Comments on: 47 Signs You Might Be a Backpacker

By: NomadicMatt

NomadicMatt — Thu, 23 May 2019 09:44:08 +0000

In reply to Fausto. It sure is!

By: Fausto

Fausto — Wed, 22 May 2019 20:46:26 +0000

I am 47 years old and I am still as backpacker as in my first outing at 20.
The backpack is an attitude!!

By: Isabella

Isabella — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 03:39:46 +0000

I am a total failure as a backpacker LOL. But I love all the points you raised and I am happy to notice I can embrace some of them… just a few 🙂 Like

You don’t know what to write down when asked for your permanent address.

You don’t know what to write down for occupation on the customs forms.

:)))

great reading, as usual!
cheers Matt and team 🙂 and happy travels!

By: Ani

Ani — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:30:58 +0000

I can confess I could recognize a number of signs out of 47. A funny stuff. I am not a typical backpacker though, but I like backpacks and chatting with backpackers I meet during my travels. In a way, all travelers are sort of backpackers…

By: Baldric

Baldric — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:57:21 +0000

Thank you for making me feel good about wearing the same shirt for a week(s for a time). Everyone loves my travel photos, but wonder why I’m always in the same shirt. It’s because I’m a backpacker!

By: Cheli

Cheli — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 01:26:20 +0000

These are so accurate!

Not only do you ask someone where they’re from before asking their name, but you also ask “where have you been”, “where are you going” and “how long have you been traveling”?

And I’ll add that you find yourself doing things that you wouldn’t even dream of doing back at home. Like taking a spontaneous 2 day/1 night tour on the back of a motorcycle with a guy you literally met five minutes earlier when he approached you on the street, but he seems nice and trustworthy. Then it ends up being one of the best experiences you had in Vietnam.

Yup, I’m a backpacker and love it!

By: Joshua Lance

Joshua Lance — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:27:59 +0000

I currently live in South Korea and itching to travel and do my art again. I would love to combine my passions and would love to hear some brainstorming ideas how to make it happen. Also, where’s a good place where other painters/artists reside? Thanks.

By: Kevin Bates

Kevin Bates — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:44:00 +0000

from Muca: “- Showing off…. i don’t care how many passport stamps you have, how good you are at bargaining or how much you hate local people. Interesting stories are always welcome, but the stories I often hear, annoy me and bore me to death.”

yes ! “travel bores” are still bores..some can talk about NOTHING but their travels & are so into one-upmanship trying to list obscure places others in the group haven’t been to..

“What? you’ve never woken up on the side of Mt. Kilimanjaro with a goat in your sleeping bag? you haven’t LIVED” lol

By: Laussie

Laussie — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:06:08 +0000

I can’t tick these off yet but if I really tried I would probably become one of those backpackers trying to one-up everyone else as to how many of these I can tick off… I think this list is somewhat location-specific and different backpackers would need to do things differently depending on where they are. Such as it being perfectly acceptable for a backpacker in a snowy area not having a flip-flop tan.

But one I’d argue is done all over the world is that you know you are a backpacker if you are constantly reorganising your pack because you can never get it quite right!

By: Adrienne Morton

Adrienne Morton — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:44:02 +0000

I am SOO laughing, and SO back in time reading this. I agree that “You always, always have a jar of peanut butter in your backpack” has got to go on the list. That is me.
Please add this: “You hook up with guys/girls that sleep in hotels just so you can sleep in a bed”. (Also me)
See you at the next hostel….