When are you too old to be a backpacker ?
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When are you too old to be a backpacker ?
Nice story about a guy who's 87 and getting ready to spend 3 months backpacking around SEA. I guess you're as old as you feel, so good for him. I hope he has decent insurance though.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/uncle ... 70608.htmlMellin, 87, estimates he’s spent 10 years traveling outside of the United States since then. He’s been to more than 60 countries, traveling cheap, with a backpack no bigger than a schoolboy’s, usually for months at a time. Sometimes those trips stretched on for years.
On Wednesday, Mellin is embarking on his next — and potentially last — trek, a three-month adventure in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos, again with his burnt-orange backpack. He doesn’t care if anyone thinks he’s too old.
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I don't think ive ever met a genuine American backpacker on any of my journeys to India, Africa, Central America etcAnchor Moy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:59 pm Nice story about a guy who's 87 and getting ready to spend 3 months backpacking around SEA. I guess you're as old as you feel, so good for him. I hope he has decent insurance though.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/uncle ... 70608.htmlMellin, 87, estimates he’s spent 10 years traveling outside of the United States since then. He’s been to more than 60 countries, traveling cheap, with a backpack no bigger than a schoolboy’s, usually for months at a time. Sometimes those trips stretched on for years.
On Wednesday, Mellin is embarking on his next — and potentially last — trek, a three-month adventure in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos, again with his burnt-orange backpack. He doesn’t care if anyone thinks he’s too old.
Eveytime I met one, eventually they all said " I've just got to pop to the Post office to pick up my monthly check from my parents". They also always seemed to want to rent a private room, whilst everyone else was happy sleeping on the beach.
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It sounds like he's an interesting enough guy, but I'm disappointed to see he has a GoFundMe thing going.
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Yeah. Fuck begpackers no matter what their age!John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:42 pm ...I'm disappointed to see he has a GoFundMe thing going.
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Unrelated, you might not want to look at our Facebook pages for a while...John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:42 pm It sounds like he's an interesting enough guy, but I'm disappointed to see he has a GoFundMe thing going.
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Re: When are you too old to be a backpacker ?
Good on him!!! to travel is to stay youngjuansweetpotato wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:12 pmI don't think ive ever met a genuine American backpacker on any of my journeys to India, Africa, Central America etcAnchor Moy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:59 pm Nice story about a guy who's 87 and getting ready to spend 3 months backpacking around SEA. I guess you're as old as you feel, so good for him. I hope he has decent insurance though.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/uncle ... 70608.htmlMellin, 87, estimates he’s spent 10 years traveling outside of the United States since then. He’s been to more than 60 countries, traveling cheap, with a backpack no bigger than a schoolboy’s, usually for months at a time. Sometimes those trips stretched on for years.
On Wednesday, Mellin is embarking on his next — and potentially last — trek, a three-month adventure in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos, again with his burnt-orange backpack. He doesn’t care if anyone thinks he’s too old.
Eveytime I met one, eventually they all said " I've just got to pop to the Post office to pick up my monthly check from my parents". They also always seemed to want to rent a private room, whilst everyone else was happy sleeping on the beach.
I met plenty of them from the early 70's thru the late 80's, when i stopped backpacking as much.
Did 3 overland trips;( Amsterdam- Ktm-Amsterdam-Ktm), SF-Panama, various trips thru Europe, Down the nile, the middle east, north Africa, Tibet and all the way down to Australia
what makes a backpacker?, am sure this has been talked about before...
MY take; someone that travels to travel without a particular destination in mind and willing to sleep rough if need be
Its the going not the arriving
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Agree, I first went "travelling" in 1970, grape picking in france. I got the bug from that and then went on to hitckhike around the USA and Canada, ending up in Santa Cruz California where i would like to be now if i had the money. I then went on to hitchike from London to Goa, came back laid a few bricks and went again. Since then i have been all over OZ and fair bit of Europe. Now i just go to India every winter.
I don,t know when the term "backpacking" became poular, i always thought of myself as a traveller. You are never to old to travel/go on holiday/backpack/wander/take a trip
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I don,t know when the term "backpacking" became poular, i always thought of myself as a traveller. You are never to old to travel/go on holiday/backpack/wander/take a trip
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I spend about half the year being a backpacker, and the other half of the year laughing at backpackers. I'll be 40 very soon. 40's the new 20, right?
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General Mackevili wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 2:56 pm I spend about half the year being a backpacker, and the other half of the year laughing at backpackers. I'll be 40 very soon. 40's the new 20, right?
Wow, 40 , that's old to be a backpacker.,,,, Why not upgrade and become a flash-packer ?
https://cambodiaexpatsonline.com/topic68 ... ackpacking
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At 87 I would imagine my backpack would contain mostly incontinence pants!
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