Backpacking 101: A guide to being a high maintenance traveller

*apologises in advance for all the swear words. (sorry mum!)

2018 was an absolute bag of dicks for me, I lost a job I put a lot of hard work into, had my heartbroken by my first love and my mental health reached an all time low. Being selfish is not my forte at all, however I truly knew things had to change so I could be happy again, and that my soul could feel content.

After spending the past month being a basic white girl and posting numerous "you are worthy" and "you've got this" quotes, I finally decided to actually have whatever that is and book to go travelling with two girls I only met last year in August. Let's just say, shit got real real fast, and for once I was looking after me.

These two girls are two of the most inspirational, beautiful, caring and kind humans I have ever ever ever met. I don't find it easy to let people in, however these two girls are now trapped for life, sorry not sorry!

"Sometimes the people whom we've known for only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known forever"

For anyone who properly knows me, knows I am 110% not the backpacking type, which explains the blog name extremely well, however I thought i'd just take one big risk and give it ago because you know "yolo" and all that.

Having had two weeks to turn this all around, packing a mountain warehouse bag and being high maintenance b*tch has been an absolute nightmare, those two things truly do not go hand in hand whatsoever.

I love to wear a full beat glam face of makeup every single day, rain or shine, ya gal has got on lashes, a blinding highlight and has usually covered her face in urban decay all nighter setting spray. I quickly realised that this was not going to be the case when I went travelling, and that I really really quickly needed to love the skin that I am in. 

After spending every night these past couple weeks reading blogs and watching videos on travelling one thing truly did stick with me, one thing I needed to realise was that I was going to see the world, and the world was not coming to see me.

and so ...tomorrow begins the start of our adventure!

Next stop, Hong Kong bitchessssssssss.

Anyway, I'm pretty happy with how this first post turned out.

Keep your eyes peeled for how I deal with my first week!

I'll make sure to post it on all my socials.

H x