New Contest – Win a free RIBZ Front Pack

My backpacking website Startbackpacking.com and RIBZ USA are giving away one of their unique “Front Packs”! All you have to do to win is subscribe to the RSS via email to receive new articles from Startbackpacking.com before March 15, 2010.  No, you will never get SPAM, just a link when I make updates on the [...]

Interview: 77 Years Old and Still Vagabonding

One of the best parts of running this vagabonding blog is the opportunity to meet new and interesting people. At least weekly I receive emails from female readers asking about how safe it is to travel alone, or asking my advice about where to travel as a woman. I was wondering how to best answer [...]

Haiti and Corporate Greed

It isn’t too often that I produce a rant but after recently coming across some startling data I was too appalled to sit here and do nothing. Anyone familiar with my website knows that there is no love lost between me and cubicles, or giant corporations for that matter.  After working in one for 8 [...]