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Clothing I Packed When I First Started Backpacking (and What I Would Do Differently Now!)
I started backpacking full time in 2018. Being type A, I spent hours researching what clothes to put in my 40L backpack. I wanted everything to have a purpose but was also on a strict budget. Most of what I got was thrifted or bought on discount. The items below is a complete list of what my backpack looked like in…
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July 2018 Budget
Big Purchases Travel insurance Expensive but essential for international trips. You can never predict what will happen to you and for a couple hundred dollars, the security is worth it! Housing for Taiwan/Japan I organized all of my housing in advance (something I would change later on) so I could be prepared and reduce anxiety. Clothing for trip I treated…
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June 2018 Budget
From my experience working in ‘Corporate America’, personal finance is often a secretive and elusive subject. I aim to remove the taboo of talking about money by publishing monthly budgets, being completely transparent with my spending. June 2018 was an expensive month, because I started to do some purchasing for my around the world trip. Contrarily, I was staying in…
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How I First Started to Travel Alone
All I heard for the months leading up to my first official solo world trip was: “You are traveling alone?”, “As a girl?”, “Wow, you are so brave.”. Well, bless me, baby Jesus, two years later and *spoiler* I am still alive! Courage Have you ever been trying to decide what to order for dinner with a friend or partner?…
