You heard it here from Tina's Hostel first. The new millennium backpacker travels with a lap-top!
As has become the norm, there were quite a few computers in use in the yard today, blogging or catching up on email. Wireless Internet at the hostel attracts the new backpacker & keeps me busy. You can overhear stock trades taking place on those internet head phones while the trader lies in a hammock with his lap-top under the almond tree stareing out at the reef, appearing to be completely cookoo talking to himself.Most arrive with technology crammed luggage by also carrying an MP3 player, an I-Pod, digital camera & International roam telephone to name a few.
Gone are the days a decade ago when the backpacker would arrive at my hostel with 2 sets of rotting clothes, a tent, little metal pots, pans with dents & burnt marks, a well worn hammock and sometimes a machete or heavy duty switch-blade.
My how survival tools have changed on the road!
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