Backpacking

3boysnjmom
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:25:49 +0000

Following college graduation, S and friend went backpacking in Eastern Europe and Europe this summer. Eurorail was too much $ so they often took 2-3 day combo train/bus rides from one place to another. They also arranged formal “ride shares” from one country to another. They stayed in hostels and learned that it helped to make hostel reservations in advance. They also had several mishaps which they worked out (son has diabetes and left/forgot monitor at home so ended up in Italian hospital; ATM machine in Greece ate his card). All in all, it was a successful trip and the two boys are still friends. We were a bit apprehensive and because of his diabetes insisted that he have a cell phone which proved useful for medical problems. H & I went to Europe several times when we were in college and trips were memorable.