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Okay, so now that you have a budget, an itinerary, and an idea of locations, now it is time to book it all. Of course, the earlier you book your tickets, the cheaper they are going to be.Book your tickets as early as possible!: When you know where you want to go, your first step should be financing the tickets needed to get where it is you want to be. Now there is more than one way to skin a cat.

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Okay. As stated before, some people like the idea of not planning your trip... and well, it is a good idea minus all of the associated risks involved. Now granted, some can get away with not spending as much time planning... depending on what time of year it is. But if you are young, adventurous, and ready to shake a leg and throw back some shots with other young, like minded people... you will

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So, word around the campfire is that you now want to backpack huh? Well, if you have been following the last fifteen of my posts, or if you have heard from a friend of a friend that it is the best damned thing since sliced bread well hey... its enough for me to want to tell you what you need to know, and just drop the facts on you like a ton of bricks. Backpacking through foreign countries has

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My eyes shot open to be greeted by birds chirping, my brother laughing, and my cousin screaming from the Video Games going on in the next room. The adventure was over, the language barrier had fallen, and now I was given the opportunity to speak about what I thought about the trip. It has been almost two weeks since I made my landing back into the United States. Things have changed but that has

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Before coming to Paris i was subjected to a flurry of comments, stories, and theories on what we should expect from those who resided in the city of lights. We arrived on the train at 9:30 in the morning (30 minutes late from the original ETA) and hit the ground running. Everything is different in paris and over the last few days i have come up with some observations and opinions about being in

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Leaving soothing, aurete hues on Las Ramblas (the barcelona boutique street with lots of bars and stores) the sun calmly set on Barcelona, slowly immersing the city in warm, summer night. It was a saturday and as John and I sat down over a good meal after some good budgeting earlier on in the trip. A batchelorette party was going on behind us, an on my other flank was the bachelor party we soon

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Patiently sitting in a large room with benches, chairs and screaming children running around making blowing up souds, boinks, zoinks, slams, bams, and other noises found in what I would soon call Hell´s Waitingroom. And It was. Amid the overabundance of gameboys, girls sitting patiently, boys playfighting and screaming, an older woman and an older man who I soon realized were the unfortunate

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Plans went wrong as we couldnt work out the six or so days between Melanie's house (we stopped there after judy's) and dusseldorf. At the last minute (Specifically, 4:00 yesterday morning) we decided to turn our travels towards nice, france, and buy our time out there. Things were moving at a fairly smothe rate until we realized that after hitting lyon, we were moving at 184km/h in the OPPOSITE

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The previous day we went to europa park (a european busch gardens pretty much) and the next day in comparison was rather boring... John and I worked on our itinerary for the next few days as we began to prepare to leave Judy's house, in two nights. We sat on the couch in the afternoon and worked out our plans for Paris, Baden-Bade, Heidelberg, Amsterdam, and Dusseldorf.Yelling... Lots of yelling.

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to sleep in the morning after... The first time since we were back in the states. Life, which all of a sudden turned into a rush at the start of June began slowing down. As it became more manageable, finally John and I could regain our bearings and replan our trip which went spiralling out of control in the days past. It was 3:00 in the evening. I hopped in the shower after john and after getting

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We arrived in horb at aroud 9:00 at night where a young woman with tan skin, wavy, dark hair and long legs waited there on the park bench. I looked at the face, and nothing registered immediately as I watched her sullen expression light up and immediately turn to greet me. It was judy. She looked so different but at the same time very much the same as we made our first embrace in almost a year or

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where 3 other weary travelers slept. “What?” I responded “Its light outside.” I recognized Johns voice after 30 seconds. I came to. “What time is it!?” I said while frantically putting on my clothes. An arm reached down and grabbed the alarm clock. “7:20… wait a minute. SHIT!” “Shit.” I opened the locker and frantically emptied it, putting random bits and pieces of electronics and

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most of its inhabitants clung to their last bits of sleep. The sun steadily rose, and as the temperature increased along with the elapsing time, the stench of body odor was eminent. It was time to go, however we could not leave. People got up and began to yawn as the sky turned from the beautiful shades of orange to washed out, gray of an overcast day. Unfortunately, it wasnt a good day for the

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We started off our day poorly by answering the wake up call and then choosing to sleep through it once more. Luckily, i woke up at 11:40... 20 minutes before checkout time, and after having dealt loosely with those who worked at the hotel, i am confident they wanted to turn out their pair of unwelcome backpackers who trudged through their automatic glass doors only the day before. During midday

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at around 9:00 at night while it was still light. This probably explains why the spaniards start everything really late. Jroge and made our ascension from the train steps and looked around the Mysterious, seductive city in the dead of night. The streets were narrow and paved with cobblestones like in the travel pictures. The Buildings, tall, rustic, and looming with their gargantuan arches and

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The sun shone through the left side of the airplane cabin at approximately 12:00 EST. Sitting 37,000 feet and dropping, the jet remained calmly nestled above the clouds as it prepared for its descent. One by one, each person arose from their slumber to be greeted by coffee and what they called a buttermilk bar (a bar which tastes like coffee cake, but without the crumbs). Pushing myself out of

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Loud Rings from the phone woke us up the first two times in our attempt to slumber for our upcoming days journey. John and I were two of the three "Madrid Flights" looking for refuge-three hots and a cot-in the lonely city."Here are your newly issued plane tickets, your hotel voucher, and meal vouchers redeemable anywhere except for fridays" the dark, bearded, heavily obese clerk said behind his

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We waited on our plane for what seemed like an infinite span of time. Excess seconds turned into minutes, excess minutes turning into hours, and so on and so on... By now, Jroge and i should be somewhere soaring over the Atlantic into a new day, however we find ourselves here. Somewhere in between now and then, we make loose discourse with the dredges of society who try to make their way home

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