Backpackertime

We have been travelling for over a month now and I thought it might be fun to tell you a few things we have discovered when backpacking, which are very...backpackery.

-You get mentally attached to your backpack. It is the only thing that is constant in your life except for your travelcompanion but you get sick of the same face everyday eventually. Your backpack is your life and the memorycard of your camera is the most valuable thing you have.

-Never assume you can put toiletpaper in the toilet. We learned that the hard way in Cuba. (Sorry Raoul) you shouldn't even assume you can do everything you might need to do. Very tiny pipes.

-You will have no clue what time, date and day it is. The only thing you maybe know is that you need to check out tomorrow, but you can postpone that...

-Choices are way too difficult to make. Should you stay in your hammock and read your new book you traded with some other backpacker, or should you go horsebackriding/hiking/surfing/drinking/skydiving? Tough life.

-Airconditioning is holy.

-It is CRAZY EXCITING to meet someone from your own country (or countries in my case) you finally get the chance to bond about ostehøvler and kjøttkaker! (Not that you will actually do that)

-You don't have enough time, and everybody will feel the need to tell you that.

-We are "sooo young. Omg you have the rest of your life to travel. Gaaahd I wish I still had that much time left"            -Every backpacker over 25

-You fall in love with the places you never planned to visit and probably have never even heard of.  (Viñales, huacachina, puerto iguaçu, florianapolis. To mention some.)

-Privacy does not excist while living in dorms. Other people WILL see your dirty underwear, your charming and elegant way of climbing up a bunkbed without a ladder or see your sleepingface. (You will also see all of that from them)

-You wish you knew some Spanish so that maybe people would stop shouting in spanish at you, the same thing over and over again when you don't understand them.

-You forget how stupid rain is. (Thanks for reminding us Rio....)

-It gives a claustraphobic feeling to put on long pants again