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Going on a foreign holiday is an odd one, but I wonder if that implies a back-packing or other independant travel, unlike the group travel or no travel at all that many Japanese tend towards as they get older.
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A hooter-smoking, back-packing couple stumble upon a boarded up mine shaft.
Special Dead (2007) 2010
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Not content with how events and traditions were dictated to him, Malcolm picked up and toured Africa and Southwest Asia on his own, and not via the equivalent of a 'back-packing sojourn', but on a spiritual and, at times, even near-diplomatic quest.
Harnessing Curiosity, Conquering Fear: Malcolm X As Exemplar 2010
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Not content with how events and traditions were dictated to him, Malcolm picked up and toured Africa and Southwest Asia on his own, and not via the equivalent of a 'back-packing sojourn', but on a spiritual and, at times, even near-diplomatic quest.
Pye Ian: Harnessing Curiosity, Conquering Fear: Malcolm X As Exemplar 2010
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About 25 years ago, while back-packing thru Italy, my cousin and I made a post card from a Tampax box because we thought the word “tamponi” was awesome!
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Not content with how events and traditions were dictated to him, Malcolm picked up and toured Africa and Southwest Asia on his own, and not via the equivalent of a 'back-packing sojourn', but on a spiritual and, at times, even near-diplomatic quest.
Pye Ian: Harnessing Curiosity, Conquering Fear: Malcolm X As Exemplar Pye Ian 2010
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I ate a hamburger for dinner and wandered around under the bright lights among the back-packing youth of Europe.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010
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I'd been back-packing across Europe, and one day, a hundred miles or so south of Rome along the Mediterranean coast, with the sun setting and no affordable lodging in sight, I landed for the night on an empty beach's soft sand.
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When people buy their products, they are encouraged to use them throughout the world such as white water canoing through the BC mountains, back-packing throughout Europe and Asia, and camping in the winter in Everest type conditions.
MEC votes against a boycott GayandRight 2009
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I have ran the majority of my life - I do it because I honestly love it, same thing with hiking and back-packing, but whenever I talk to people about it I have to make sure they know I'm not good.
I Am Not an Athlete floreta 2009
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