The Runaway Guides

How To Travel Without A Plan
I love arriving in a completely foreign country without preparation or a plan. The uncertainty is exhilarating and the sense [...]

How To Become A Pirate
Among the prospective life paths I envisioned as a child, becoming a pirate ranked right up there with Indiana Jones, [...]

How to Go Urban Camping
At first thought, urban camping sounds somewhat alluring. You envision the sweet warm glow of the city lights, the soothing [...]

What Really Is Deja Vu?
We have all experienced Deja Vu. Those times when you’re on the pot and you turn your head just so [...]

How To Avoid Traveler's Diarrhea: Lessons Learned
Diarrhea, the squirts, the runs, geri, splitskas, layseh mogen, or anal leakage; what ever you call it, it rarely makes [...]

The Secret to Learning Languages
English has become the language of commerce throughout the world. As a result, you can generally find at least a [...]

How To Run Away From Home & Travel The World
*The Following guide is intended for real aspiring runaways and less oriented towards the budget backpacker. My decision to run away [...]

Relax Or Volunteer At A Hostel In The Sky
The light of the early morning trickles through the canopy of the jungle. The leaves whisper under a cool spring [...]

Khat: The Adderall Of East Africa
You’ll never believe it, but you can actually find free Adderall in East Africa. Not only that, they are more [...]

The Most Beautiful Women In The World
There is a lot of debate amongst men over where the most beautiful women in the world are. Some guys [...]

Visit The Pyramids For Cheaper Than You Think
We’ve all seen them in pictures or on our 3D Hi-Def Tv’s, but there’s nothing like seeing them in true [...]

The Hookah High: Everything You Need To Know
The first time I smoked the Hookah was in Istanbul, Turkey. I had been wandering the cobblestone streets by the [...]

How To Jump A Border
First things first, let me just say that jumping a border is exceptionally dangerous and not to mention downright illegal. [...]

How To Go Volcano Boarding! Everything You Need To Know
After an hour hike we make it to the very top of the 2,000 ft volcano known as Cerro Negro. [...]

How To Pack For Any Adventure
When packing for a backpacking adventure, it’s tempting to bring as much as you can carry. Understandably, you want be [...]

How To Fly For Cheap
Your plane ticket is probably the largest investment you will make for your backpacking adventure. Today, after 9/11 and the financial [...]

How to Change Money on the Black Market
When a countries currency is overvalued, it leads to a much lower exchange rate for the foreign buyer. For example, [...]

Hangover Cures From Around The World
It’s the butt crack of dawn, an ungodly hour of the early light when you suddenly awake from a deep [...]

How To Work On A Luxury Yacht
There are few jobs as ideal for the long-term budget backpacker or runaway than working aboard a private luxury yacht. [...]

How To Pick Your Backpack
Your backpack is unquestionably the most important piece of equipment you will need for your backpacking adventure. Sometimes it will [...]

Kinky Japan
Though you wouldn’t think it, Japan has one of the most innovative and exceptionally kinky sex cultures. From pornographic cartoons [...]

Do You Really Need Travel Insurance?
I’m an optimist. I hardly ever think of buying travel insurance before an adventure. It’s expensive and chances are I won’t [...]

How To Haggle Like a Pro
Few feelings are worse as a budget backpacker than knowing that you’ve just been ripped off. You feel cheated, outwitted, [...]

The Truth About Travel Advisories
At current, over 30 countries reside on the US state departments travel advisory and warnings list. Such countries include Syria, [...]

Go Rafting In Costa Rica!
Rafting is much more than simply floating down a treacherous river in an inflatable boat that looks like it’s ready [...]

European Music Festival Guide
European summer festivals are epic. They are arguably the largest, longest, most drug and sex filled, multi-cultural parties in the [...]

The Coolest Hostel in Cairo
There’s no city like Cairo. No city where the sugar cane juice is always on tap. Where Shawma, Koshary, Fried [...]

Pros and Cons of Traveling Alone
Many first time backpackers are often concerned about traveling solo. I receive countless apprehensive emails on the subject. Girls are [...]

El Salvadorian Surf Retreat for 300$/month
Among Central America’s right breaks, it has one of the longest and most consistant. The warmth of the water is [...]

The Best Country For First Time Budget Backpackers
You’re dead set on running away and backpacking the world. You’ve found the courage, you’ve saved up enough money, and [...]

A Guide To Hitchhiking
While some of you have already done a fair share of hitchhiking, most of you may think such means of [...]

How To Be Successful In Blogging & In Life
Over the last couple of months, I have been in my basement working night and day towards the success of [...]

Discover Pura Vida In Pavones, Costa Rica
This place is the Pura Vida spirit. It sings with life from every direction. On one side, the calls of [...]

Secluded Thai Beach Retreat
Envision that exotic island paradise you’ve seen in magazines and dreams. You’re lounging in a hammock in a beautiful bungalow [...]

Runaway Backpacker Jobs
Most people believe that in order to work abroad, one must first obtain an expensive work visa. While this is [...]

How To Jump Trains
Train Jumping is an art requiring many months of practice. As a self proclaimed master in the art of train [...]

How To Eat Cheap Around The World
If you want to learn how to eat cheap or even free while traveling or even at home, you must [...]

Overcoming Your Travel Anxiety
Traveling is my passion and I can think of nothing more liberating and exciting than hitting the open road. Nothing [...]

Live In The South Of France and Get Paid 500 Euro/Month
If you think that the spectacular South Of France is limited to the likes of celebrities and the super rich, [...]

How To Start A Travel Blog & Make Real Money
Can you actually make money with a sports, fashion, food, travel or any kind of blog? Most people either don’t believe it’s [...]

Runaway Travel Tech
Although in the past I never traveled with technology, now that I am a travel blogger, I can’t travel without [...]

A Psychedelic Retreat In The Foot Hills Of The Himalayas
Of the few who ever visit, most are drawn by the unique wild life. There are elephants, rhinoceros, crocodiles, oxen, [...]

Business For Backpackers: Drugs, Jewelry, & Fruit
One of the greatest things about backpacking around the world is that it grants one perspective. It is this perspective, [...]

How To Build A Fort
If you’re on the road, strapped for cash, and in need of shelter, building a fort is one of your [...]

Work In Exchange For Passage
With only 600$ to my name, I needed to figure out a way to cross the Darien gap on the [...]

Paradise On Earth: Northern Norway
In the winter, the island is bleak, frigid and dark. Aside from the moon, the stars, the northern lights, and [...]

How To Protest Around The World
I look up. A volley of cans are hurling in a high arc through the smoke filled air. I immediately [...]

How To Make Romance On The Road
Many a backpackers dream is to head off to a foreign land and taste the local sashimi. However, if you [...]

How To Convince Your Parents To Let You Run Away & Travel The World
If you want to hit the open road and explore the world but have douche bags for… I mean parents [...]