how to survive

After living out of a pack for a month you come to learn what the best ways to survive are.
And now I am here to share with all of you future travelers.
Or just curious stalkers.

>Baby wipes. BABY WIPES! Sometimes ya just get rull sweaty and gross and need to take a shower. But sometimes there's not a shower. At least not a good one. So welcome the wipes. They are bliss.

>Body spray. For somewhat the same reason as the first one. Sometimes ya just stink and all your clean clothes are mushed in with your dirty clothes and it's no good. Spritz on a little sweet blossom and you're good to go.

>Pick a theme song. We had to make sure to listen to Bright by Echosmith at least once a day to soothe our homesickness and frustrations. And we were totally those girls that walked around a foreign town singing our guts out. Just to feel more secure in ourselves of course.

>Don't eat like it's a vacation!!! We all do it....eat a bunch of junk because we're on vacation. But I tell you now...NO! If you are going to be gone for more than two days, try to eat a little healthy. I'm pretty sure that I was slowly dying because the only food we were eating was pastries and sugar. When we spent a day crawling through town looking for a measly fruit cup to buy we knew it was bad. Don't let it get that far.

>If you're a tourist just be one. The times we enjoyed the places we were in the most was when we were being a tourist. Ride the big red buses carrying people with their cameras and selfie sticks around. Take the walking tours with all of the other foreigners. Rock your tourist-ness and actually learn about where you are at. Standing in the middle of a crowded street staring at a map with your selfie stick hanging out of your pocket is ideal.

venice

The last stop of the trip was Venice.
This city also happened to be our absolute favorite.
Aside from the humidity, it was a dream come true.
The crowds weren't too crazy, the story of Venice is amazing, and there was pretty water.
Gross, but pretty.
To start off, we walked from the train station to our campsite for 3 miles with our packs on.
Yeah, I'd say we were pretty legit.
It's not easy carrying your house on your back for that long.
I don't know how turtles do it.
The next day we took a walking tour of the city and learned all of the cool stories behind the floating city.
It was pretty awesome.
This led to us exploring most of the inches of the city.
Not every inch.
We even spent a day riding water buses and heading over to the island of Burano with all of the beautiful houses.
It was the perfect end to the trip.
Highly recommended by yours truly.

rome

Imma have to be honest and say that Rome was the least favorite.
Which is sad because I was pretty excited for it.
But I didn't appreciate the people or our train that caught on fire.
(I didn't get travel insurance but if I had I'm pretty sure that wouldn't have been covered...)
However, we tried to make the most out of our stay and did the right thing to do when you're a tourist-hop on the big red sightseeing bus.
This took us all around town and dropped us off at every hoard of people.
The Colosseum was definitely the highlight of the place.
And I know that because that's pretty much all I took pictures of.
Also I tried a new camera setting which makes everything look like a child's toy.
Enjoy....