Empty Rucksack Travelers Club The ultimate platform for hand picked travel experiences from around the world. Empty Rucksack is your temple for inspiration to bring out that empty rucksack and fill it with memories.
We are, Ladies and Gentleman, Vik & Ish, Vikram and Ishwinder, not the first travelers but the first rucksackers. We have traveled to 22 countries,trekked in the Himalayas, Alps and hiked deep into Sumatran rain forests, seen the sun go down on the beaches of Greece, watched belly dances in Istanbul, crossed high passes on road trip around ladakh, stayed on organic farms in south India, trekked the grand canyon, lost money in the casinos of Vegas, got our share on pictures with the wonders of world Eiffel tower, leaning tower and Colosseum, sought the remotest and prettiest corners of Italy – cinque Terre, ate the best pizza in the world, went caving in Slovenia, gorged on the street food in Vietnam, swam with the sharks in Perhentians, lazed in the hammocks of islands along the Mekong river in Laos, but the lust for travel never ends. The more we travel the more we want to travel.
If your quest is same as ours. Then join us. We are looking for fellow travelers, (no dreadlocks and tattoos necessary, I swear) going either around the world or around the neighborhoods to fill up our empty rucksacks with loads of memories, stories and pictures. This is your spot to unload your rucksack, empty it and share your stories and spread them.
We care about interesting stories of people and places, perspectives and realizations and put them together here. Traveling far is not what counts neither does the countries traveled nor the stamps on your passport, what counts is to see new in everyday things or maybe make new an everyday thing.
Travelers are people with no identity in particular but can be identified with their SLRs hanging down from their necks or the notebook with the pen. If you are one such person then send us your travel story with a photograph and we will give it the space.
We would love to help you to fill your rucksack. There you go. We may or may not be slightly older travellers than what you are used to, but we don’t think that that matters. We are intent on spending our children’s inheritance and therefore we are free, fit and financial and confident enough to do whatever we want. Do you hate us already? Actually we like to organise all of our own travels, we always have. If Gordy wants to see a total eclipse of the sun then we organise to go to Turkey to do it. If i have a desire to stay in a houseboat in Amsterdam then we do. By the way, i got propositioned in the red light district. Gordon was so annoyed that he kept going back until they asked him. Would love to do a post on how we just do what we like when we like. or … it could be destination specific.
Regards, Paula
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I never thought I would check my email one morning to find such a beautiful comment waiting to be read with an offer for a guest post for our rucksack in such adventure filled words. You have made all the efforts we have put in our blog for the past few months worth it. Thanks Paula.
I love the way you describe your wanderlust as your determination to spend your “children’s inheritance”. Sometimes I also feel that travel for us is running away from our responsibilities towards our parents. It is surprising at whichever stage in life you may be, life can still make you guilty for pursuing your dreams. Your cue for the guest post “outside the front door” has made me think more and more in this direction.
Please feel free to write whatever it is that is heartfelt. Give us a part of you that we may cherish and keep with us forever just like this beautiful comment. It may be a walk on the beach with Gordon, or things you hate about traveling, or cups of coffee you will never forget or things that traveling as a couple you have realized about each other. It could be like everyday utility or a special something. Anything, but something with a piece of you (not literally :P)!