Traveling with a Backpack: Essential Tips for Backpacking Trips
Your first major trip comes with a deluge of backpacking advice, whether you seek it out yourself or have others weigh in. All of these pieces of advice appear to have the same flaw: they just restate the obvious. No one will give you the crucial backpacking recommendations that will carry you through each day other "be safe" and "avoid dark alleyways," but here you have that information. If you don't want to learn the hard way, then heed my advice and adopt some basic but essential precautions on your next camping trip. Bring more medicine than you think you'll need. You may feel like a superhero after a successful trip. You may avoid the hassle of having to find a pharmacy, get out of bed, and learn how to properly pronounce the Spanish phrase for "throat lozenge" if you just carry the necessary medicine with you in your suitcase. Bring a selection of over-the-counter medications that you know will work in case of an emergency. It's prefera