Fill in the story by using the words below.

budget • continent • conversation • cozy • daily grind • entertainment • figure out • fingertip •
imagination • mundane • public transportation • soul • swapping • thrilling

It started with a 1. over a cold soda on a lazy Saturday afternoon. “Let’s backpack across
the 2. this summer,” my best friend Mia said. At first, I thought she was joking, but the idea had
a 3. ring to it. Could we leave behind the 4. routine of our 5. , and set off on
an adventure?
Planning the trip took weeks. We had to 6. how to stretch a tiny 7. across multiple
countries, manage 8. , and fit everything we needed into backpacks not much bigger
than a 9. .
Our first stop was a bustling city filled with street performers offering 10. at every corner.
We tasted foods we couldn’t pronounce and listened to music that seemed to reach into the 11. .
In the countryside, we wandered through a national park that looked like it was pulled from
someone’s 12. . A sudden rain forced us to find shelter in a small, 13. inn where we spent
the evening 14. stories with fellow travelers.