In planning out the end of my trip (which I did maybe three months ago), I wanted to avoid feeling the title of this post (but could always deal with sounding like Slimshady, cause he’s pretty fly). For so many travellers, going home is really jarring. I can understand this feeling. Going from meeting new … More Snap back to reality, oh there goes gravity
In a matter of days, my life did a complete 180. I went from taking showers with a bucket, being dirty and growing my food in a natural garden in Bali to wearing heels and a dress and going to a fancy club with bottle service in Mexico. Yeah, I know right. I went from … More From bucket showers to bottle service
I’ve spent the last month volunteering on a natural farm just outside of Ubud, Bali, growing vegetables, selling them to yogis, planting sprouts and getting dirtier than I have ever been before (I was pristine at the centre compared to now). Natural farm sounds like, no shit it’s natural but as I’ve learned natural is … More Growing my dinner and dancing in the galaxy
Sometimes life throws mild misfortunes at us, like a little mole scampering into and out of our field of vision. Sometimes, like we learned with the Cambodian bedbugs, that little mole can lead to great encounters. The last two weeks have been me rolling with the punches of life as my little mole skirts in … More The little mole of misfortune often leads to good
I’m often asked why I don’t fly to my destinations when they are particularly far away. My response is that for me, getting to the town is as much of an adventure as being in the town. And I’ve had so many adventures getting from one place to another, especially in the last three weeks … More I watched the sun set, rise and set again from the same bus window
After what was a beautiful but physically detrimental time on the Cambodian island of Koh Rong, Tyler and I headed to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia and the location of the majority of the historical facts surrounding the genocide they endured in the 1970’s. I’ve heard that you need three days in Phnom Penh: … More Our creepy, crawly, Cambodian stowaways
And it was a really really shit day. First of all, nobody panic, I am totally fine now. I just promised the whole truth in this blog, good days and bad days. Yesterday I went through the single worst bout of food poisoning of my entire life. Bar none. After spending more time than most … More It took me 3 and a half months to have a bad day
And it was so worth it. The other day, I saw Angkor Wat (which was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen). I had been told to rent a bicycle and see it that way. No tuk tuk or taxi, so you can do it all on your own time. So that was … More We biked 65 kilometres through rural Cambodia to see this beauty
It’s inevitable that you’re going to meet people while travelling, especially if you’re travelling alone like me. And unless you’ve planned your trip with someone else, you aren’t going to be on the exact same trajectory as the travellers you meet. Even if you do plan it together, sometimes one person wants to go here, … More The best and worst thing about travel
I don’t know how long you are supposed to wait before you can say you’ve had a change in mentality or lifestyle, but I think Chiang Mai might have changed me. I’ve had a series of days where at the end, we’re all going, “this was the best day ever”, only to go on and … More This is the most beautiful moment
A Girl Most Ordinary 