Lesley Carhart 
The only catastrophe of this cross hemisphere trip so far is that I bought a $100 bottle of gin at ATLAS to bring home and the paper bag disintegrated in the rain and it shattered before I could even get in a cab. I guess I’m buying gin in Australia 🤷🏻♀️🍸😢
If you want to see the utter insanity of me traversing / biking / eating across a hemisphere solo (without barely sleeping), it’s on my Instagram.
I have this mantra of whenever anyone sends me anywhere, I just basically don’t sleep for days so I can see and do everything physically possible alone.
I cannot describe the exhausted I am as usual... I still wake up to work out at the gym before work, and then walk 15-20k steps a day outside work. I have zero clue where I’ll do laundry.
My checklist to go to another country alone now basically consists of only:
where do I sleep to get to work
will my phone sorta go
what visa do I need
what language do they speak
how to not get arrested
five minutes on Viator tours page on the plane
do I need a coat
which wall wort for usb c
I don’t really bother to look up safety because everyone thinks their city or town is the most dangerous, and I would never go anywhere.
I have all the rideshare apps and mobile pay 🤷🏻♀️🍸so I don’t change money in advance or anything
This is the way.
MostlyBlindGamer@hacks4pancakes you’ve touched on a few things I love about living in the future:
* one cable does everything
* we all speak Apple, regardless of our actual languages
* money is a virtual construct
* glass rectangles are magic
* one cable does everything
* we all speak Apple, regardless of our actual languages
* money is a virtual construct
* glass rectangles are magic
@MostlyBlindGamer there’s a lot of dystopia but smartphones have made international travel so much easier, especially if your carrier does free international roaming
Ash@hacks4pancakes @MostlyBlindGamer I recently emigrated back to Australia from the US. Getting a local esim was the first thing I did, using local wifi, even if you don't have basic international roaming.
Last time I visited 6 years prior, I bought a physical micro-sim at a local supermarket.
Just keeps getting easier.
@ashteranic @hacks4pancakes there’s even an app to get eSIMs for travel.
@MostlyBlindGamer @ashteranic my carrier works in 179 countries without me doing anything. It’s insane. I remember having this buy burners
@hacks4pancakes @ashteranic “works” or “works cheaply?”
Assuming we’re mostly doing VoIP anyway, a data-only eSIM still often makes a lot of sense.
@MostlyBlindGamer @ashteranic it just works. I don’t pay any extra.
@hacks4pancakes @MostlyBlindGamer Yeah, to be clear, my US phone number worked just fine when I landed, but the data rates were a bit steep since I hadn't added any international data blocks.
But emigrating made the requirement for a local phone number a bit necessary. Pity I couldn't afford to keep my US number, there's been a handful of US service accounts that have been unable to cope with international numbers (Looking at you IRS and my HSA bank *shakes fist* )