It's like coming home to be able to type this post here and connect with you all after such a long time of being away.

My poor computer must be feeling incredible lonely as I was unable to charge it for almost my entire journey in the camper van! (More on that later...)

A couple of months ago I got myself all rattled (yes, I posted on it) about the volcano threatening imminent doom in Bali, where my home is. Time passed and the skies stayed blue, the earth stopped shaking (as much) and everything seemed like normal. Life goes on.

Here's a little sample of what's going on that's causing these change in travel plans, thanks to Time magazine's photo

Time came for a switch up in routine and I ended up on a plane, flying South to NZ for some following up with a life I started down there not so long before Bali stole my heart.

If you've read my posts before you might already know about my camper van, Samwise (name from LOTR origin, yes, I am a nerd) ... see, Samwise had a little bit of trouble being alone for so many months and some rats decided to start a party inside him.

While I was in Bali falling in love with the sunshine and writing to you all about it, Samwise was getting frisky with some ratty individuals who were having a blast ripping through my personal belongings.

That's life. Loss is all part of the plan so I moved past the hurt in my chest of losing my possessions and flew back to NZ to help see Samwise through his darkened days.

After Samwise was in tip top condition, I decided to take him for a spin through the South Island of New Zealand (the beauty of that country is just unbelievable, feels like a dream!)

So, for the last 5 weeks, I have been playing hookey, running around with Samwise, bathing in ice cold glacier waters...

Sleeping on beaches...

And eating delicious vegan meals from fresh veggies I picked up along the way and made in my tiny little van kitchen...

Unfortunately/fortunately electricity was not part of that situation.

My plan was to fly back to Bali after my trip but see, Mother Earth had another plan and with her rocking and rolling, the volcano started going off, causing my flight back home to be canceled.

Samwise was switching owners (thankfully because this time I was not about to leave him alone!) That meant that I could either stay with some friends in NZ and wait it out (which I would have done) but, my dad was coming to see me for Christmas and his flight was also canceled so that meant basically a repeat of mom coming to HK, and I was not going to have another crazy story like that.

With that, we booked flights into Bangkok.

So, now my friends, I am in Thailand with my dad, running around yet again waiting to be able to go back to Bali but also wanting to experience the lovely, fun, beautiful country that I am blessed to be in!

That being said friends, I might not be able to be back to normal and definitely cannot take on the contest right now, but I can get some amazing stories to share with you and get this I will be staying in hotels with wifi and electricity so someone slap me if I don't check in here and there at least ;)

I miss you!

Sending you love!

XO,
😘

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