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.
maswan@hacks4pancakes
When I started travelling lots for work, my then boss gave the advice of: "credit card and passport, the rest you can sort out at the airport". Phone, laptop, visa (if needed) is what I'll add to that.
Sometimes it is tiring, but on the other hand it is neat to be confident that I can turn up next week in at least half of the world and expect things will work out just fine.
@maswan yea lack of visa and supporting docs can be the end to a trip very fast