A New Release by Zack Reed
SAME BAG, DIFFERENT BUNK
A candid look at the hostel industry in America, told from the perspective of a backpacker who spent more than a year cycling through various hostels, living out of the same bag while swapping out bunks as they became available. Drawing on a compilation of interviews, essays, and reflections from the road, Zack Reed confronts the misconceptions and assumptions surrounding the American hostel industry, illustrating along the way many of the characters, uncomfortable moments, and indelible memories that make up traveling as a solo backpacker in hostels.
Available everywhere books are sold: 10/21/25
From the Book
“For all those reasons, and some others, I considered leaving several times, especially at first. Only to go back home to start fresh. But the realization hit me, as I weighed my alternatives, that the road had become home. The road that has thrown me countless twists and turns but seems to always bring me back to the thing that makes it so interesting, so compelling, and in fact, quite addictive: the variety, but perhaps even more so, the people.”
“The litany of personalities, the things people are willing to do or have even done to get there, is part of what makes the whole setup so fascinating and, in its own way, quite addictive—that temporary holdover of a home steadily eases you in and becomes more comfortable the more you see others do the same.”
Same Bag, Different Bunk: My Life Inside American Hostels
The stories behind the beds.
Zack Reed
Zack Reed has been writing about his life and experiences through both fiction and nonfiction, although he sometimes finds it difficult to differentiate between the two.
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