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A friend
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03-21-2006, 10:16 AM
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Don't cut the red wire...
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Washington
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Speaking of 0% from Hostels, I wonder if there's a way to get placement in them... this board certainly sends enough business their way ... 
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03-25-2006, 08:49 PM
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Members
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC
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I searched "backpacking message boards" on google =)
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03-25-2006, 09:24 PM
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Drifter in the making.
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: The Bubble, Ontario
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Wow I thought i had posted in this topic but apparently not...
I was looking online for a Canadian version of Thegumtree.com which is a board for aussies in the Uk and other places with rooms for rent, jobs and things for sale...
I stumbled across this place while searching for that... and never looked back.
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03-27-2006, 09:46 AM
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Members
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: school in CT..but home will always be JERSEY
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somehow online....who know's
sure glad i did though, huh?
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03-19-2007, 11:52 PM
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TPunk Emeritus
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Templeton, California
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wow old thread! Jake had to find it for me...props to jake 
My own discovery came from when i googled "traveling and backpacks" or something to that nature. TP was about the third site under the search results. I spent five hours reading Travelpunk that night. Loved the site ever since!
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03-20-2007, 04:17 AM
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TPunk Recognized
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: NB, MA
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I found it via Google.
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"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger, or a beer."
-Confucius
Somewhere in England (maybe) - Spring (TBA)
Israel - Summer (TBA)
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03-20-2007, 05:32 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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i googled "Backpacking Tips" and there was Tpunk
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03-20-2007, 08:45 AM
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always trippin'
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: The Island of Rhode
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I was posting on some progressive rock/metal forums about travel (yeah, I know the two don't go together very well, but whatever - I bring travel into everything  ) and someone recommended me this site. Unfortunately I don't remember who it was.
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03-20-2007, 08:49 AM
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TPunk Recognized
Join Date: May 2004
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Googled hostels and found travelpunk. Thank god! 
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You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go. - Dr. Suess
Why I'm not on TPunk as much anymore: http://www.kaushallab.cbl.umces.edu/people.html#katie
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03-20-2007, 09:04 AM
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Immigrating? Easy? Right.
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Cairns, Australia
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Is it bad that I was going to repost on here until I realized that I already did. Damn those brain cells!
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"The whole object of travel is to not set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as foreign land" -G.K. Chesterton
"As long as we have memories of the ones we love, we will always be home" - me
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Go Gators!
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03-20-2007, 06:18 PM
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TPunk Recognized
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Fairfield, Ca
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googled for backpacking in asia
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ok screw the blog go to my website instead
the new and improved stupidhurts.org
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03-20-2007, 06:53 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Connecticut for now, but Idaho originally...
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I found TPunk when I was desperately yearning to travel somewhere. When I found the site, it seriously only had 12 members. I used the site a little and then kind of forgot about it. When I remembered it and came back it had TONS of members. It grew really quickly - and still does all the time!!
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"The tiger can't change his spots. No, wait, he did! Good for him!"
-Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)
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03-20-2007, 08:43 PM
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TPunk Emeritus
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Bath, Maine USA
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I googled "backpacking in europe.."
to plan a trip.
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03-20-2007, 11:52 PM
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Ohio State's #1 Fan
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Phoenix, AZ!
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haha i so laughed when i read this post title....
when i was in europe and hanging with my scottish and aussie friends..theyd always be like "howd ya find it" and i would ALWAYS say "oh theres a map in my guidebook"...but really they were asking liked how was it...hahaha i miss that
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"I wanna be there, I wanna go back down and get high by the sea there, with a tin cup for a chalice, fill it up with good red wine, and ill be chewin' on a honeysuckle vine...." - Jimmy
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06-23-2008, 06:05 PM
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french touch
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Québec
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Now that the site reached the 10 thousandth tpunk  , I thought I'd relaunch this thread.
I think I actually made a mistake when I answered the poll. I said through a search engine, but it was in fact via a link given in another travelsite. Can't remember which one, it's been five years already !
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people are people
Last edited by Esterina; 06-23-2008 at 06:11 PM.
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06-23-2008, 07:50 PM
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TPunk Recognized
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Miami, FL
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Goooogle! 
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09-20-2008, 05:17 AM
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Members
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BedtimeontheMoon
Goooogle! |
Me tooo.......
I found this forum from google
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09-20-2008, 11:07 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: I'm only here until I achieve escape velocity
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IIRC I was searching for things to do in Europe when backpacking when TravelPunk came up on the google search.
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09-20-2008, 01:46 PM
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Resident Junglist
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: somewhere over the rainbow
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someone told me about it when i was on the road in asia - i spend around 3 years simply lurking and reading then finally joined last year
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Up next...
Euro trips for gigs and festivals as usual...
Then heading east to NZ & Aus for a few years! Via Abu Dhabi, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
Time to get out of the UK for a while!! 
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09-20-2008, 09:08 PM
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TPunk Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: NEW ZEALAND
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Trusty Google...!
I was just randomly looking for travel stuff, no particular reason just procrastinating 
Definately glad I found it though!!
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