hey guys welcome to my first ever ask me anything where you were invited last week through my email
list and also through my instagram stories to ask me whatever burning questions you have about
travel life my channel my plans for the future i'm actually wearing the dress that you guys
voted on yesterday i showed my thread up haul so i'm unboxing some stuff from thredup this is where
90 of my maternity wardrobe has come from it's just way cheaper and more sustainable
and you guys chose this one as your favorite of the bunch so wore it for you today by the
way that's a really good place to see what's happening in the day to day to keep up and
catch up if that's what you feel like doing so follow there if you're not already first question
is what are all my travel plans so far this year first and foremost quebec in canada it should be
snowy and cold and there should be lots of maple syrup which i'm very excited about
the maple syrup on snow give me the maple syrup on stone yes and then hawaii basically
right after that so garrett my partner has a part-time job working as an er doctor in hawaii
they're super underserved they don't have enough staff and so he's been working part-time out there
and we're going to have a sort of baby moon out there and make it into a bigger trip so i'm really
excited about that after that i don't really know i'll be in my third trimester of pregnancy and i
just have to see how i'm feeling probably not anything crazy or international after that point
and that's partially just because getting stuck abroad say with covet or something like that while
in the realm of possible delivery just doesn't sound good to me there's so much that i can drive
to so many cool things around me and i'm gonna focus on that until giving birth and then i don't
know what happens after that we'll find out how is solo travel while pregnant is it any different
it's different in the sense that sometimes people are trying to be more accommodating so i've had
someone let me go in front of her in the bathroom lying because she could say i was pregnant i've
had people ask where my husband is or be like wow you're out here by yourself and you're pregnant
like adding a layer to it however solo traveling before i also had people kind of wondering where
my boyfriend partner dad was so that part is not different but having the assumption that
i definitely have a husband and he must be around when i went to get a sandwich in texas the first
trip where people could actually see that i was pregnant i went to get a sandwich the guy asked
me when i was due i told him and then i went back to get another one later and he was like oh this
must be for your husband i was like no this one's also for me so i think it's just the assumption
that clearly my partner must be with me and the other big assumption is that we must be married
um both things not being true so it's just kind of interesting traveling solo now with
people assuming that my husband must be around or being maybe even a little bit more impressed
that i'm doing things by myself am i going to find out the gender of my baby or be surprised
i already know the sex of my baby i did the non-invasive prenatal testing
really early on so i knew by my 13th week what the sex of my baby is i did the whole cake and
everything with my family it was really wonderful and i will put that video out really soon here
every step of this pregnancy i felt a little bit more willing to open up about it but as you know
if you watched my pregnancy announcement video i really struggled early on just uh with having
confidence in it and in myself and so i haven't felt super comfortable talking about it this whole
time but i'm getting more and more comfortable as we go so i will share that video really soon
and then you will also know the sex of my baby this question came up over and over and over
so many people asked am i gonna travel with baby yeah absolutely i'm gonna travel with baby that's
one of the things i was most excited about in terms of becoming a mother i think it would be
amazing to see the world through a child's eyes i think it would be amazing to show them the world
and that's one of the things i'm most looking forward to and i cannot wait for that aspect of
motherhood and i'm not going to give up hiking i'm not going to give up road trips i'm not going to
give up flying and going to far-off places and adventures i'm going to just add another person
to the mix and show them what it's like to do this and i think that's going to be a really
enriching childhood so i'm looking forward to that what are some of the first places we plan
on going i would really like to go to new england this fall that's where garrett's from and i think
that would be a good trip that is sort of long enough while also being short enough travel time
from here on the west coast area all the way over to the east coast to kind of test things
and they'll be pretty young at that point so i think it'll just be a good way to sort of test
the waters and that's just an idea that we have since garrett is working part-time in hawaii
i think we may go out there again and i would really love to go back to namibia as a family
it's where garrett and i met completely by chance around a campfire outside of etosha national park
in namibia we talked for like 20 minutes we kept in touch now we're having a family together so
it's kind of crazy and i would absolutely love love love to go back to the lodge where we met
with our baby i think that would just be a magical like full circle experience do i have advice for
people who would like to travel full-time but who aren't working online on say a blog or a youtube
channel yeah save up first and then just go and have a sabbatical that's what i did before i
started my blog i worked for four years in mergers and acquisitions i took what i hadn't put into
like retirement funds and investments and i just traveled with it i traveled really cheaply so that
i could just keep going for as long as possible i was staying pretty much exclusively in dorms
i was eating street food which was great and i highly recommend it in southeast asia
taking public transportation absolutely everywhere and i mean the local local transportation and i
had great experiences that way and just traveling on a shoestring i looked back on it with such
rose-colored glasses and i had a really good time doing it so save up a bunch of money and then go
take a break i think there's nothing wrong with that what's the longest i've been away from my
home country and did i feel bad about leaving my loved ones so i've done an eight month chunk
three separate times that i can think of yeah you do eventually get to a point where you wonder why
you put so much space between you and the people you care about and i didn't really start to think
about that until i had been traveling and mostly not being at home for five or six years you know
i think at first going out and exploring the world it's a wonderful healthy thing to do if you can do
it if it's available to you and a lot of people do it to sort of soul search and figure out who
they are and i think that you can come home as a better version of yourself after doing this
i never felt guilty but eventually i started to feel like i had limited time left with all the
people who i care about and so i wanted to spend more of it with them that's why i moved back to
the states how am i thinking about climate change as it relates to traveling i wanted to answer
this one because traveling obviously does have an impact on the globe positive and negative i wrote
a really long detailed very thoroughly researched blog post about the good and the bad of tourism
spoiler alert a lot of it's really bad and so i think for all of us it's about being conscious
conscious about what we choose to put our money towards it's not just the energy that you take to
travel but the energy that it takes to heat the bigger houses that people are buying everyone
going out and buying rvs camper vans these are gas guzzlers instead of recycling reusing or getting
things used always buying things new so i've always been a big fan of thrifting and vintage
whenever i can my whole berlin apartment was thrifted furniture and i am no saint i know that
my life and my lifestyle choices have used a lot of energy over the years i'm on an airplane right
now going somewhere cool far more than someone living in a developing nation who is getting
almost everything second hand i think we shouldn't point the finger at any one person but for me what
i try to do to make things greener is to not buy new things because that takes a huge toll
on the environment too and to really vote with my dollars when i travel and put it in the hands
of local people locally owned organizations and hotels and tours and to not stay in places that
are all inclusive because those are really bad for the environment am i religious i have talked
about this i've touched on it a little bit on my channel before i think that all religions deserve
respect but i'm not religious and that doesn't mean i'm not spiritual and that i don't believe in
energetic forces and something bigger than myself in terms of any one religion no i find buddhism to
be the most applicable to my life just because i find that it's the most calming and with the
meditation retreats that i've done in thailand at monasteries and what i've read about buddhism it's
just what i connect with the most and so i like that one but i think that as long as we all just
respect each other and know that we all have the reasons for believing what we do we are kind to
one another and don't use our beliefs to subjugate others then i have no problem with religion
i really appreciate you guys taking the time to ask me things i know i didn't answer every single
question i got some of them were really specific but if you're still wondering you can ask in the
comments below and i will go ahead and answer you and i would love to know what kind of content you
want to see from me moving forward with a baby i think it'll be a big change from the soho travel
stuff but i really appreciate you being here with me and i can't wait to see you soon take care