Becoming a travel blogger: Travelling solo for 100 days!

Travelling solo for 100 consecutive days

I might never do it if travelling solo for 100 consecutive days is not a good reason to provide my website with a little overview post. But don’t worry because here is another big Yentl travelling post. Let’s ignore that it’s been under 75 days since my last post! And let’s all be happy that I’m way better at providing you with daily vlogs, so it’s not that I’ve disappeared! I do have to admit that when I typed 75 days, it spooked me. Seventy-five days are long, but here we are at 100 days. If you had told me this a few years ago, I’d laugh and say, ‘well, it might just be the dream’. But here I am, and it looks like it will stay that way for a while.

So, travelling solo for 100 consecutive days. Well, what does a person say after all of that? That I am feeling great? Or I’ve never enjoyed things as much as I do right now? How is it even possible that I waited so long to do this? Or that the world we live in is lovely? In the last blog, after two weeks of travelling, I needed to figure out where to start, and after 100 days, that’s even worse! Sorry, entirely my fault; I got carried away a little! Anyway, I’m still making the vlogs and videos, and I’m thrilled with all the lovely comments from the people who (try to) follow where I am. So that’s something 🙂

The hostels while travelling!

Okay, back to blogging! One hundred days and 99 nights. Well, that is something to talk about, for sure! That is, so far, 80 nights in 28 different hostels. Yes, 28 hostels, haha; how do I even start explaining that? It begins with the most fantastic places and goes to the most horrifying. But we backpackers always make the best of it! Even though it is literally and figuratively turning a blind eye now and then.

Sometimes you need clarification while showering because hot water is coming from the tap. Sometimes the mess in the rooms is worse than in my rehearsal room and my bedroom at home combined, which means something! Other times you’ll be happy that the YouTube video you want to watch on the WiFi loaded faster than 2 minutes. That’s only when you haven’t already exceeded the standard limit of 500MB.

Some of those hostels here have not had a clean for years. It’s not all that bad, most hostels are full of cool people, and that’s the most important thing. We take those noisy people who scream all night (they call it talking) to each other with it. The drunk guys also had to switch on the light in the room several times between 3 am and 6 am, but okay, you get used to that.

Admittedly, my favourite will be the plastic bags of the people who check out early. It must be a strange feeling when you want to check out at 6 in the morning and find out at 5:30 that you forgot to pack your backpack the night before. Oh yeah, remember to open and close that zipper regularly. Not to mention waving through the room with your flashlight! To be honest, I love it. Not because of what they do, but because I am travelling! If there’s one thing you can get me out of my sleep for, it’s that.

I was travelling solo in the Australian Outback.

Then we also had the 15 nights that I slept in my campervan while making my 6000km road trip on the west coast of Australia. That was a long day, especially since the Outback can look repetitive after a while. It was extraordinary. When was the last time you drove 950km alone in the car in one day?

Oh well, the best was still the times I got stuck in deep sand in the middle of the Australian Outback (they don’t have paved roads everywhere) and had to wait 3 hours in the Australian heat with no shade for someone to pull me out? Wow, those were great days. But also worth it; I would do it again if it would not cost me double the budget for that month. And then, even better, there are still the four nights I spent on the plane, train or bus. Not that I slept one of those nights, but hey, it was dark outside, so they count.

Travelling solo for 100 consecutive days.

It doesn’t feel like I’ve been gone that long. After a while, you subconsciously separate the different periods in the journey. For example, my trip to Thailand or Cambodia is not from this trip. You sometimes tell someone you have been there once, and only later do you realize it was actually on this trip. I only notice that it is 100 days further when you have to buy shampoo or toothpaste for the third time on the road or when you see that some people you met on the way have already returned home. My four empty cans of sunscreen are worth mentioning; that’s more than my entire life together before this trip! Keep it up, Australia, with this weather, please!

As with most things, you get used to your situation after a while. It sounds negative, but it isn’t at all. After 100 days of travelling around, you have seen many things and are no longer surprised by some of the events around you. I don’t want to generalize here because some people still manage to do something unusual! You come across some of the weirdest things. The most positive thing about getting used to travelling is that you immediately find yourself at home every time you come to a new place. Once you know where the kitchen and bathroom are, you are at home. Quickly go out to get to know some people; before you know it, you are booking two extra nights at the reception.

See you later!

Anyway, that’ll be it for tonight! It’s getting late here, and you never know what day 101 will bring! (But you must knock on 101 because the bell doesn’t work!). The next day is often as big a surprise for me as it is for you. Therefore, I sleep enough as I start each day rested. In saying that, thank you for reading and for following along! I don’t spend that much time on social media (or technology in general), but I’m still reading through the comments or likes now and then, and I love that! 🙂 An extra shoutout to those who have called me several times over the past 100 days and keep in touch regularly. With all that travelling alone, I do appreciate it a lot!

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