8 tips to survive your first time eating alone at a restaurant.
The Perfect Getaway at Kamandalu Resort Ubud
As a typical shallow millennial, I get a lot of my travel inspiration from stalking people with better lives than me on Instagram. I booked Kamandalu solely because I’d seen a photo of their floating breakfast on some beautiful rich asshole’s Instagram and decided that price tag be damned, I was staying at one of…
Why You Should NEVER Take a Wooden Boat Tour in Komodo
For my second day in Komodo I decided to forgo the comfort of a speedboat and take a traditional wooden fishing boat out to Padar Island and Manta Point, for a ~more authentic experience~. Local boats are the frugal traveler’s ticket to touring Komodo National Park. They are not particularly glamorous – you’ll be sitting…
How to Survive Komodo National Park
For the first stop of my first ever solo trip, I thought it would be a good idea to ship myself to a remote Indonesian island to see some giant, poisonous, prehistoric lizards. Upon descending into Komodo Airport, as my tiny propeller plane wildly shook back and forth from strong gusts of wind amid the…
The Stupid and Embarrassing Way My Adventure Started
So how did all of this start? In probably the most hilarious, ironic way of all time for a girl who loves flying… I got dumped in an airport. I had been dating this guy for just over two years (and five more on/off). We had just flown 15 hours from Sydney to San Francisco…