There is a new travel trend on the rise far from luxury hotels and fancy dinners. Off Track Planet, dedicated to independent travel lifestyles, is releasing their first self-published magazine featuring a New York City guide to getting drunk, partying, having sex, eating and sleeping on a “backpackers” budget…OTP likes to think, “It’s the unisex [...]

Oh wow, this was a real toughie here. One of the hardest decisions we have ever had to make. It was a tight race all the way to the end, but there could only be one. After many long hours of deliberation…a couple punches to the head, a black eye and bloody nose later we [...]

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We are off to Bogota, Colombia this Monday to begin developing, researching and exploring material for OTP’s South America Travel Guide. For 2 months, we plan to explore the revival of Colombia, then down into Peru for Machu Picchu, up and across the Amazon River into Brazil and completely wing it from there on. We [...]

You may sympathize with those signs and banners that read “Free Tibet”; maybe you even went out and bought the T-shirt. As much as we commend your attempts to spread the word (and be fashionable), here is a chance for you to actually do something to help Tibetans living in exile: A brief history: Tibet [...]

Swine flu. Scary scary stuff. Something about pigs and Mexicans and sure death. You remember SARS? How people sent it through your mailbox? Yeah that SARS killed off everyone you know, right? Oh and West Nile Virus. We hope you’re current on the vaccinations because you never know when those mosquitoes might make it over [...]

We believe the spirit of a backpacker is something that develops early in life. It’s that burning urge to find out what’s behind every little door in the house (even if it turns out to be the linen closet or the drawer where your mom keeps the tupperware.) The desire to climb that old fence [...]

Lets see, what can you do in a week? Get a great tan laying on the beach, organize your closet, maybe build a tree house? OR-you can change your life (and the lives of countless needy others) forever. Cross Cultural Solutions, a well-established volunteer network, is currently offering week-long volunteer programs in the following locations [...]

SEX OTP is interested in featuring your sex stories from abroad. Whether it was that steamy hot latin boy you met at a bar who knew how to roll his rrr’s properly, or the Swedish girl in the hot bikini who would not stop talking about meatballs…Or, maybe you found yourself in a sticky situation [...]

Couchsurfing.com is hiring! Those clever couch-lovers have come up with new and interesting ways to improve their couchsurfing community. Every year, for roughly six month stretches, they set up a collective in some part of the world (the current collective is in Costa Rica). These collectives (really like a temporary office) are made up of [...]