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Hi Andy-I do a lot of travelling and purchased some tickets thru STA tarvel earlier, you are right they do have occassional good deals, but i have been able to find soem last minute deals from Hotwire, and also a site called - www.Biztraveldeals, they had a deal to london for about 230 round trip. Anyways, I like your site and appreciate all your ideas and Travel experiences. Keep up the great work !!

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Hi Andy, I was looking for your email but I couldn't find it so I'll just post here.I've been viewing your site for a while now, and your name came up in a conversation I was having last week with Dick Corner, the American guy living in Guano. I think you stayed with him recently.Anyway, he mentioned your ad subscriptions are proving to be pretty lucrative. I have a blog which I intend to develop into a Travel Resource and have wondered abut ads before.Anyway, maybe you could help me out a little. Where to look, things to read about promoting my site, that kinda stuff.Any help will be much appreciated.Martinrolling_stone_06@yahoo.co.ukhttp://soulchaser.blogspirit.com

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Comment About Colombia Airplane

Want to travel with me, a.k.a. Andy? Send info and photo tohoboontheroad AT yahoo.comAndy

Comment About WHEN TO LEAVE

Yep, nothing is totally bad, and I laugh when the same people want to watch sports.Balance in everything is needed, however I have learned this the very hard ways, because for sure I am an obsessive person.

Comment About Uncontacted Tribes

indeed! TV et al. are not inherantly bad... they are only bad when we get addicted. Like alcohol. I'll sit here with a glass of whiskey sometimes and enjoy it and that's fine. But if I became addicted to alcohol, i'd be in a very dark place that is a whole lot different. I think we can watch TV, listen to the radio, surf the net etc. without getting hooked... without relying on it so much that we would re-shcedule a night out if the VCR didn't work just so as not to miss *insert name of soap here*.of course, i spend longer on the internet than i feel i should. But i'm trying to read more..

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Thanks :o)

Comment About Colombia Airplane

Fascinating... I'm engaged to a wonderful peruana who explained to me the same idea, using "flichera" instead. When we were in Chiclayo visiting friends (mi familia chiclayana), several of the guys in the plaza made "flichera" comments at her as we were walking along together. She told me about it later, knowing I might have confronted them. Good observations, Andy. Grace to you in your quest for friends.

Comment About BRIDGECHERA

I normally do the layer thing, sweatshirt and light jackets. I normally by the sweatshirt in the USA because they are cheaper and better quality. However I have purchased many funky jackets, and thrown away many jackets. Normal cost is about 10 dollars U.S.A.

Comment About Colombia Airplane

do you generally take a coat with you when you travel? being a fairly large person i find coats take up a lot of room... And i've only travelled in the UK (where i live) so far. they can be squashed a bit with some effort (i don't wear things like trenchcoats) but i wondered if it's best to buy them on the road or take one?

Comment About Colombia Airplane

Get better soon Andy!I am hitting the road on Saturday for 2 weeks in Europe. South America will be the next destination that I wish to see mainly because it is close, cheap and very interesting. I am still working on my plan to be a hobo as well!Happy Trails!Roberthttp://www.prudenttravel.com

Comment About Guayaquil

Light, fan, backpack organizer,... I know you have (or had) a bucket, and you have a water boiling coil and a long hasped lock, your alcohol stove, your cooking pans. What am I missing?Me: I always carry a colorful lightweight cotton sleep sheet/hostel bag type thingie. Instant nest, (cleanliness, security, I take my passport, etc. in the bag with me) useful also for laundry bag, curtain, beach blanket.. etc. etc.Talked to someone who won't travel without an aroma candle, since odors get to her.I'm having fun with the article, don't know who'll buy it yet, the budget travel market is slim to nothing.LeslieReaders, if you have ideas like this, feel free to mail me at GrubStreet@postmark.net

Comment About Mancora Peru Hotel

Wow! Its good to know that HI has basically NO standards...I don't think that I have ever stayed at an HI hostel since they are usually not in the best place or far from where I want to be. Looks like Lonely Planet needs to update their books.http://www.prudenttravel.com

Comment About Mancora Peru Hotel

Andy,Keep it up man! You are an inspiration to travelers everywhere. I juts wanted to say that, and hello, and also to let you know your laundry link on the main page was acting up. Keep living the hobo life. I plane to head out indefinatly in about 3 years, and maybe we will cross paths.

Comment About Mancora Peru Hotel

I was thinking about this myself more or less, wondering how people can live in the rooms around the world when they do not adapt them or change them?I have a light, a fan, backpack organizer for my clothes, many extras that makes it easier.

Comment About Mancora Peru Hotel

Neat-looking hotel! Makes me want to travel right now.Love it when you show photos of your rooms...and your adaptations of them. (hint hint) One of my favorite aspects of your blog, how you make your environment work for you.Tring to write an article right now on that aspect of budget travel.Leslie

Comment About Mancora Peru Hotel

Wow, great blog! I'll have to come back to peruse some more because you've got so many great posts...keep it up : DBetter go get some coffee myself.

Comment About Coffee Grinder

hmmm you have another reader with my name it seems. How quaint.We have a lot of words flying about over here (UK) about illegal immigration at the moment. Unfortunately, the media got dragged into the election a few weeks ago. Fortunately, that being the case, we still didn't end up with a more conservative or right-wing government. (dang media). It is, of course, a problem, however much pseudo-leftys like me want to harp on about facsism and so on. I suppose the line is "if you have a genuine problem, seek asylum, but don't sneak in through the back door!" ah I really must learn not to talk politics before i go off globe-trotting...We once recieved a similar letter to my school (i was pased it being on student council) and however much I wanted to have compassion and send the guy money, it was obviously a scam. These people are suprisingly good.

Comment About US Immigration

It tends to be the harder of the options, but I have found that more information will be given in a non-judgemental way if you are honestly looking for work, and tell them that you would like to learn while working.

Comment About Cocoa

Oh no! The hobo is sick! This is not good. Make sure you get enough water and asprin if that fever comes back. I hope you get better soon. I leave the USA for Europe in 12 days. I am doing a 2 week stint in Europe as an after college graduation vacation. I will be posting to my blog as much as I can during that time. I am now working full time to become a hobo just like you!http://www.prudenttravel.comR. Burns

Comment About Delirious and Stir Crazy

:o( that sucks. at least you have us internet-y people with you in thought... hope you feel better soon.-ash

Comment About Delirious and Stir Crazy

this is, i think, the final nail in the coffin for me... I will NOT be taking a cell phone with me on my travels. I reasoned that "i'd have it off until i want to call someone" but screw it. I'll use a pay phone if necessary!-ash

Comment About Cell Phone Tax

Hmmm... Interesting that you posted on this blog...If you did not have your head up your butt you would see the problems. However these Volunteer agencies need you to survive. Hmm.. a new mission.

Comment About VOLUNTEER PERU

it's quite hard to imagine people not thinking in terms of words for someone like me... sounds kinda fun!

Comment About Jambeli Janbeli Jumbeli

Andy, you come across as jaded and cynical. What a shame your cynicism prevents you from seeing light shining in darkness.

Comment About VOLUNTEER PERU

Hmm... I will have to check the map, there may be a train directly to the ocean, and I am pretty sure there is a train from Riobamba to Bucay, however it stops there and has been broken for quite a few months I am told.Andy in Machala Ecuador

Comment About Bucay Train

there is cool train going to the coast from riobamba, which does the devil's ridge or called something like that.... where the train goes down switchbacks by going forward and then backwards down the mountain. never done it myself but wanted to as i spent 3 years there doing relief work around ec. guayaquil is tougher than the highlands so be on your smart. i built a cool little relief house not too awlful far from riobamba, above pujili that was quite an experience... fun country to explore, the highlands and the amazon part as you know.

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READER SENT EMAIL... wish the would post in comments, so the world can share the advice.Hi I work in the semi-con industry and ship parts around the world. Over the last year we are having trouble with the customs people in the US when we ship with DHL. The only (cynical I know) explanation we have is that DHL are a German based company so customs hold them up, shipments with the US company Fed Ex have been the quickest. Did you get a tracking number for your parcel? MartynMY ANSWERHello,I have a parcel tracking number.I am not worried about quick, and I do not trust Fed Ex as I am in the dodgy countries, they are not, I need the package to arrive, and quick is not the solution.Did not know they was German... heheheAndy of HoboTraveler.com

Comment About DHL

Si esta or va a mas zonas de mierda como ellos hablar cuando con esta aerelinas.Yo acuedo mucho.Mas or menos no esta importante.This airlines is a problem.Andy of HoboTraveler.com

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