My 20 Best Adventures in 20 Years of Solo World Travels One of the most common questions people ask me when they find out I’ve been traveling the world for several years is – What was your best / most interesting / craziest experience? I always have a very hard time trying to answer that …
My 10 Best Travel Tips of 2015 on LashWorldTour In 2015 my travels spanned half the globe. After exploring New Zealand’s South Island in January, I next flew to Australia for one month, then on to Bali and Malaysia in SE Asia for two months before crossing the Pacific to the USA. I ended up …
NEWS: My Guest Post on Hopscotch The Globe This week I’m excited to announce that one of my travel stories is being featured on Hopscotch the Globe travel blog. It’s run by my fellow travel blogger, all around fun & fabulous girl, and Canadian travel chic whom I’ve long admired, Kristen Sarah. Her award-winning site …
LashWorldTour NEWS: My Guest Post is on HikeBikeTravel Lovely Leigh McAdam invited me to guest post on her aptly named travel blog, HikeBikeTravel. As you can tell from the title, Leigh and I have a lot in common! For her travel adventure site, I’ve written the story of my solo ascent of volcanic Mt Semeru …
TRAVEL TIPS: How to Extend an Indonesian Tourist or Social Visa In my Guide to Indonesian Visa Options I detail the three types of visas available to travelers to Indonesia. In brief, they are Visa On Arrival, Tourist Visa and Social Visa. Not surprisingly, each has its own particular rules for extensions. Before you head …
TRAVEL TIPS: Guide to Indonesian Visa Options Recently I’ve met a lot of travelers who don’t know that it’s quite easy to visit Indonesia for 6 months at a time, without leaving the country. Many are veteran travelers who have been moving around Asia for many years, even many decades. But even they don’t know …
PHOTO GALLERY: Stunning Mt Bromo Volcano – Java Indonesia Volcanic Mt Bromo is one of Java, Indonesia’s primary tourist attractions. Both domestic and international travelers list Bromo at the top of their agendas. One reason it’s so popular is its super easy access. Let’s face it, most volcanoes are not very easy to reach. But …
PHOTO GALLERY: Kawah Ijen Volcano – Java – Indonesia Ijen Volcano lies in eastern Java. It’s famous for its startling milky-green crater lake & the collection of sulfur, which is carried out inside the crater. Climbing up the volcano’s steep trail to the crater rim is a popular excursion for travelers. I teamed up with …
All About Lombok Indonesia Lombok island lies just east of it’s more famous and glamorous neighbor, Bali. Roughly the same size as Bali, Lombok is much quieter, laid-back and strikingly less developed than bustling Bali. I liken it to Bali’s ‘back-water’. Like most of Indonesia’s main islands, Lombok is a mountainous volcanic island full of …
Travel Tips for Visiting Java Indonesia What to see and do in Java: “Visit Java for its scenery, natural wonders and cultural highlights. Skip the towns.” Java has lots of beautiful natural scenery, including exotic volcanoes, steeply terraced rice fields, flat rice fields, wide sweeping beaches, national parks, forests, plantations and mountains. Java is also …
Hi! I'm Lash, an American nomadic world traveler who's been traveling solo since 1998. I’m passionate about traveling the world nomadically and then sharing it all with you. I hope to inspire you to travel the world, to entertain you with tales from the road, and to help you reach your travel dreams. Welcome! 
