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Looks like this thread is a bit in-active however I just wanted to say that any of my numerous yearly trips to Europe and Asia are all as backpackers and hostelling. I will be Lisbon and Brussels doing the same this June 2004 (EURO 2004)....hope to see some of you there.
Also a backpacker. I stay in hostels almost everywhere I go. There's no reason not to when you're rarely in your room anyway. And when you travel off-season, you can usually have an entire room (or even dorm) for you and your companion(s).
Good times. http://www.nonrev.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
Even though this thread is fairly inactive I'll just say that I'll be hostelling in Bangkok in late November for 2 weeks. If any backpackers from this site will be there--let's have a drink!
Here are two other sites I write for:
<a href="http://www.chatarea.com/backpackers" target="_blank">http://www.chatarea.com/backpackers</A>
<a href="http://www.eurotrip.com" target="_blank">http://www.eurotrip.com</A> (nothing to do with that stupid movie)
I am definatly a back packer and I live for cheap. I found I can travel up to two weeks so far with only my small school back pack. (you just have to know what to pack and more importantly, what to leave behind). As for cheap, I try for free as much as possible, so I am a couchsurfer. What's that? Well, you basically spend the night free at a hosts house (although sometimes you get the floor with a blanket instead of a couch). Maybe someday you will open your house for a fellow traveler, maybe you will buy your host a drink or bring a bottle of wine, or make a dinner that they have never had before. My host made me dinner and since it was in Scotland, he made haggis, neaps, and taters. I loved it. So don't be shy, go check out the couchsurfing web site and hey look me up too, I love meeting new people. <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.com" target="_blank">http://www.couchsurfing.com</A> my screen name is the same and I am under denmark since I am living here for a year and back packing all over Europe.