The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth. — Horace Kephart Copy Share Image
Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money. — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.” — Cindy Ross Copy Share Image
We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Becoming a protestor has become the alternative to spending a year backpacking thru Europe after undergrad. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am very spoilt and want my travel to be smooth and peaceful. I don't like to rough it out, and I… — Sushmita Sen Copy Share Image
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Sunrise over the mountain-forest was gorgeous - Aurora brushing out her golden tresses with a comb of dark-needled pine and bare-limbed oak.” — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Hookers in whore houses awaiting drunkards at dawn who can't get it up. Broken sprung beds. Sulking, sagging and stained. Foreplay forgotten.… — Harry Whitewolf Copy Share Image
When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six… — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
When you're camping somewhere, you're backpacking, you're in the woods, you have to be disciplined. You have to be able to take… — Josh Hart Copy Share Image
Try backpacking in Indonesia and taking boats between the islands, or catching a bus from Marrakech to Essaouira in the middle of… — Kris Marshall Copy Share Image
“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can… — Horace Kephart Copy Share Image
“Go to other countries. Not a typical backpacking tour. Planned tour means you will hang with Americans on bikes and flirt with… — Derrick Brown Copy Share Image
I was a little hippie on a world backpacking adventure, and suddenly I became a vampire princess. I still find it hard… — Lucy Fry Copy Share Image
Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I could have been kidnapped, but I also could have been backpacking to see the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater. — Annie Wersching Copy Share Image
“Hundred years war between England and France. The term ok comes from the tax collectors in England. They needed to know how… — Lost LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Why do people backpack through Europe, you never hear about people backpacking through america. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I travel, people say ‘Yet another place in this world’. But I see ‘Another world inside every place I go” — Vivek Thangaswamy Copy Share Image
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I couldn't afford a trip to Europe after college so I went backpacking through an IKEA to find myself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A 22-year-old woman who spends six months backpacking across Asia sends a powerful message about her curiosity, open-mindedness, and even courage. Similar… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
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