Nineteen months abroad means that I get to share with you my top eleven moments from the last year and a half. I already gave you my top fifteen New Zealand moments, and some of that will make a reappearance on this list but expect plenty of new highlights, from the lush jungle of Ubud…
Tag: solo female travel
harsh realities of travel: travelling broke
Talking about needing money to travel isn’t an easy thing to do but it’s time to do just that. Mainly because I am literally travelling broke right now. A few weeks ago, while in Bali, I ran into a snag. A money snag. My hotel, where I’d been staying for two weeks, didn’t accept cards…
the dark side of solo travel: travelling with depression
*This may bother some people, so please skip if you think what I say about travelling with depression will make you feel a) uncomfortable, b) guilty, or c) angry. I have no desire am too tired to argue with you. I cannot write this for the tears that are streaming down my face. I’ve spent…
to everyone who is jealous of my travels: find your passion
When I was seventeen, I took my first international trip by myself. Never mind that it was a trip with forty other classmates and we were going to Guatemala for a mission trip. It was my first time away without my family and it was so exciting. I didn’t find my passion on that trip….
around the world in seven questions with andi on adventure
Today’s featured “around the world in seven questions” blogger is Andrea of Andi on Adventure. You can read more about her in her answer to the first question below – but she was in the aviation field for a long time before leaving to pursue different dreams. Now, she lives in Southeast Asia teaching English….
travel essay: the great ocean road
A winding road that stretches from Geelong to Warrnambool, that hugs the unstable cliffs over sapphire seas: Australia’s famous coastline of the Great Ocean Road seems to rise effortlessly from the water. As my bus passes through Lorne, the coastline is rocky, the continental shelf visible as the tide recedes. By the time I am at…
best of … 2016
Wow – it’s already 2017, and I can’t believe how fast 2016 went! What a year for The Girl With the Map Tattoo. I spent the entire year exploring New Zealand from literally top to bottom. I gained hundreds of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter followers, grew my blog readership, and even made the jump from…
travel essay: to all of my travelling friends
To all of my travelling friends, You know who you are. And I am so LUCKY to have you. We met in a bar. In a hostel. On the train. In a plane. In the airport. On a boat. On The Boat. Through a friend of a friend of a friend. On the trail. We…
a penguin experience with the royal albatross centre
Last week, I joined my flatmate Mandy on a Penguin Tour with the Royal Albatross Centre out on the Otago Peninsula. It was one of the cooler moments in my life, watching tiny blue penguins scurry out of the water and up to their nesting holes in the hillside. Read on for my experience and…
one day in wanaka
I’m back with another post about what to do with only one day in a New Zealand town. This time, its Wanaka. Wanaka lies about an hour north of Queenstown, along Lake Hawea and the road to the West Coast. Its a snow lover’s paradise in the winter and a hiker’s paradise in the summer….