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Usage examples of backpacker.

All seven rows of the bleachers were full, the audience consisting of resort workers, fishermen and their families, with a smattering of tourists, mainly backpackers, but also a group of immensely fat Russian women who had been transported from a hotel farther along the beach in cyclos pedaled by diminutive Vietnamese men.

From the standpoint of many backpackers and relief workers, my journey was not arduous.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the loosening of travel restrictions inside China, backpackers could now go by land from St.

Instead of Western businessmen in Kashgar, we see only these backpackers, who have nothing to spend.

Three backpackers in the rear of the bus did not bother to look out the window, absorbed as they were in their paperback novels.

Though this might seem like very little, it was a fortune compared to what the other backpackers I had met were spending.

In November 1994, while I was in Cambodia, I would read a Reuters dispatch describing the eventual murder of the backpackers by the Khmer Rouge, the recovery of the victims’ bodies, and the autopsies that followed.

The expats, therefore, were a potential target of the Khmer Rouge, which, as the torture-murder of the three Western backpackers had made clear (not to mention the periodic kidnapping and murder of scores of Cambodian villagers), had an undiminished appetite for cruelty.

It turns up in novels, and there was an old flat movie, and an even older opera, and-- have you heard that old song the backpackers sing around the campfires?

Out of indecision, Arkady was swept up by the crowd and marched across the street to the base of the memorial church, grey and shattered as a tree trunk struck by lightning, where backpackers sprawled on the stairs to watch a street magician.

Departing from Zaventem Airport the next day was a leased, decrepit Aeroflot plane whose passengers were a motley, rowdy group of backpackers who had paid bargain-basement prices for the "Moscow Nights" package tour of Russia--three nights and four days in Moscow, followed by an overnight train to St.

One of the backpackers was a middle-aged man wearing green fatigues, a baseball cap, and a bushy brown beard.

It turns up in novels, and there was an old flat movie, and an even older opera, and—have you heard that old song the backpackers sing around the campfires?

I greatly respect what the backpackers were doing on their own, but I'm glad for myself that I waited to go until I had enough money to hire expertise that would enrich the trip beyond anything I personally brought to it.

The lodge was usually booked weeks ahead and backpackers, disembarking from the ships, often had to hike eight or more miles out before finding a camp for the night.