I’ve run the L.A. marathon twice, and one day I want to run an ultra marathon across the Sahara desert.
In college I created and taught a course on the anti-institutional subtext of the 7th Harry Potter novel.
My best friend and I have the exact same birthday and we’ve celebrated all but two of them together since we were 14.
Hey there!
I figured it might be nice if I tell you a little bit about myself, since I completely believe that any material you find on the internet is only as good as it’s source! So, here goes…
Although I was raised in Las Vegas, my family moved to Southern California when I was 12 and I’ve called it home ever since. LA is my favorite city in the United States (San Diego is a close second) and anytime I’m home, I HAVE to eat two things: 1. an In-N-Out cheeseburger (even though I’m a super health nut, I just can’t give these up!) and 2. the Trust Me order at Sugarfish (if you recommend a BETTER sushi restaurant in LA to me for roughly the same price I will literally buy you a roundtrip plane ticket anywhere in the world… THAT’S how confident I am that it’s the best).
I was bitten by the travel bug on my first trip out of the country when I was 19 years old. Even though it was my first time I left for an entire year and it’s still one of the best decisions I ever made. I lived and traveled around Europe and spent the most incredible and growth-inducing month in Thailand on my own.
Since coming back from that trip I’ve been obsessed with travel. I spent all my time figuring out how to travel with no money because I was a broke college student and – to the surprise of everyone – I succeeded. I read about travel hacking and IMMEDIATELY jumped on that, which ended up funding my travels for almost 4 years. And in the summer, between semesters, I found odd jobs abroad as an au pair.
I graduated from UCR with a B.A. in English and only one goal in mind: to see the world. I spent almost a year trying to find a job that a 22-year-old recent college graduate could do online with no tech experience and an English degree. When I finally found one (remote dissertation editor), I bought a one-way ticket out of the country.
That was 2 years ago (July 18, 2017). I’ve since traveled to over 56 different countries, taking advantage of any opportunity that presented itself to me: I wrote articles for a Maldivian travel magazine in exchange for free accommodation at several luxury resorts, I worked as an English conversation specialist in Malta for 2 weeks (fancy way of saying I spent 2 free weeks in Malta in exchange for talking to people who wanted to practice their English), I learned photography and traveled with a #bossbabe Instagram influencer for a couple of months, I self-published an e-book on how to travel when you’re broke and, most recently, I founded a company dedicated to reducing single-use plastic waste in our oceans.
And this whole crazy journey led me to where I am now… Bali. I’ve been to 56 countries across 5 continents, and I can honestly say there’s no place in the world anywhere like it. I fell in love my first time in Bali and I fall in love with Bali a little more every day. And it’s because I love this place so much that I wanted the main focus of this blog to be about Bali. I have a ton of travel experience and knowledge from all over the world, but only Bali inspires me to share every single thing I know with others. With this travel blog I want to inspire people to travel to Bali and especially to travel to Bali with the goal of coming back home a much different person than you left.
Because, if you let it, Bali will literally change your life.
Love,
Kate
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