Footloose and Fancy-Free in the Third World


A Backpacker's World Travel Handbook

Free travel advice on all aspects of mounting
an individual travel odyssey onto the backroads of the world.
Travel Like a Vagabond! *

 Copyright © 1992-2008, Randy R. Johnson, all rights reserved
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* Vagabond: "a wanderer, without a fixed schedule or itinerary"

   Preface

Welcome!  My Traveler's Handbook and Backpack Travel Guide for the Third World is back together again!  I began writing this traveler's handbook in 1991, before I had even heard of the World Wide Web.  I had finished 7 of the 12 planned chapters of the "book", before I tried selling it to publishing houses.  Guess what?  Yeah, Nobody was interested.

Later, when I started putting some of my other completed works up on the Web, I added several chapters from the "Traveler's Handbook" on my first (1995) edition of Randy's Travel Page. They included the sections on Planning, Security, Shopping, Transportation, and What to Take. Over the next couple of years I slowly re-edited, updated, and finished all the chapters, until the book was pretty much completed, on-line, by 1998.  Yes, it's all right here -- over 1.1 million bytes! -- it's free, and it's much easier for me to update regularly.  (Last update: June, 2004)

The original (1991, unpublished) hard-copy version had a number of my salty travel anecdotes and brief traveler's tales sprinkled around in side-bars.  These now reside on my "Glimpses of the Road" web page.  They are not reproduced on these "handbook" pages, but these first-person anecdotes are linked to within this document, wherever you see this "binocular" symbol:
     

So, without further ado, here is the Introduction and ten highly detailed chapters of Third World Travel Tips, which cover most of what I've got to say about the subject.  There is no specific destination guide information in here, just general information on how you can be a more savvy traveler.  This book is a part of the Travel Like a Vagabond section of Randy's Travel Page.  I hope you find some things in here to inform, prepare, and maybe even entertain you. 

By the way, if you'd rather print out the entire document and read it off-line, a Downloadable MS-WORD version is now available, See below; but the on-line version is the most up to date.

Happy Trails!

-- Randy

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Footloose and Fancy-Free in the Third World

Table of Contents

 Detailed Table of Contents (below)

Introduction

Other References: Throughout this book I list dozens of other works on specific travel subjects that you might find useful. I have not put together a thorough bibliography of books and sites on travel. But here I will recommend two recent books that thoroughly cover the same general area as mine -- Travel Tips from experienced travelers. They are "Tips for the Savvy Traveler", by Deborah Burns and "The Practical Nomad, How to Travel Around The World", by Edward Hasbrouck. The more points of view you get, the better you learn.


Detailed Table of Contents

For the Entire Book
Main High-Level Table of Contents


MS-WORD Version

 May, 2000: Back by popular demand! Instead of browsing on-line (above), you can alternatively download a ZIPped MS-WORD document of "Footloose and Fancy-Free in the Third World", suitable for printing out all at once. It's free, but it's 240 pages in Word 6.0 / Word95 format, Zipped to a third its size. Click here to Download the 360 kb file. Then you'll need to UNZIP it with PKUNZIP or WinZIP, and read in rjfootls.doc with Microsoft WORD for Windows 6.0 or later. Sorry, no other formats. This WORD document does not have the photos or web links of the web version (above), and is not likely to be updated again soon.


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