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Guest Post: What Happens When Travel Plans Change?

Today's guest post comes from Kate McCulley of Adventurous Kate . Kate is a solo female traveler currently exploring Southeast Asia.  She is committed to living a life of adventures, and as a result, rarely says no to a dare. But, while she's only a fraction of the way done with her trip, her plans have already changed a lot. What Happens When Travel Plans Change? Koh Lanta National Park, Thailand It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. I had an itinerary that had taken me months to perfect, taking me through ten Southeast Asian countries over the course of seven months. And instead of exploring the villages surrounding Pakse in Southern Laos, as my schedule had dictated, I was sunning myself on the pristine beaches of Thailand’s Andaman Coast. How the hell did that happen? You could say that I was craving a hot and sunny beach after the chilly mountains of northern Thailand. Or that I didn’t really feel like going to Laos just yet. Both were true. But also… I met a gu...

Take This Breathtaking Train Across Canada For Only $400

Canada is amazing! It quickly became one of my favourite countries in the entire world. While there’s so much to see across every province, Canada is huge, and can get quite expensive for a backpacker! That was until I discovered a way to travel across most of the country for only $400. Last year I was lucky to get a Canadian Working Holiday Visa, valid for one year from my home country of Sweden. 
I packed my bags and started my journey in Newfoundland, falling in love with the culture right from the start. From Newfoundland I took a bus to Montreal to meet up with my boyfriend for our journey across Canada. We wanted to go from Montreal to Edmonton where we thought of settling down for a while. We looked at different alternatives on how to get there, but we knew that there was so much more between MontrĂ©al and Ed...