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The Best and Worst Things About Living in a Hostel, As Told By RuPaul’s Drag Race GIFs

This post is for a bit of a niche audience, eh?

For the past few weeks, I’ve been living and Workaway-ing in a hostel in Kuala Lumpur. Hostel life is definitely a unique experience, whether you’re working for accommodation or just staying for a few nights. Every hostel is different, and every night is different depending on the people that are staying for the night, but in general, you’ll find great things (and not so great things) at every hostel. To make things fun, I added GIFs from Drag Race. No reason. I just miss watching Drag Race every week.

All images are via RuPaul’s Drag Race, in case you were not aware. Just feel like I had to say it.

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review: vcr coffee

Review: VCR

I’ve been working remotely for the past year and a half, so I’m always looking for quality coffee shops that allow me to set up shop and enjoy a good drink while I work. So when I saw a KindMeal deal at VCR, I jumped on the opportunity. KindMeal offers 25% off for a Portobello Mushroom Quiche and Cappuccino.

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KindMeal is a must-have app for vegetarians in Malaysia

KindMeal Is a Must-Have App for Vegetarians in Malaysia

Southeast Asia is a foodie’s paradise, but I have to admit, I was a little nervous to start eating street food, or any type of food, as a vegetarian. I have been a vegetarian for close to four years now, and love my meat-free lifestyle. I have to admit that when I meet other vegetarians, or hear that a friend has cut meat out of their life, I do a little happy dance!

Vegetarian travelers, never fear. I have had no problems sticking to meat-free meals while in Southeast Asia. I’m happy to say that Kuala Lumpur (where I will be staying for the next few weeks) has been the easiest place to eat vegetarian in Southeast Asia. Why? I have the help of a fantastic app called KindMeal.

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How Much to Budget for a Trip to

How Much To Budget For A Trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia

Let’s make a budget! Sexy! Exciting! Totally going to go as planned!

Budgeting isn’t fun, but it’s essential for beat, broke backpackers like me. Hindsight is 20/20 and about $20 more than I thought I was going to have to pay to visit Angkor Wat. I loved Siem Reap, Cambodians are super sweet, but there were a couple hidden expenses that I would like to share with anyone making a budget. So let’s begin!

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Chiang Rai, The White Temple, And Navigating Southeast Asia as an Embarrassed American

Chiang Rai, The White Temple, and Navigating Southeast Asia as an Embarrassed American

Hey everyone! Megan here. My laptop is up and running, so I’ve been working on some posts for you all!

This post, however, is going to be a bit different. My original plan was to write posts about backpacker destinations in Southeast Asia based on the order in which I visited them. This post is more important. This post is long. This post gets into American politics. This post makes me anxious. It addresses tragedy and war and embarrassment. Just a warning. Here we go.

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Review: The Best Lush Products for Traveling

Hey friends! While I’m working on a big list of what to pack for Southeast Asia, I decided to make a quick post about what Lush products are best for traveling! If you know me personally or read my blog before I backpacked in Europe, you may know that I worked for Lush for many years and absolutely love their products. There are a lot of solid products that you can carry on, as well as products that last forever and keep you smelling fresh even on the sweatiest of travel days. Before Europe, I made a list of the products I was bringing. This time, I’m going to review the best products that I brought along.

All products below are cruelty-free, vegan, and packaged in recyclable containers.

Here we go!

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72 Hours in Bangkok; Scams, Surprises, and Everything You Need to Know Before You Go

72 Hours in Bangkok: Scams, Surprises, and All the Stuff You Need to Know Before You Go

The Grand Palace in Bangkok

The journey has begun! Andrew and I have spent about a week and a half in Southeast Asia and already have learned so much.

Our first stop was Bangkok.

It’s Bangkok! A view from the Golden Mountain.

This is Andrew’s first backpacking adventures and my first time in Thailand, so we certainly hit some bumps in the road. Luckily for you, I’m collecting all of those bumps and putting them in one place. This is all of the questions we had about Thailand, and all of the things we researched, frantically.

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We’re Going to Southeast Asia for Six Weeks. We Should Probably Chat About It.

Going to Southeast Asia would not have been possible, or even a real thought, without my best friend, Andrew. Andrew was the first person to suggest Southeast Asia to me, and about a year and a half ago, we told ourselves we would save up our money and go this summer. Now it’s happening!

andrew and I

Small freshmen children. I promise I will not be wearing any zebra tanks..anymore.

Here’s a little background on our friendship. We met the second day of college through mutual friends. We joined the same gender-inclusive fraternity together (go Phi Sigma Pi!) and lived together for two years. He is 100% my best friend and knows more about me, highs and lows, than anyone needs to know. We’ve seen it all from each other, especially first semester senior year. Yikes.

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