good morning from the beautiful city of rocks where i am all alone last
week garrett and i were out in the california desert enjoying our last baby moon together
now he's out working in hawaii so i decided to take a solo trip in southern idaho
a place where i was likely to truly spend a lot of time alone
so quiet and peaceful out here enjoying myself my introverted nature and recharging on what might
be one of my last solo trips for a while i was so sure that i was not gonna get to see this wow
i'm in southern idaho at the moment this is called city of rocks it's a bunch of like
granite rocks really interesting formations and most people come here to climb
i'm not doing that today but it's just perfect for seeking my solitude hello friend hello
this is pretty look at all the cows in the mountains i love that
excuse me
huh
nice little adventure
good way to start the morning
camp rock yeah it looks like a camps
little outfit change i'm at shoshone falls now
and i don't see any signs that say i can't so let's fly
today has turned out really beautiful which i'm so grateful for and now i'm at the visitors center at
twin falls and there's this really cool bridge overlook all throughout my journey so far i've
been like crossing the snake river which is cool i was trading voicemails on whatsapp with
my friend alex and she told me about this little waterfall thing that i can scramble down to so
i hope it's not too crazy of a scramble but um it looked really beautiful and kind of magical
so let's go let's check it out let's breathe just a little deeper what do we got here
oh my gosh what that's beautiful yes yes
gotta lose
so i'm gonna see if i can check in at this cute little uh bnb that i booked i
want a little nap before i go out again for sunset this is so cute though take a look
this house is adorable here's my bathroom and then here's my bedroom she made me homemade cookies too
it's a really cute house with a female owner i love that i really like these kinds of places
it's a better breakfast it's right in town i'm gonna take a nap because i'm exhausted
three days later really beautiful nap i needed that so much after waking up at five this morning
and as i'm getting ready for my next little hike here i was thinking a little bit more about like
what being an introvert sort of means to me that's my alarm so for me being introverted
is more about how i recharge and get my energy i am and always have been an outgoing person
and i do really enjoy meeting people like i did on the leg of my solo trip in new mexico
when i met those guys and we hung out at the earth ships but then i also really love my trips like in
utah where i'm like intentionally going out there by myself camping completely alone and that's what
i want i feel comfortable outside i think it's nice to be alone and i know i'm not going to see
other people and the whole point of that for me is that is like the ultimate recharge so that's
why i'm on this trip in this particular part of the world in southern idaho just because it's not
that crowded here there's a lot of opportunities for solitude and that is the beauty to me of solo
travel and why i'm trying to soak it up as much as i can before i know i won't be alone not much
this is the worst single ever
guy sounding the alarm hello
i've seen maybe four other people on this trail so nice
i love when i can get a mostly solo hike i love it thank you yeah it's cute
today i'm about to head out for a little hike but just had breakfast at the bnb that i'm at and i
really like it because she sat and like chatted with me and she said that she will sometimes go
to dinner with the solo female travelers who come through i definitely recommend this one
the fillmore inn it's super cute okay time to go got in the car it's definitely colder
than yesterday and very mixed weather i hope that it's nice where i'm going i've arrived
this is a beautiful canyon the color of this water reminds me a little bit of lake tahoe
it's kind of windy but i think i'm going to risk a flight
there is a little trail down to the water so
let's take a walk and see the blue water up close all right
just the way down
now i'm in it i'm in the thicket i think i got about a half mile
left some kind of people on the trail told me to get to that like baby blue water
got to the baby blue water but i seem to have gotten here just in time for the wind
to pick up and to miss any possibility of seeing the sunshine on it which sucks
okay i'm gonna just wait and keep the faith because this
if it just moves over here i'll get sunshine oh come on come on come on let's go that way
five minutes later you guys it's like full sun now i was so sure that i was not gonna
get to see this wow that is so pretty oh my god now it's like it was never cloudy amazing
wow
um
my identity for so long has been tied up in doing these solo trips it's been 10 years since i first
started traveling by myself i've had a little bit of an identity crisis actually since uh becoming
pregnant just trying to figure out um who am i gonna be moving forward but i think i'm gonna be
you know not like a regular mom i'm gonna be cool mom i really want to just take him
around and show him all the cool spots and that adventures are fun and that nature is beautiful
it won't be worse it'll just be different it might be better so i'm excited for that but this is
a really nice way to celebrate sort of being on my own one of my last big solo trips
okay i worked up an appetite so i'm at this barbecue place it's supposed to be pretty good
the one thing that kind of doesn't get easier is eating alone when i'm traveling by myself it
used to really bother me and i would really only get takeout but it's not i don't know
it's fine i can go sit in a restaurant and just enjoy my own company my biggest thing i try to
do is not just be in my phone the whole time and to actually like look around take it in and
i don't know it's not that big of a deal it used to be a big deal but got to the hotel to check in
it's this cute little spot in hagerman so i don't have to go all the way back to twin falls
and look at the cute little setup they left i love lacroix and oh my gosh i'm definitely
gonna eat some of those we are so excited to have you stay with us that is so cute
there's little candies tucked away everywhere very cute very very cute
i've headed to this balanced rock park there's only like one other car away in the distance
so nice and here we have the rock itself
getting a drone has made me such a lazy ass i don't even have to hike up there i just flew
up there i know what i was thinking on my drive home how nice it is when you're by yourself that
you can just decide that you want to go and come as you please and just do all the things
on your own time no one's disappointed i just love that and i love traveling with garrett
with friends and meeting cool people but when it comes down to it when you're by yourself
the moment that you're done with something you can be done and i love that good morning from
twin falls i'm about to head out go back home now but i wanted to stop by here one more time
and see this beautiful snake river that i've been traveling along this whole few days this has been
such a wonderful place to have solitude it's not crowded at all and it's just been so beautiful and
really cool meeting people on the trail but then also spending most of this time alone and enjoying
my own company next time i see you guys we'll be in reno getting ready for baby see you then