The ‘Backpack‘ section is one of those ultra clever metaphors whereby it merely holds all the information I have gathered and would like to share with you- but has little relevance to my actual backpack. You didn’t really think? Oh, you did? Sorry…
Along the right hand side of the site is a plethora of links to whet your appetite, so grab yourself a Beerlao and have a flick through where I’m going, where I’m definitely going and where I originally thought I was going. As with all good ‘backpacks’ this will be an ever-evolving environment, as I chuck worn crap out and replace it with shiny new things I’ve bartered for along The Trail.
Trail of Ant’s is meant as more than just a travellers slum, it’s intended to act as the peek hole upon a grimy hostel window, for others to peer in and see the sorts of people that decide to jack it all in - before maybe heading off into the sunset clutching a Beerlao of their own.
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Food for Thought
Travelling’s definitely not for everyone. But neither is a career. I have full on robot-chubby respect for those that dedicate their time and energy to professional careers. In fact, it was a deciding factor in my last relationship ‘Traveller vs Careerererer’. Travelling won. It’s a compulsion, for some it may even be destiny but for me it’s a way of finding balance in my life.
I simply can’t stay static too long or I lose all harmony; problems start to magnify, life seems too short, familiar faces make me claustrophobic, the good times become anticlimaxes and the bad times usually become the catalyst for planning to travel.
I was fortunate to be born into a life full of freedom and opportunity. I appreciate the very fact that I can sit here writing this. I realise the chance that I have been presented with, so travelling won’t just be a selfish jaunt around the world, it will be a homage to those that cannot do it. I’m doing it as much for those people, as I am for me. Top dogs tell me they’ll be “living their life through me” because “if they’d had the chance, they’d of done exactly the same”. Well the sad thing is, they probably have the chance and they’re not. Greed, is something that no traveller can carry. Hope, can be carried from person to person.
