A Broken Backpack

Personal travel blog with destination guides, travel tips and slow travel advice.

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Written By

Mel (Melissa)

Travellers

Solo

Focus

General

Popularity

13 / 100

Running Since

2015

Posts

1,359

Last Updated

Aug 2026

About A Broken Backpack

A Broken Backpack is run by Melissa "Mel", a Canadian travel blogger who began travelling in 2014 and started the site in July 2015. The blog has grown into a large resource with more than 1,300 posts covering destination guides, itineraries, practical tips and travel news. Mel writes from long-term travel and living-abroad experience, sharing lessons on budget travel, backpacking, digital nomadism and slow travel, plus advice on earning online to support life abroad. The site also curates travel deals and promo codes and offers destination-specific guides to help readers plan trips and stay on the road longer.

A Broken Backpack reads like a long conversation with a resourceful backpacker who learned to travel on a shoestring and then kept refining her approach. Mel's voice is personable and practical, and the snippets on the homepage show a lively, reader-friendly tone that moves easily from wellness retreats to detailed hiking guides. The site mixes hands-on destination posts, timely travel news and curated deals, and it remains active through 2026 with more than thirteen hundred posts. We reach for this site when we want grounded, experience-driven advice for slow travel, living abroad and planning real itineraries.