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It's been ten years since we went on this backpacking trip through Italy. It really feels like yesterday. I packed way too much stuff and remember squeezing toothpaste out on the first night in an attempt to lighten my pack weight. I brought so much film with me too, and a dinky point and shoot camera that worked wonderfully. I knew it inside and out. I've loved to travel ever since.
What are favorite trips that you have made, far-off or near-to-home?
*photos by jenna
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...standing over the trash can dumping goods. a whole roll of duct tape. lotion. i left behind my favorite green cords for another lovely clothes-wearing stranger (hope they cherish them as much as i did). at least we had the good sense not to throw out our powdered laundry detergent in plastic baggies tied with rubber bands. no reason to be trekking around europe in filthy clothes.
point and shoot or not...those were some good pictures :) love that one of venice in a hazy fog. fun, thanks.
My favourite trip is an excursion to Greece during one of my last years in school. As we were travelling on a low budget, it is needless to say that this trip was an adventure in more than one way. I was stunned by the country as every stone seemed to tell stories from the past - stories of kings and heroes that I had read in old books borrowed from my grandma. Besides I found a bunch of great friends that brighten my days even after all this time.
I hope to visit Italy this year - I even started an Italian course last week to be prepared. Venice will definitely be on my route.
...ripping the hardback covers off of my journal, to eventually buy a thin Green Walnut spiral one, (you had Blue Banana), and just way too many clothes. I learned so much from that trip packing-wise and have never made that mistake again! I can't believe we carried around our return tickets with us for 3 months. :)
wait, duct tape?
Stefanie ~ It sounds like Greece was wonderful! I haven't been there but would love to one day; to see those old stones and soak in the old stories. The sunshine on the buildings...
And of course you are going to have a wonderful time in Italy. :)
ha ha. yeah, for some reason i thought we might need duck tape along our travels but that was the first thing to go because it was a fresh role and awfully heavy as you can imagine! i'm amazed we never had our tickets, passport, etc. stolen...all the times we may have "forgoten" them back in the hostel or campground :)
I love your pictures.
My favorite place to go is Kelley's Island, Ohio. No, not very exciting. But its so small you can bike around the Island in a few hours. I guess thats what I love about it. The familiarity and smallness...the attitude my family (usually we go there as a big extended family included vacation) takes on when we are there...do whatever, take as much time as you want, enjoy.
This post along with your recent posts about trips you are planning for this summer are sure giving me travel envy.:) I have so many places I love for different reasons but tonight I am thinking of Curacao. Of floating for hours in the lagoon whether on my back staring at the clouds or flipping over to put on my mask and stare at the fish, of bronze busts embedded with coral markings, of driving around the island all day and discovering its rugged desertous beauty that seems so opposed to a tropical beach, of finding beach after beach full of sea glass, of breathtaking views where the water was so clear it did not look real that it could be holding up a boat, and the feeling that time was standing still for a few days.
Jenna ~ I do remember we had those money belts. I think we had hawk eyes against anything getting stolen. Like that French guy (Bruno?) who's tent we had to go into to get my alarm clock back. I kept expecting him to appear and threaten me with his mustache.
Leah ~ That sounds like a really fun place. I have never heard of it but now I'm curious! I'm going to go look it up.
Oh, Stephanie, it sounds so beautiful! Beaches full of sea glass...crystal clear insubstantial water...I can just see you there. xo
Oh I love these photos. It makes me long for my early twenties--- and early twenties wanderlust--- in a way I haven't in quite awhile. You captured Italy and summer and light and youth so well.
Oh, I was just blogging about memories, too, what a coincidence :)
I was backpacking many years ago too. I remember the one journey with my friend Simone the most, where we went to paris first, decided that it was too hot and strenuous to visit all the sights, so we stayed only one day and went further to Biarritz (North France) and then further to Portugal where we spent the most time in Lagos and then we went all the way back to Amsterdam and then back home. Maybe not the best route, but it was all spontaneous :) And I remember I felt so happy and good like never before :) I love the freedom of traveling, the most I enjoyed having not much with me, only the most important things.
I think one of my favorite trips abroad was to Thailand. Such beautiful architecture and yummy food! But my travel dream is Italy!!! Looking at your pictures just made me get so excited for the day -- someday! -- I get to go too!
the photographs are amazing! what kind of camera was this?
oh yeah, Bruno!....we ran into quite a lot of characters over there
Like Dots.
b ~ just a little generic point and shoot; probably from the drugstore or something. My rules for it were: shoot in lots of sunlight, fill the screen, but don't get too close cause the foreground wouldn't be in focus.
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