin’ come Watching the ships roll in And then I watch ’em roll away again, yeah I’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay Watching the tide roll away...
by SilverBackpacker | The Silver Backpack, Thoughts
Lucky Dip Travel Have you ever played spin the globe or pin the tail on the map? Where did your finger or pin land? When i was growing up I became fascinated about adventure. At first I used to spend my pocket money on Ladybird books telling stories of the journeys...
by SilverBackpacker | Eat, Thoughts
Why I eat local For me, eating local is part of the fun and adventure of travelling. Some of my most memorable travel experiences are having meals in the most remote places, or just eating street food fresh from a wagon in Bangkok. If you spend a few days in one place...
by SilverBackpacker | Thoughts
Follow Your Own Path The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,And having...
by SilverBackpacker | Thoughts
Travel is Happiness The poem is not by Neruda, as is commonly and frequently claimed on the many sites where the poem appears. This beautiful poem belongs to Martha Medeiros, a brazilian writer, author of several books and columnist for the newspaper “Zero Hora”, in...
