A Checklist For Travellers

A Step-by-Step Guide to Complete Before You Jet Off Around the World

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The other day my friend asked me,

“Vicky, how many pairs of shoes shall I take travelling with me?”

She’s just about to take off on her big adventure around the world. First stop is Australia, where she is working for a few months or so, before heading onto South-East Asia. She’s currently in the panic mode, the sort of confused excitement and nerves that you start to feel the week before you jet off.

So, I thought I’d put together a checklist out there for all of you nervous pre-travelling people out there, staring worriedly at your empty backpack perched next to your mountainous pile of clothes. Follow this through and you will be fully prepared for your adventure across the globe. It won’t be the Bible to your travels I’m afraid but it will set you off on a good start.

A FLASHpacking Story Around Ecuador

FLASHPACKING

Sunset over the Amazon, South America

Sitting in a Hostel in Ecuador, some twenty meters from the gaping Laguna Quilotoa, my two travel companions and I met a girl. She was in her thirties, an American, and had been hiking the Quilotoa Loop for the past four days. Jess was her name, and serious backpacking was her game. 

Why YOU should travel THE WORLD!

Why should you take the daring decision and decide to go travelling? Why should you spend your precious savings or hard-earned cash  for University, life, or a house deposit in unknown foreign destinations? Why should you leave the comfort of your parent’s house with free food, hot showers and comfy beds to travel in your gap year? Why take that chance and leave everything behind? The important clichéd question is, why not?