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A normal girl living her biggest, messiest dreams.

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These are my unfiltered adventures, musings and stories.
I talk about birds, coffee and overcoming personal fears too much.

100
ish countries
7
continents
14
odd years
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My recent adventures

A big life update: join me in the Arctic

Let me help your travel dreams come true by connecting you with an Arctic adventure

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Takaka: a golden getaway to Golden Bay

This remote corner of New Zealand packs a punch

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How the Heaphy Track become my new favorite Great Walk

Predatory snails, prehistoric-looking rare birds, and a flat track? Count me in!

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My favorite stories

All the mean, nasty and godawful hateful things people say to me online

Guys, why do people troll on the internet? Why are blogger hate comments ...
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Solo and single in the most romantic place in the world

How glossy and polished is the travel industry today? Well, I suppose it's ...
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A broken robot: the face of a burnout

My whole life I’ve always been told that my face reads like an ...
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More inspirational stories

Where I screwed up big time

That one time I crashed a scooter in Bali

A week ago I found myself upside down in a ditch full of ...
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Getting Naked in Istanbul

**Warning this post borders on the TMI, but I thought it was too ...
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This might be my funniest story of all time

Guys, the funniest thing happened to me the other day. Now, I know I ...
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The solo female travel blogger ✈️ Author of “Houseplants & Design” 🪴 Friend of kākāpō and the girl with the whales 🐳 Polar guide ❄️

Liz Carlson☀️Young Adventuress
Memories from one of my favorite places on earth 🍁 the Torngat Mountains in Labrador with @adventure.canada
Sending massive love and props to my friends @proj Sending massive love and props to my friends @projectjonahnz who are currently doing the hard mahi to rescue a group of pilot whales that have stranded on Farewell Spit. New Zealand has some of the highest stranding rates in the world, and Farewell Spit is a hotspot for them. I’m about to fly out to Antarctica otherwise I’d be up there helping. Follow @projectjonahnz and their FB page for updates and see if you can help out, even if it’s just donating. We almost wiped whales off the face of the earth in the last century. It’s time to pull our weight and help when we can 🐳 photo from the last whale stranding I was at in Farewell Spit.
Officially a New Zealand citizen! Swore some oaths Officially a New Zealand citizen! Swore some oaths, sang some songs, received a baby native tree to plant, still can’t believe it after all these years of living and loving Aotearoa. Ngā mihi! What an honor ❤️ Kei ō ringaringa te ao ❤️
Little lamb season in New Zealand is the best seas Little lamb season in New Zealand is the best season 🐑❤️
“For just one time I would take the Northwest Pa “For just one time I would take the Northwest Passage, to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea…” . I can’t look at photos from my time sailing the Northwest Passage with @adventure.canada without this Stan Rogers song meandering through my mind. What an adventure. I’m back on shore after three months at sea, with thousands of nautical miles exploring from St. John’s, Newfoundland to the top of the Arctic and back again under my belt. How is this my life? . Slowly I’m storing these incredible memories away, stories to be told with friends over beers about bears, belugas, ice, swells, songs and grins and just so many adventures and misadventures. So many RAW files to edit. So many reels to cut. So many stories to tap out with my fingers. You know, now that I can feel them again. Where to begin? . I’ll pick this simple day on the western shores of the Boothia Peninsula, around 70°N in the late afternoon. Not a hint of wind. Two polar bears roaming the faraway shores, diverting our landing. The sky slowly turning pink as I sat on my zodiac while the passengers were off hiking, laughing with my friends, far from any mobile coverage or real-life responsibilities. I’ve got mud on my knees and salt in my hair. And I’m just. so. freaking. happy.
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Who is Young Adventuress?

Hi, I'm Liz, and I got my first taste for traveling when I was 16 years old. On my own, 12 years and 50 something countries later, my wanderlust has only grown and the list of countries I want to visit longer. After living in Spain for the past few years and returning home for a stint, I then quit my job and moved to New Zealand and I've been here ever since. Follow my misadventures as I wander, eat, and photograph my way around the world

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