Backpacking

[WolfOfTheWest]

Traveling has done me NO favours whatsoever. I beg of you all, please immortalize your travel tales here and make a young man a little happier to be away from his local for so long.

Anyway, I have been making my way across the high seas for little more than four months, and having met almost NO ONE to party with, I have all but lost my resistance to alcohol. Tonight I bought a six-pack and I can honestly say I am slightly on the way to tipsy. Yes, this from a modern drunkard. I hang my head in shame.

Anyway, tomorrow I leave New Zealand for Fiji, and here's hoping that all I have heard of their fire-water is true. Some serious drinking may well be afoot, ya'll.

[Mr Boozificator]

There is no shame in having a six-pack doing the job for you: rejoice, you have temporarily returned to that stage where a few beers are enough to bring you the golden buzz. Something precious time and money wise.
Now about travelling stories, well, where to start...

[BBoozer]

Well, I've did a lot of backpacking travels in my days. My ex-wife (before the redhead) and me used to carry along one of those spanish leather wine bags (the correct term escapes me, I'm sure boozy can help) filled with liquor, and every once in a while we took a serious nip from it. It can be considered a flask, but everybody found it cute and it was a great way to meet new people.

[Mr Boozificator]

Well, I've did a lot of backpacking travels in my days. My ex-wife (before the redhead) and me used to carry along one of those spanish leather wine bags (the correct term escapes me, I'm sure boozy can help) filled with liquor, and every once in a while we took a serious nip from it. It can be considered a flask, but everybody found it cute and it was a great way to meet new people.

It's a "bourrache" in french or "borracha" in spanish. Which is funny because it also means female drunkard.

[Wingman]

have you tried looking in bars?

[WolfOfTheWest]

have you tried looking in bars?

Tried a few bars in Thailand and Cambodia which were all pretty weird because even in the regular bars (ie, not clubs or strip joints) you constantly have local woman asking if "you want some boom-boom? You want some sex?" But over here (Australia/New Zealand) bars are just too expensive. I've already had to cut down my year-long trip to four months because of a lack of funds!

[Miklo]

have you tried looking in bars?

you constantly have local woman asking if "you want some boom-boom? You want some sex?"

...and the problem with that is?

[BeerMakesMeSmart]

have you tried looking in bars?

you constantly have local woman asking if "you want some boom-boom? You want some sex?"

...and the problem with that is?

It ain't free.

I've already had to cut down my year-long trip to four months because of a lack of funds!

Did the dingo eat your money?

[Miklo]

Nothing in life is free.

[coqui_chris]

quote="Wingman"]have you tried looking in bars?/quote] you constantly have local woman asking if "you want some boom-boom? You want some sex?"

...and the problem with that is?

It ain't free.

As opposed to sex that you don't have to pay for ................................................?

[crickets]

[Smatter Noguts]

And in Thailand, chances are like 1 out of 3 that it's ladyboy boom-boom.

[Jiggers McCoy]

The wife (not a redhead, but drinks and fucks like one) and I went backpacking in Europe 2 years ago. We found a lot of people to party with, the key is to find places where the locals drink, not where tourists go.

Alternatively, and I know it sounds lame, but some hostels do organized pub crawls. They're actually pretty fun and you'll meet fellow drunks and be exposed to bars you might not have found on your own.

[WolfOfTheWest]

Thankfully Fiji is proving quite different. It's sweltering hot, rum is cheap as balls, and there's a dude selling fruit at the market who also has a trunk-full of weed in his car. It's magical.

By the way, for anyone who has never been here, Fiji doesn't feel like it's ever managed to claw it's way out of the 80's. And I can't imagine why it would want to.

[tomodon]

Sounds good Westy - keep the updates coming man! Always good to hear of Drunkard travels so hope you enjoy the rest of your trip...

[Mr Boozificator]

Sounds good Westy - keep the updates coming man! Always good to hear of Drunkard travels so hope you enjoy the rest of your trip...

I know I've said that a million times, but I am really willing to pay you a visit in Ireland this summer: I'm going to be on holliday for a month in between the 29th of July and the 20th of August, so if you're available for a week-end during that period, just let me know and I'll drag my ass to the closest airport.