Nine Things NOT to Pack for Your RTW
1: Luggage Locks Worried about valuables being nicked while you sleep? Why not stick a small metal sign on your pack saying: “Expensive stuff in...
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Fifteen and a Half Steps to (Back)Packing Mastery
1: Heavy Stuff High, Light Stuff Low Thanks to the high-school physics principle of moment, things at the bottom of your pack feel heavier than...
On Books
Back in Udomxay, the construction town in northern Laos where our two-day odyssey from Vietnam reached a natural close, we met a crazy Canadian chap...
In Praise of Crap Towns
Here we are, in Savannakhet, Laos, the third-largest city in the People’s Republic, as all 120,000 inhabitants would, I’m sure, be pleased to tell you,...
Mains Electricity: a Good Thing, Clearly…
So the theoretical immediacy of this medium has been slightly kiboshed by the near-total absence of electricity and mobile reception in our first tropical idyll,...
On Binbags and Plastic Crap
Just under 48 hours to go to takeoff, and I am ploughing through the leisurely accumulations of two lives. Endless bits of plastic to be...