Confessions of a Seasoned Backpacker: Overcoming Your Pre-Trip Fears [Flashback]

Posted by Mike Richard on November 1, 2008
Filed under: Flashback, Sidelines

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Fear of the unknown is natural, even exciting, and few things in life provide the jitters of an extended trip away from home. One year ago today, Amanda Kendle shared some of her fears and tips for overcoming them in Confessions of a Seasoned Backpacker: Overcoming Your Pre-Trip Fears.

Her conclusion?

Even in a culture far removed from your own, people are people, food is food, a bed is a bed. In short: the world ain’t Mars.

Check out the full post and share your own tips for overcoming pre-trip jitters here.

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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