Backpackers Stories

Collection of short and humorous stories about hikers and their experiences on the Appalachian Trail. This is a continuing work with new chapters and experiences, and characters being added all the time.

This Story is about an enthusiastic Indian backpacker who choosed Mauritius Island as his first international destination. This book will take you along his journey in an unknown country,tackling many obstacles of his one in a lifetime journey in the paradise of earth.Starting from the airport,this book will take you on a trip around the island with the indian nomad. You'll feel that you are in Mauritius mentally despite being physically at your origin location. The Character in this journey is purely a fictional character. This book is not meant to hurt anyone,any religion or any other entity. All pictures have been taken by the author himself. Even if the journey is a fictional one,you'll feel the atmosphere of all the destinations showcased in Mauritius-2020. I thank you! DETAILS ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Author:- Akhilesh Leelodharry. Nationality:- A Hindu Mauritian. A 17 years old boy,weak in Mathematics,an enthusiastic traveller who is making you to explore the way he wants his life to be through this book and a fictional character. Written in Simple English to promote Literature. Special thanks to my parents,teachers and friends,despite am writing this books without any soul knowing. First touch of this book:- 27th Of December 2020. I don't know when the book will be published, or if ever it will be so but I am writing this book with full of dedication and real devotion to my passion of travel. I would like to add that this book may has grammatical errors, as am not perfect,but the cotent of the story comes from a pure heart of an Enthusiastic Traveller.

In 2017 I embarked on a three month backpacking trip around Europe. Motivated by the many accounts of travel from within religion, I went to learn. But what I experienced was not what I was expecting. This was my first time leaving the UK since I was a child and my expectations of travel and Europe were wildly out of touch. I met more people in these three months than I had in the previous ten years and had many new experiences. I was naive and many of the people I met on my travels could tell just how naive I was. Overland by bus, train and ferry through 17 countries: England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Switzerland. To 35 locations: Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Prague, Krakow, Brno, Bratislava, Vienna, Budapest, Timisoara, Sibiu, Brasov, Bucharest, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Litochoro, Athens, Delphi, Naples, Rome, Venice, Milan and Lugano. It is an account of backpacking around Europe, both the best and worst of European backpacking hostels. Long bus journeys, hitch hiking and plenty of walking. I'm not proud of my behaviour or the events surrounding this three month period of my life, but I am proud to have forced myself to do it. I hope that my story will reach people who are in similar positions to what I found myself and to plant the seed of travel as a solution to those problems. Sometimes running away is the solution. It has also been several years since my backpacking trip and I find myself constantly trying to piece my memories together. Not always knowing what city or even country a memory occurred. I feel like my memories are deteriorating so I decided to document them before fall apart completely. I'm not a writer at all and I have tried to be as honest as possible, to my own downfall. I'm open to any advice about how I can improve it.

Luke Harris never understood loneliness, he had a great set of friends, a supportive family. Yet Loneliness haunted Eleanor Morgan, a girl that Luke never expected to befriend. From Australia to around the world Eleanor's loneliness turns into happiness. Cover from Pinterest

A fun, true, adventure story of the 5 months Fiona & Tod spent living in a small, remote village high up in the Himalayas of Nepal. They struggled with altitude sickness, severely reduced diet, and the occasional visit from wild tigers! A compulsive read, often humorous. Gap year coming up? Want to do some volunteering? Something completely different? Why not? They did.

In the spring of 2004 - after living in Tokyo, Japan, for over three years pursuing a career as a freelance musician - science fiction and fantasy author Domenico Italo Composto-Hart set off on a half-year backpacking journey through the lands of East and Southeast Asia, Siberia, Central Russia, the Baltic states, the Nordic countries, and Eastern and Western Europe. Traveling by foot, bus, train, and boat - and seeing the world through the analytical lens of anthropology, archaeology, and economics - Domenico documents, researches, and deciphers the developing nations he encounters as they rise through the turbulence of unregulated Western capitalism and globalization. Travels in the Land of Hunger is the author's reflective account of the dark, long-lasting impact of Western colonialism and imperialism, the Vietnam War, the Khmer Rouge regime, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the sex tourism and sex trafficking industries in Southeast and East Asia. It is also a narrative of finding exotic beauty, inspiration, inner strength, and unexpected love.

After the spontaneous, adventurous, and wildly popular Aunt Jemmy passes away, seven of her dearest nieces and nephews are called to attorney Jonathan Schmitt's office. He has discovered a will, and its' contents are unusual to say the least... Sent across the globe on an adventure none will forget, seven teenagers discover themselves, and strive to fulfill their aunt's dying wish in an incredibly unique fashion.