11/10 The Backpacking Experience

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The Backpacking Experience
Are You Ready For The Time Of Your Life?
Are you ready to make the move and take off on the time of your life? The right attitude and a little preparation is all it takes to take off and start your travel adventure.
It's part of human nature that we thrive on taking risks, stepping out of our comfort zones and trying new experiences, either risky or playful ones, but as long as we have fun each day, and embrace the challenges that greet us each day, the door for opportunity is always wide open. Even if sometimes, it may not be the typical relaxing vacation or the entertainingly luxurious relaxation, but there's always that particular inkling in one's personality to take on something new and exciting and embrace the new experiences that we come across along the way. This is the fundamental of what traveling and backpacking is about.
Backpacking is more of a perk in one's active, wild, and venturesome side of the person. It calls for a traveling adventure like no other. Roughing it and forging your own destiny is not the usual travel trip that most vacationers take, it's more of a feeling of fulfillment and contentment after experiencing the backpacking lifestyle.
When you're traveling around new lands, whether it be by yourself or with others, it's not necessarily about where you're going, it's the adventure you'll have in getting there. The people you meet, the sights you'll see, and the personal development of making the most out of each day is what backpacking is all about, not being able to list 20 places you've visited. Backpacking involves nature, environment, animals, flora and fauna, wilderness, lands, mountains, and more. It's not the usual family vacations or group trips that you'll be housed in nice and comfortable hotels with everyone at your beck and call to serve you of your little needs and demands. It's all about getting to know nature, culture and sharing experiences with others you'll meet along the way. The success of backpacking trips is not on how well and beautiful you dressed-up or the niceties you've experienced, but it's more of your surroundings and the wonderful satisfaction you've felt during and after such adventure.
With anything in life, you get out of backpacking what you put in, if you go into your adventure with a positive, open mind, you're bound to have the time of your life. It's for the young ones, professional or expert backpackers, adventurous and willing individuals, and others who are physically capable to do so. It is important that one has the stamina and the energy to cope with the rigorous activities of backpacking because it involves strength to carry the backpacks and supplies needed, it needs the skills to survive the wild, unexpected, and natural state of the environment, and the energy to last the whole trip with minimum luxuries and necessities.
Deciding on where to go is the first step. Get in touch with others who have traveled the world, read up on different countries, and GET INTO IT!

Discussion Questions
Session One
1. hat does it take to start your own backpacking adventure? How would you prepare?
2. Share with everyone your most memorable trip.
3. Have you encountered any unusual or unexpected things during your travels?

Session Two
1. Have you ever gone on backpacking trip? Would you like to plan one?
2. If you had only 2,0000nt (plane ticket to destination not included) how would you plan your backpacking trip (place, duration, what you would do on the trip)?
3. Where would you like to visit the most?