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.
Sam Grubb@hacks4pancakes the other day I found my copy of Lonely Planet Japan and remembered how I used that every day to figure out what to see back in 2008 before smart phones international were really a thing (at least for us college kids). Wild to think I’d just read a paragraph in the book and be like ‘whelp let’s hope it’s as described!’