- GLOBAL TRAVEL GUIDE
- 100 of the World’s Best Trips
- Tips and Gear for making tracks around the world
- What’s hot for ‘05
- Rewind 2004

This issue features the annual Global Travel Guide including: best lodges, unlikely destinations, gear essentials, travel health guide and 5 great places to park your wanderlusting butt, and more.

FEATURES

20_THE BEST TRIPS OF 2005
Making tracks, ends of the earth, on the water, the world as your classroom, goin’ hard and taking it on the road.

34_5 UNLIKELIEST TRIPS
A nuclear accident ghost town, Mexican witches, a landlocked navy, backpacking a war zone and playing polo in Kyrgyzstan with a dead goat. Trips you never imagined taking.

39_MORE GREAT PLACES TO PARK YOUR WANDERLUSTING BUTT
Sometimes you gotta move, but other times you just want to hang our in one of the world’s special places.

42_TRAVELLER’S PICKS
Four guides give their fave travel spots.

46_ESSENTIALS FOR THE MODERN NOMAD
You have your plane tickets and a map. Oh yeah, you need clothes, gear, and other stuff, too. Let us be your guide.

DEPARTMENTS

07_TRIPPING
WHAT’S HOT FOR ‘05
Trends, hot spots and travel news to watch out for in ‘05

10_COMIX
Welcome to My Country: the boys head north across Canada

12_THE NEWS THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT TO PRINT
A look at some news stories from the Outpost world that you probably didn’t hear about in the last 12 months.

17_SOFT MACHINE
TRAVEL HEALTH GUIDE

40_MEC’S THE TRAVELLER’S EDGE
TIPS + IDEAS TO GO

55_OUTPOST CULTURE
REWIND 2004
A look back at our fave books, music and film from around the globe the past year.

66_WRIGHT OF WAY
TRAVEL OFF THE TRACK
Ian remembers his early days of roughing it in Eastern Europe.
RESOURCES

58_BACKPACKERS BUZZ
Travel news and updates from Hostelling International Alberta and British Columbia