30 Dec 2015 44 Comments
Packing for Long-Term Travel
It seems impossible.
But you’ve decided to do it.
You’re going to travel with one carry-on bag.
For a long time.
Whether you’re traveling for a month or a year (or longer), taking all your belongings in only one carry-on bag (plus the extra purse or small backpack you’re allowed on most airlines), can be daunting. I’m fortunate that I learned on my very first overseas trip at nineteen years old that one bag can and does work.
But long-term travel is different from a week or even a month. This is where the rubber meets the road. This is where you remember all those things you packed before that never saw the outside of the suitcase. This is where you leave the mentality of “just in case” behind (with few exceptions).
First let me explain that I will be buying most of my clothes once I arrive at my first destiny (Bali). This way my bag is lighter, I have more room for clothes, I will buy weather- and culturally appropriate stuff, and the clothes will be much less expensive than were I to buy them in the States.
So, without further ado, here is everything (almost; a few didn’t make the photo shoot) that is going into my two bags (the carry-on and its companion zip-off day pack):
26 Mar 2016 9 Comments
Take a Beach Walk with Me–Koh Lanta, Thailand
I go early, just as the sun crests the eastern mountains and the first rays of light touch upon the early-morning emerald-green tide.
This is when the locals of Koh Lanta, Thailand, come, before the temperature rises along with the tropical sun. The beach is sparsely dotted. Children with baskets in hand collect seashells; adults, wrapped in sarongs, t-shirts wet after their morning swim, squat on the sand, chatting quietly, unaware of the happy little hermit crab ambling by.
An ambling hermit crab and his current home.
Unknown tracks.
Tracks of unknown origins leave wild scallops and wave shapes that pepper the soft, pure white sand, a last testament to the first predawn visitors to the beach. Continue reading
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by Vagabond Queen in Beach, Koh Lanta, RTW, Solo female travel, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Uncategorized, vagabonding