Eleea Navarro

I’ve seen this trend everywhere, but putting mine together was such a trip down memory lane!🥹✈️

I grew up in a small country town with a family that never even took a local family holiday. My beautiful Mum still hasn’t left Australia. Travel definitely wasn’t the norm for us, but for some reason, I always had huge dreams of exploring the world.

I actually went on my first overseas trip with my friend’s family when I was 16 and it was so eye opening.

But my life really changed when I got brave enough to start travelling solo, which began with my first trip to Japan when I was still a teenager.

That 3-week trip had its funny little errors, but it was also absolutely perfect. I had so many adventures, gained so much confidence and met one of my best friends in the whole world (my favourite Frenchie!).

If it hadn’t gone so well, I don’t know if I’d have backpacked so much since, but I’m glad I’ll never know that version of my life.

Travel is wonderful, but let’s be honest, it is almost never the perfect timing or without anxiety about spending the money, stress about sacrificing the time, or fear of what you’re about to experience when you touchdown somewhere totally new, especially all by yourself.

And solo travel has huge pros and cons too. I truly love it, but it can be pretty tough at times through illness, injuries, challenges and loneliness. Especially when you’re on the road for months and months.

But I am so, so grateful that my wish I left in Tokyo to have more adventures came true, because it changed my whole life.

I’ve fallen in love, met special friends, gotten incredible jobs, tested my limits, written hundreds of songs in #TheTravelCollection, and had lucky moments beyond my wildest imagination.

I’ve been incredibly blessed with some of the ways I’ve tied travel into my life, but in general, my motto is just: work hard, live cheap, travel cheap, travel often☺️

47 countries later, the privilege to see the world is something I never want to take for granted, and I don’t. I’m excited to keep chasing adventure forever💙🗺️✨

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