"All You Need..."

I remember sitting around with my friends one day, in my "regular life" (that's what I refer a 9-5 existence as. Being "normal", having a routine. Regular. That time before travel. Anyway...) talking about the things girls talk about (when the topics are not "boys" or "sex"). We were talking about fears. You know - some people are afraid of heights, others of spiders, and me... I couldn't think of what I was afraid of. Loneliness? no. Being lost? no.

I started up this discussion asking "wouldn't it be amazing, if you got blindfolded and put on a plane and dropped off somewhere you've never been before, where you didn't know the language, with only $50? That would be awesome!!!" None of my friends felt the same way.

Those friends are still living in their fancy houses, working their 9-5's. Me? Well. I have $2.32 in my account right now. Nothing in savings. Negative, oh I don't know $9,000 on my credit card? (I'm afraid to look). But I am alive, and way happier than I was in my "regular life".

The title of the blog is Backpack n Flask.

The premise is, is that's all you need in life to be happy. A roof over your head and some food doesn't hurt, but the one amazing thing you learn while traveling is that people are beyond awesome. There are such wonderful characters out there, that I would have never met had I had more than $2.32 to my name.
(written of my situation, current day, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)