Backpacking in Europe sounds like a great graduation gift. Or at least my parents in law thought, my baby had never been on his own here in town, much less on a different continent. He assured me that he could do it, we had travelled there as a family several times he had it all down pat from travel and staying to money and international wire transfers. He seemed very knowledgeable. Then four days after he left and 15 days before he was to return he called me to tell me he was having fun, but he sure had learned a lot.