Rite Of Passage: Tales of Backpacking ‘Round Europe

I purchased Rite of Passage this book because of how much I enjoyed reading the short travel stories in Europe From A Backpack being that they are both compilations of short travel stories written by young backpackers in Europe. However, I found the stories in Europe From A Backpack to be more wild and entertaining. Maybe this was because I read the books almost 5 years apart and was in a different mood. Who knows! I found Rite of Passage to be more tame and edited in its storytelling, which is what I normally enjoy most. There was just something about the raw, unedited stories that was more telling about what American youths really do (like it or not) while they are backpacking Europe that I found so unapologetic, messy and real. Maybe I especially liked it because I don’t have to participate in some of what they are doing and experiencing, knowing that many of these dirty twenty-somethings I would dislike in real life! But in Rite of Passage the characters just seemed more likable and I genuinely enjoyed about every other story and found some to be quite entertaining and humorous.

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